At 1 p.m. EST today (May 17), Deep Purple premiered the music video for “Vincent Price,” a track off their new album, Now What?!, which was released April 30 in North America via Ear Music. The “Vincent Price” clip, which you can watch below, represents the band’s first music video in more than 20 years.

The song will be released on June 7 as a download, CD single and 7-inch transparent vinyl. Here’s what you’ll get with each configuration:

7-inch single: “Vincent Price” / “First Sign Of Madness” (2013 non-album track)

CD single/digital download: “Vincent Price” / “First Sign Of Madness” (2013 non-album track) / “The Well Dressed Guitar” (from Rapture Of The Deep limited-edition CD) / “Wrong Man” (Live) (from Rapture Of The Deep limited-edition CD) / The “Vincent Price” video.

Steve Morse’s guitar solo on “Vincent Price” begins at around the 2:50 mark. The band is rounded out by Roger Glover on bass, Ian Paice on drums, Ian Gillan on vocals and Don Airey on keyboards.

Ah, yes. Vincent Price!

The biggest names in hard-rock and heavy-metal gathered at Club Nokia in Los Angeles May 2, 2013, for the fifth annual Revolver Golden Gods Award Show. During the event, Revolver paid tribute to some of the fallen heroes of the heavy-music community. Now you can watch the video below. Rest in peace.

Deep Purple’s 19th studio album — Now What?! — came out today, April 30, in North America.

Three songs from the new album, which is available on iTunes, are being streamed on YouTube. They are “Hell to Pay,” “All the Time in the World” and the very recently posted “Vincent Price,” which you can check out below.

Be sure to tell us what you think of the song in the comments!

Also be sure take our poll and vote for the best Deep Purple song of all time! You can find our Deep Purple poll right here.

While you’re at it, take a look back at some vintage Deep Purple in this 22-minute video from 1973, when the band performed in New York back when Ritchie Blackmore manned the six-string helm.

That spot is now occupied by Steve Morse, who can be heard on “Vincent Price.” His guitar solo begins around the 2:50 mark.

Ah, yes. Vincent Price!

With Deep Purple’s new studio album, Now What?!, waiting in the wings for its April 30 North American release, we thought we’d glance back at the classic Mark II lineup of the band — the legendary Ritchie Blackmore (guitar), Roger Glover (bass), Ian Gillan (vocals), Ian Paice (drums) and Jon Lord (keyboards) — tearing it up, live in New York in 1973.

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The video’s title calls it a “Full Concert.” And while that’s not quite accurate, the clip does represent 22-plus minutes of Deep Purple at the top of their game.

They plow through “Strange Kind of Woman,” “Smoke on the Water” and “Space Truckin’” before turning things over to Lord, who is eventually joined by Blackmore, who throws down and steps on his Strat, tosses it in the air, replaces it with another (out-of-tune) Strat and slips into smoke-machine nirvana.

While we don’t know much about the show’s exact date or venue, we know it was filmed before July 1973, when singer David Coverdale stepped in for Gillan.

The current version of Deep Purple features the same rhythm section seen in the video below — Glover and Paice — plus Mark II’s Gillan on vocals. Dixie Dregs axeman Steve Morse and keyboardist Don Airey round out the band’s current lineup. Lord, who died last year, retired from the band in 2002. Blackmore quit in 1993.

Now What?! will be released April 30 via Eagle Rock Entertainment.

Deep Purple recently posted an official lyric video for “All the Time in the World,” the first single from their upcoming album, NOW What?!. The album will be released April 30 in North America via earMUSIC.

The album, which was recorded in Nashville, was produced by Bob Ezrin, who worked on Kiss’ Destroyer, Pink Floyd’s The Wall and many other classic albums. Song titles on NOW What?! include “Out of Hand,” “Hell to Pay,” “Weirdistan,” “Uncommon Man” and “Above And Beyond,” the last of which being a tribute to the band’s longtime keyboard player, Jon Lord, who died last year.

NOW What?! is the follow-up to 2005′s Rapture of the Deep. The band’s current lineup is Ian Paice (drums), Roger Glover (bass), Ian Gillan (vocals), Steve Morse (guitar) and Don Airey (keyboards).

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The upcoming studio album by Deep Purple, which the band has been promoting with a series of brief, cryptic teaser videos, finally has a name and release date.
NOW What?! will be released April 30 in North America via earMUSIC. The band will release a double A-sided single on March 29.

The record, which was recorded in Nashville, was produced by Bob Ezrin, who worked on Kiss’ Destroyer, Pink Floyd’s The Wall and many other classic albums.
NOW What?! is the followup to 2005′s Rapture of the Deep.

In this week’s Album of the Week poll, you, the fans, voted Hatebreed to the top spot, for their album, The Divinity of Purpose. Check out the top five vote-getters below:

1. Hatebreed – The Divinity of Purpose
2. Cult of Luna – Vertikal
3. Tomahawk – Oddfellows
4. Deep Purple – Live in Paris 1975
5. Accept – Playlist: The Very Best of Accept

Stay tuned for this week’s poll, which will be live tomorrow on RevolverMag.com. Until then, you can check out Hatebreed’s “Put It to the Torch” off The Divinity of Purpose below:

UPDATE: The poll is closed. For the results, click here.

Will 2013 be the year of Deep Purple?

It’s starting to shape up that way. The current version of the band, featuring guitar whiz Steve Morse, are releasing a new studio album in April; they recently posted a mysterious trailer for the upcoming disc.

In terms of archival projects, several of the band’s classic releases will be remastered and reissued this year, including Paris 1975, the band’s last show with Ritchie Blackmore (before his mid-’80s return). You can read more about that project here.

Now it seems there’s an official documentary in the works, and the band have posted a compelling video trailer for the project, which focuses on Deep Purple’s mid-’70s lineup featuring Glenn Hughes and guitarist Tommy Bolin.

This is how the still-untitled documentary is described on the band’s official YouTube page:

“It is well known that the Woodstock and Altamont festivals in the late ’60s were out of control. Bad, brown acid that brought on paralysing bad trips, and a mud bath for a venue that deteriorated into a sewer, are nothing on Deep Purple’s tour of Jakarta in 1975. The band’s visit – the first to the Indonesian capital by a western rock band – began with excitement, intrigue and a tank-led motorcade from the airport, but soon descended into intimidation, reneged contracts, mayhem, riots, guard dogs, sabotage, death and jail. Welcome to Deep Purple’s Jakarta nightmare…..’1975′ is the working title and the treatment for the film is currently being written with various production companies in discussion for the rights to this incredible story.”

Stay tuned for updates.

Legendary rockers Deep Purple have posted a short, sparse clip of music from their upcoming new album, which at the moment only bears a question mark as its title. Watch the teaser video below.

“The title of our new album is still a question mark to all of us,” Ian Gillian said last month. “We have recorded a new album, and it’s a fantastic collection of songs. At the moment that’s the only affirmative point we can offer.”

After being written mainly in Europe, the disc was recorded and mixed in Nashville, Tennessee, with producer Bob Ezrin. Song titles will include “Out Of Hand,” “Hell To Pay,” “Weirdistan,” “Uncommon Man” and “Above And Beyond,” the last of which being a tribute to the band’s longtime keyboard player Jon Lord, who passed away last year.

The follow-up to 2005′s Rapture Of The Deep is due in late April.