[Cover photo credit to Olaf Heine]

Hard Rock band Deep Purple have revealed the first single and video for “Arrogant Boy.” It’s the initial musical statement from Splat!, the band’s new studio album set for a July 3, 2026 release on earMUSIC. The official music video for the track is taken from a live performance.

Frontman Gillian says about the song:

‘Arrogant Boy’ is the story of Billy who couldn’t read or write. He is unhappy with things, so he speaks up, and finds a way of irritating, one way or another, the elite. And I can’t think of anything more fun than irritating the elite. It would be a joyous exercise for me every morning after coffee.

For the new album, the band has teamed up with producer Bob Ezrin, continuing a collaboration across recent studio albums.

On the touring front, Deep Purple have just completed shows in Asia and the band is set to continue touring with a run of European summer dates in June before officially launching the Splat! World Tour in North America in August. They will then continue across Europe in the autumn before the year ends with shows in South America in December.

At the heart of Splat! is an idea conceived by Ian Gillan, “Rather than treating the end as destruction, the album imagines it as transformation.” The album “explores the end of humanity not in any crude apocalyptic sense but as a metamorphosis beyond physical existence.”