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Setlist poll: the inFinite edition

Us fans, have a most peculiar favourite pastime — telling the band what to do, what not to do, which songs to play, and which not. In particular, every Tom, Jane and Joe know best what the ideal setlist should be, y’know, the one that “surely pleases everybody”. Despite the fact that the band repeatedly […]

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Ding-dong, we have a winner

The new Deep Purple album inFinite has achieved top position in the German album charts for the week of April 7-14. It follows on the success of Now what?!, which also got to number 1 upon its release. This is the eighth number 1 Deep Purple album in the country, and the last time two […]

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Saturn exclusive for inFinite

German brick-and-mortar and online retailer Saturs carries a version of the new album that is exclusive to the chain. It contains two bonus tracks — live versions of Smoke on the Water and Black Night recorded during the Now What?! tour. Bar code number for this item is 4029759119340, while the store SKU number is […]

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inFinite track-by-track

Don Airey, Ian Paice, Ian Gillan and Roger Glover comment on each of the inFinite tracks (watch inside)

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Purple special on UK radio

On Thursday, April 13th, there will be a one hour radio special on the new Deep Purple album inFinite with interviews with Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Ian Paice, and Don Airey, plus several tracks from the album. The show is on the air between 9 and 12 pm with the Deep Purple special in part […]

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inFinite in the charts

Attention: this article is being continuously updated with new information.

Tell us how inFinite is doing in your part of the world (preferably with prooflinks for confirmed chart positions). This post will serve as an inFinite clearing house for chart positions and will be updated regularly.

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Roger’s track-by-track

Team Rock has the new album track-by-track comments from Roger Glover: Time For Bedlam At the end of a jam that sounds promising, I’ll ask if anyone in the band has a working title for the song. Time For Bedlam was one of mine — it’s a fun play on words — and occasionally a […]

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Hard rock reloaded

Release of the Deep Purple’s new album was the top story today, April 7, at the Deutsche Welle cultural news programme Euromaxx.

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Sitting at a bar and not drinking

A very relaxed conversation with Roger Glover and Ian Paice as posted by German TV channel WDR (watch inside)

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inFinite early reviews roundup

With inFinite already out in some parts of the world, while in others still hours or days away, here is a brief roundup of early reviews from around the web. The Rockpit: The single that preceded the album ‘All I Got is You’ is quite possibly the best thing here, a track that manages to […]

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