Smashing Pumpkins have finished recording their new album

Smashing Pumpkins have wrapped up their 12^th studio album, according to Pumpkins guitarist Jeff Schroeder, who called the upcoming effort ‘big and epic’ in a recent interview with Audio Ink Radio.

In October 2020, Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan announced via YouTube that the as-of-yet untitled album would be a follow up to 1995’s “Mellon Collie” and the “Infinite Sadness” and 2000’s “Machina”, describing it as ‘kind of like a rock opera.’ The album presumably wraps a trilogy of music that Corgan began writing after Smashing Pumpkins‘ landmark second album “Siamese Dream” in 1993.

Schroeder told host Anne Erickson there was ‘nothing [he] can give details on quite yet’ regarding the album, but did note that the Pumpkins had ‘some pretty exciting announcements [to make] at some point…’ though he didn’t elaborate.

I think we can safely rule out a reunion with original bassist D’Arcy Wretzky given their rocky history, but who knows. You can listen to the full interview with Jeff Schroeder below: