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| Released | 26 April 2013 | |||
| Recorded | 2012 | |||
| Studio | The Tracking Room, Anarchy Studios and Rainbow Recorders, Nashville, Tennessee, US | |||
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| Length | 57:06 | |||
| Label | earMUSIC | |||
| Producer | Bob Ezrin | |||
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Now What?! is the 19th studio album by English rock band Deep Purple. It was released on 26 April 2013[2] and produced by Bob Ezrin. A dedicated official web site was also created by the band to post updates about the album. It was the band's first studio album in over seven years as Deep Purple's previous studio album, Rapture of the Deep, was released in late 2005.
On 26 February 2013, the album's title was announced.[3] Additionally a new single featuring "Hell to Pay" and "All the Time in the World" was released in both CD and vinyl formats on 29 March 2013.[4] On 6 May 2013 the band confirmed that a new single "Vincent Price" would be released on 7 June as download, CD single and 7" transparent vinyl. The single would also include the previously unreleased song "First Sign of Madness", two tracks from the now unavailable Rapture of the Deep limited edition and the track's video-clip.[5]
The songs "Uncommon Man" and "Above and Beyond", which includes the lyrics "Souls having touched are forever entwined", are dedicated to founding member Jon Lord who died in July 2012. "Uncommon Man" is partly inspired by the classical composition "Fanfare for the Common Man", and features a synthesizer-generated fanfare theme composed by Don Airey.
- ^ "DEEP PURPLE - HELL TO PAY". Dutchcharts.nl.
- ^ "DEEP PURPLE: New Album Release Date Confirmed, Dedicated Web Site Launched". Blabbermouth.net. Roadrunner Records. 12 December 2012. Retrieved 12 December 2012.
- ^ "Deep Purple: New Album Title Revealed". Blabbermouth.net. Roadrunner Records. 26 February 2013. Retrieved 26 February 2013.
- ^ "Deep Purple to Release NOW What?! Album in April; Double A-Side Single Due March 29th". Bravewords.com. Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles. 26 February 2013. Retrieved 26 February 2013.
- ^ "Deep Purple Now What?! - News: Deep Purple Reveal The New Single "Vincent Price" While The Album Now What ?! Enters The German Charts At #1". Deeppurple-nowwhat.com. 6 May 2013. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 13 May 2013.