Alternative rock band Smashing Pumpkins have signed a new record deal and will release two new albums in 2015. The upcoming albums, already titled “Monuments To An Elegy” and “Day For Night,” are positioned to be the Pumpkin’s ninth and 10th studio albums and will serve as the follow-ups to the Chicago group’s latest album “Oceania,” which debuted and peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 when released in 2012.
Frontman Billy Corgan shared the exciting news of new music from the Pumpkins on the band’s recently launched website. “Pleased to announce that I’ve just inked a new record deal with BMG that will see the release of two Smashing Pumpkins albums in 2015,” said Corgan. Fans can expect guitar-driven records from the band, but Corgan also promises that “Monuments To An Elegy” and “Day For Night” will be “more so on the epic side of things than say, grossly metallic.”
Recording sessions for the forthcoming albums have already begun, with production from Howard Willing, who helped engineer the band’s electro-rock set “Adore” in 1998. A first single should be out by “year’s end,” according to Corgan.
To date, Smashing Pumpkins has sold 17 million albums, topping the chart once with 1995’s classic double album “Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.” Other notable releases include 2000’s two-part LP “Machina” and 2007’s “Zeitgeist,” which peaked at No. 2 on the albums chart.
