Deep Purple will start working on new material in 2027
Author Benedetta Baldin - 21.6.2026
Ian Paice, the drummer for Deep Purple, discussed the band’s upcoming album, “Splat!” in a recent interview with the Rockonteurs podcast, as per Blabbermouth. The album will be available on earMUSIC on July 3. Producer Bob Ezrin, who has produced every Deep Purple album since 2013’s “Now What?!” is working with the band for the sixth time. Paice made this statement following the reading of a quotation from Ezrin by podcast co-host Gary Kemp, in which the renowned producer stated that he hoped to collaborate with Deep Purple for “a very long time”.
Well, that’s already being discussed for… This [2026] is a heavy touring year — it’s almost 100 shows or something — so next year [2027] won’t be the same. You can’t keep doing it that way. So if you have any ideas, making a record’s easy. If you don’t have ideas, making a record’s impossible. So getting together, and if we find we have some ideas we all like, there’s no reason why we shouldn’t put together another record sometime next year. It’s the nature of things. It’s all about ideas. You can be an actor, but if the guy hasn’t written a screenplay, you’ve got nothing to say.
When asked how Deep Purple members write music these days, Paice responded as follows.
Everybody comes in with a couple of basic notions of something that they probably woke up in the middle of the night and said, ‘Oh, that sounds good.’ And one person will start something. Now, if it’s interesting, the other guys will join in. If it’s not interesting, there’s a deathly silence and somebody else starts something. The amazing thing with the whole process is you go in in the morning and you’ve got nothing, and you come out after five, six hours’ work and you got two or three really nice somethings. And that’s what keeps it working for the next day. ‘Okay, that was a really good day.’ But you don’t get three good ideas every day. The first day, all these things you’ve had loitering in your mind, they come to the fore. So next day, there aren’t that many ideas, so it becomes a little more difficult as you go through. But after 10 days, you’ve probably got a lot more than you can put on an album in the way of ideas, but you gotta then separate the wheat from the chaff.
When asked if Deep Purple captures every writing session in real time, Paice responded as follows.
Oh, yeah, you capture everything. ‘Cause you may only play something once as a jam, and it’s gone. So if you’ve caught it and say, ‘Well, there was something good five minutes ago,’ and then you take that and you see if you can go further with it. And so it’s that process of trial and error.
When you start something, everything you do is the best thing that’s ever been written, ’cause you’re all excited about it, the next day you go, ‘What a piece of crap.’ But it’s always been that way. We never had one dedicated songwriter. So it becomes out of the influence of the five people. Initially the four, because Ian’s there noting all the atmosphere and what the emotions of it are.
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