Bass player Arthur Grant died on the 31st August 2026.
Original guitarist Ritchie Blackmore performed with Deep Purple for the first time in 33 years at the Jones Beach Theater in Wantagh, New York on 12 August 2026, joining them for ” Smoke on the Water ” during the encore.
However, Sony Music fully consolidated global digital distribution rights in mid-August 2026, and copyright notices for Queen releases now mention both Queen Productions (a Sony-owned international holder of Queen recording copyrights) and Hollywood Records in all territories.
On 24 July 2026, Genesis announced the remastered re-release of their very first album From Genesis to Revelation to mark the band’s 60th anniversary. The album will include 2026 interviews with Banks, Gabriel and Rutherford, never-before heard demos, previously unreleased material and a 68-page illustrated book with contributions from Banks,…
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Deep Purple’s twenty-fourth studio album, SPLAT! , was released on 3 July 2026. The band will support the album by embarking on a North American tour with 24 dates through August and September 2026, with special guests Kansas and Jefferson Starship , followed by a tour Europe in the summer…
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Sony Music assumed international distribution rights on 1 July 2026, with new physical re-releases bearing the Columbia Records logo.
In June 2026, shortly before the release of SPLAT! , Paice confirmed that the band will likely begin working on a twenty-fifth studio album in 2027.
In a May 2026 interview, Fripp stated that the rumoured new album never came to fruition, that he would not play live again, and that King Crimson’s career was over for good.
From April to May 2026 Blind Illusion entered the studio to record their fourth studio album, titled Crushing The Universe with Tom Gears (Nefarious, Ex-Blind Illusion) as producer.
In May 2026, the band announced The Rats in a Cage Tour, a North American arena tour running September through November 2026 to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness .