Review: DEEP PURPLE - The Surprising (video)

Originally posted on social media on Oct 5th, 2017.

Now this is actually kind of cool! Deep Purple are releasing the best and most adventurous track from their last album - "The Surprising" - as the new single. While video isn't technically and visually anything to really fancy to watch more than once, the idea itself - of the Icebreaker "Infinite" (1968-20!?)" going through a journey of "easter egg trail" related to the band history is really sweet.

What is totally great about it - that's the fact of the first time actually when the current line-up, at least by the hands of the third party (the video makers), acknowledges the WHOLE of the band's history and studio albums, which is a big mental progress for them. Not fully new era of embracing what the band actually is, since the faces of no ex-members appear (which seems kind of rough especially in relation to the founding members Ritchie Blackmore and Jon Lord, who created the band and were on board for bit plus-bit less than 30 years), but still it is a step forward in their way of thinking about their own legacy.

The track itself still sounds astoundingly good and adveturous, worth yer ears.

The one thing that does not change is the company's policy who re-release the succesful album 6 months after the premiere, packing it up with extra goodies, which kind of makes you think they want to milk one cow twice plus leave the original bunch of buyers on the dry, thin ice with inferior first edition on the shelves. Good times, bad times!