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Purple Storm
There’s a Deep Purple tribute album in the works. It is called Purple Storm, and is due out on November 13, 2026, via Cleopatra Records. The album will be available on CD, 2LP, and digital.
Track listing:
- Highway Star — Derek Sherinian, Billy Sheehan, Chris Adler, Girish Pradhan, Gus G
- Smoke On The Water — George Lynch, Derek Sherinian, Vinny Appice, Graham Bonnet, Joe Bouchard
- Space Truckin’ — L.A. Guns
- Child In Time — Chris Holmes, Alan Davey, Jürgen Engler, Ronnie Romero, Jonathan Cain, Fred Aching Rios
- Perfect Strangers — Pat Travers, Jordan Rudess, Greyson Nekrutman, Oni Logan, Tony Campos
- Woman From Tokyo — Angel
- Burn — Doug Aldrich, Bob Daisley, 616, Jonathan Cain, Bobby Rondinelli
- Hush — Arthur Brown, Alan Davey, Joel Hoekstra, Carmine Appice, Chris Lietz
- Fireball — Marc Lopes, Steve Di Giorgio, Simon Wright, Charlie Parra del Riego, Claudio Pesavento
- Speed King — Thor, Derek Sherinian, Chris Poland, Marc Lopes, David Ellefson, Fred Aching Rios, Brandon Ellis
- Black Night — Rick Wakeman, Bernie Shaw, Bob Daisley, Mick Box, Simon Phillips
- Stormbringer — Jason McMaster, Marty Friedman, Rudy Sarzo, Claudio Pesavento, Brian Tichy
A single for Smoke has been released today, August 27:
Thanks to BraveWords for the heads-up.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
The CD cover art doesn’t encourage me to buy it.
August 28th, 2026 at 07:18Hello.
David Black @1. Right on spot.
Ridicously awful cover. Skull (remember the recent Rainbow tribute….) !!!!!
….has someone maybe counted the amount of these tribute albums no one needs?
I really need my coffee now!
Kippis.
August 28th, 2026 at 08:36@1
Nor does the music!
August 28th, 2026 at 09:35@1 If I didn’t buy every DP album because I didn’t like the cover then my DP collection will be cut to half.
August 28th, 2026 at 09:47Listen with ears and close your eyes.
Peace ✌️
Seems like the same old same old, both concerning the songs and the involved people.
August 28th, 2026 at 10:50It would be really refreshing with a tribute album paying attention to the post Perfect Strangers era as well – such an album I’d consider buying…
I now know why both Ritchie and Jon steadfastly refused to include thirds (which I generally love and play a lot) in the way they played the SOTW riff. Musically interesting and refined as it is here, it kills the riff, it really does and I’m saying this as someone who likes George Lynch’s style, always did, I never thought Don Dokken was a great singer, but Lynch’s lead guitar was something else. (He’s also the father-in-law of Judas Priest’s guitar Wunderkind Richie Faulkner who took over from KK Downing but over time became the new Glenn Tipton/musical director of the band.)
That said and I’m certainly biased as a Bonnet fan, I do like the way he sings SOTW (that’s not to say it can compete with IG’s raconteur style, he after all saw what happened).
I have recently received that Rainbow tribute “Ride the Rainbow” which is performed by a similar cast and sort of a companion disc to this: As Rainbow tributes go, it is probably the best I’ve heard. Not everything works, but enough does. I have a hunch it will be the same with this release.
August 28th, 2026 at 14:12I wonder if anybody buys these All-Star tribute albums ?? I bought a couple ,back in the day,but I never gave them much air-play.I probably traded them at a 2nd hand CD shop,
August 28th, 2026 at 14:48Doesnt sound like Graham to me.
August 28th, 2026 at 19:30I know this is a minor quible, but jeez that cover!
August 28th, 2026 at 20:02Lord have mercy. This sounds (and looks! ) like a lot of …yaaawn. I sure don’t need it.
The New York tribute to DP was quite interesting in parts, most others were plain boring imho. Oh…and the french Jazz tribute was different at least.
August 28th, 2026 at 21:02Stuff like this is a guilty pleasure for archivists like me.
Let‘s not talk about the cover, but the Satan in flames for SOTW is even worse than that Purple skull. That said, the Purple Family as a whole has had its share of naff covers too.
August 28th, 2026 at 21:39Yo,
I’m happy for the band that many other artists want to celebrate their music in this way.
As for the cover, take-it-or-leave-it, matters could be far worse…
Interesting that the guitar photographed is known as the “Smith Stratocaster” circa 1981 ( if my eyes are seeing it correctly ). From memory, it was never a success, had a strange jack-mount for your lead / chord, a dodgy rear-bridge & lost a tone-dial whilst featuring a new “X-1” dubbed rear pick-up…The neck reverted to the old-style small head-stock, along with 4-bolt-mounting…The point is, no-one in DP has ever played one lol !
Still, a Stratocaster is a Stratocaster, & that means great sound none-the-less !
Ciao !
August 28th, 2026 at 22:28one word ‘AWFUL’
August 29th, 2026 at 11:25I really like tribute versions to take a different approach.
Already a LIVING COLOUR fan I loved Corey Glovers singing on BURN and FIREBALL.
On the same cd a great vocal by JLT on BLACK NIGHT
I probably omit too many great renditions like the one GLENN did HIGHWAYSTAR and JLT doing PICTURES OF HOME.
Can anyone tell me wtf that last track is faded out in the midst of a great HAMMONDsolo?!
August 29th, 2026 at 13:29The usual subjects making a fast extra buck by sending in a file… I can see no celebration in that. A dime a dozrn those albums. Obvious songs, played to death, not a single idea or rearrangement most of the time (havn’t heard this one though…but would be surprised if it was different).
And the art work… well to think it could be far worse tales a lot of imagination for me.
Sure as a DP fan I’m not spoiled when it comes to art work. A lot of album covers I’d shy to show around. But it’s all a matter of taste of course.
August 29th, 2026 at 17:10Bonnet sings quite ok, the guitar line is simply not necessary , almost ruins the effort
August 29th, 2026 at 17:11Ok, I listened to SotW now… it is a bit different I’d say. Can easily do without it though.
August 29th, 2026 at 17:28Well, you have to listen to it; it’s very hard to truly do justice to perfection, though it really is a privilege, and we fans of good music—and DP in particular—are grateful. What I don’t get is that skull on the cover. Cheers.
August 29th, 2026 at 19:06Totally pointless, I can’t see many buyers unfortunately..
August 29th, 2026 at 23:46@ 14- hooray Rock, a Living Colour aficionado, great to see. The few times I have mentioned them here has not raised any inkling of a tiny bit of recognition from anyone from my memory. I went to a gig in 1993, full on it was and great. Probably the most in your face concert I have ever attended. Although Gillan in 1981 was rather brutal in certain ways. At least Ian didn’t do any stage diving, unlike Cory Glover who was into that big time back then ha ha ha. I doubt that Corey would do that these days. Hey there is another Glover, I wonder if Roger is related to Corey, he he he. They are everywhere these Glover types. Musicians and artists, just to name a few hobbies they partake in. Cheers.
August 30th, 2026 at 11:28The thing with tributes of DP‘s music is that so much of the impact of DP songs (and Rainbow songs as well) is based on the original instrumental execution. Take away Little Ian‘s drumming and you lose that key element of swing because most drummers today (at least the ones playing heavy music) don‘t really drum that way anymore, it is a dying art. And Jon‘s rhythm Hammond playing cannot be replicated that easily either much less bettered.
The other thing is that DP’s specific songwriting doesn’t really lend itself to be explored in different avenues. You can’t really reduce DP songs much nor can you really expand on them. Covers that try to mimic DP’s sound bore me to tears, yet I have never heard a cover of a DP song – except IGB‘s CIT in fact – by another rock band line-up that really dared to take a DP composition somewhere else and still have it work, occasional novelty excursions like turning a DP number into an instrumental jazz piece aside.
Can anybody imagine a DP song getting a treatment like this?
https://youtu.be/PDd-180FQ8U
And if someone did, I fear most THS brethren here would be up in arms! 😂 I mean poor George Lynch dared to add a few (actually clever) harmonies to the SOTW riff and look how much flak he gets – including from me!
And then there is this golden rule in covering something differently and that is how it is comparatively easy to turn a non-rocker song into a rocker (like Nazareth did with Joni Mitchell‘s This Flight Tonight, Judas Priest with Joan Baez‘ Diamonds & Rust or these guys here with the Prince of Pop …
https://youtu.be/uQyd1wN-qew ), but it doesn‘t work nearly as well the other way around though these guys here did for a change pull off the trick quite idiosyncratically …
https://youtu.be/3em45zhVQ1E
August 30th, 2026 at 12:19At the then free festival in Parkpop in the Haque I saw Living Colour.
I watched SKYCHANNELs Monsters of Rock show on tv in the 80s which was not a little thing for me, living in a village and not having much options to exp;ore.
Mick Wall was almost dancing on MIDDLE MAN and I got that.
But I had been in love with funk fused with rock due to Glenn and Mothers Finest for years, soooo…
I love the first 3 albums, after that it got difficult for me to get into it.
Many years later saw Corey after the show in the Melkweg in Amsterdam and he stared at me as if…..Dunno
Almost as if he didnt get why a white still longhaired man loved this black band.
I preferred him with his long hairs.
August 31st, 2026 at 14:36Maybe I said something odd like that, haha
@ 14 & 20. Living Color is great. Whenever the question of best debut album comes up I always think oh theirs. Might just listen to it later when I am home from errands
August 31st, 2026 at 20:21.
I like Living Color and Mother’s Finest too, great bands both.
September 1st, 2026 at 02:17A band of superior caliber is Living Colour, I got to know them thanks to a high school classmate of mine who introduced me to Beastie Boys, Primus, Faith no More, Therapy? and other bands of the alternative rock movement
they still have their strange magnetism:
September 1st, 2026 at 21:12https://youtu.be/bzAI4F_ks5s?si=e-HLPj5tBi_ehL2h
I also love Living Colour but they have nothing to do with the topic above. Move to the forum, please.
September 1st, 2026 at 21:31Nothing? Didn’t their members play on the TM Stevens DO tribute which was one of the better ones?
https://youtu.be/pY56aonrm48
Just sayin’. The smaller the net, the smaller the fish.
September 2nd, 2026 at 01:38That album art is much better than Born Again.
September 2nd, 2026 at 05:28That is one of the problems with deciding what is on topic or not when we’re dealing with Deep Purple, the branches are reaching far and wide. Of we are to include all tribute albums available, that makes pretty much any artist alive or dead on topic. 🙂
September 2nd, 2026 at 05:35I am always happy to test your boundaries, Svante! 😈
September 2nd, 2026 at 12:3826
I know I can be all over the place but referring back to an older tribute to DP cd seems logical.
Found this….for now…
https://cleopatrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/lady-of-the-lake-woman-from-tokyo-purple-colored-12-vinyl-white-label-physical-copy-only
September 3rd, 2026 at 20:34https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dd59sE1RwGg
#31 RockVoonne:
Thanks for the link!
It’s really the ashes of the 70’s Angels, with only Frank DiMino on vocals!
I thought they didn’t exist anymore, in the past there were illustrious members such as session musicians Sarzo and Raymond and Giuffria, Ricky Phillips of Bad English and Frederiksen of Toto.
surely with Purple’s popularity on the rise in 2026, they will sell some copies of this EP.
The cover of Lady of the Lake was produced by Pat Thrall, and I have to say it’s quite enjoyable, apart from the bass being as stiff as a tree trunk, I’m amazed by the voice of 72-year-old DiMino.
September 3rd, 2026 at 21:29I like Angel, but their Lady of the Lake rendition is among the lamest contributions to that Rainbow sampler which overall isn‘t a train wreck if hardly vital.
September 3rd, 2026 at 22:00Of one d but EVERY related product it d only be for the rich among us.
Like when I still bought much of it I appreciate every good rendition for what it is even though I share your opinion of it probably here and there.
I was surprised to see LADY OF THE LAKE.
Ofcourse it had to be a RAINBOW song, I dont know the appeal of this limited edition.
I was mostly seeking their WFT approach.
September 4th, 2026 at 14:16Actually, I quite like Lady of the Lake, it’s among my favorite Dio era Rainbow songs.
Romero’s former outfit did a version of it too, sticking however very close to the template (though their heart is audibly in it):
https://youtu.be/Jv9dny7DkFA
With an ear candy (no pun intended!) chorus like that, I always expected BN to do a version of it.
Criminal that Rainbow never even attempted this song live.
September 5th, 2026 at 05:18#35 Uwe:
indeed, I find that “Lady of the Lake” already points the way, musically speaking, toward Rainbow’s future AOR evolution.
September 5th, 2026 at 12:20