Deep Purple set sail in animated video for The Surprising

By Scott Munro
( Classic Rock )
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Deep Purple launch new video for The Surprising - and announce gold edition of their latest album InFinite along with live LP and Blu-ray documentary

A still from the video
A still from the video

Deep Purple have released an animated video for their track The Surprising.

The song features on the band’s 20th studio album InFinite, which launched in April this year with the promo directed and illustrated by Matt Rooke alongside director Peter Rogers, who also produced the video together with Craig Hooper and Collin Games.

A statement on the release reads: “Today, Deep Purple are setting sails into new waters with their first ever animated video.

“The official video for The Surprising takes the viewer on a journey through the magical 50-year history of the band. With high attention to detail, the animated masterpiece follows the five heroes of our story – Ian Gillan, Ian Paice, Roger Glover, Don Airey and Steve Morse – through a stormy ship cruise full of allusions and sees them riding off into the sunset.”

Deep Purple have also announced that they’ll release a limited edition gold version of InFinite on November 3, a 3LP titled The InFinite Live Recordings Vol.1 and a Blu-ray documentary.

The gold edition will launch on 2CD digipak with brand new artwork and along with the original album, will contain their previously unreleased 80-minute live set from Hellfest 2017.

Deep Purple’s set will also feature on The InFinite Live Recordings Vol.1, which has been produced by Bob Ezrin.

The 97-minute documentary titled From Here To inFinite focuses on how the band created their 20th studio album, with the Blu-ray also containing more than two hour of bonus material, including three previously unreleased videos for Time For Bedlam, Birds Of Prey and Smoke On The Water – all filmed at this year’s Hellfest.

The package will also feature behind-the-scenes footage, outtakes, interviews and an audio commentary by Deep Purple themselves.

Deep Purple will play shows across the UK next month on The Long Goodbye Tour, with support from Europe and Cats In Space.

Deep Purple Infinite Gold Edition tracklist

CD1: InFinite

  1. Time For Bedlam
  2. Hip Boots
  3. All I Got Is You
  4. One Night In Vegas
  5. Get Me Outta Here
  6. The Surprising
  7. Johnny’s Band
  8. On Top Of The World
  9. Birds Of Prey
  10. Roadhouse Blues

CD2: Live At Hellfest 2017

  1. Time For Bedlam
  2. Fireball
  3. Bloodsucker
  4. Strange Kind Of Woman
  5. Uncommon Man
  6. The Surprising
  7. Lazy
  8. Birds Of Prey
  9. Perfect Strangers
  10. Space Truckin’
  11. Smoke On The Water

Deep Purple The Long Goodbye UK tour

Nov 17: Birmingham Barclaycard Arena
Nov 18: Manchester Arena
Nov 20: Cardiff Motorpoint Arena
Nov 22: Glasgow SSE Hydro
Nov 23: London O2

Roger Glover's track-by-track guide to Deep Purple's InFinite

Scott Munro
Scott Munro
Louder e-commerce editor

Scott has spent 35 years in newspapers, magazines and online as an editor, production editor, sub-editor, designer, writer and reviewer. Scott joined our news desk in the summer of 2014 before moving to the e-commerce team in 2020. Scott keeps Louder’s buyer’s guides up to date, writes about the best deals for music fans, keeps on top of the latest tech releases and reviews headphones, speakers, earplugs and more. Over the last 10 years, Scott has written more than 11,000 articles across Louder, Classic Rock, Metal Hammer and Prog. He's previously written for publications including IGN, the Sunday Mirror, Daily Record and The Herald newspapers, covering everything from daily news and weekly features, to tech reviews, video games, travel and whisky. Scott's favourite bands are Fields Of The Nephilim, The Cure, New Model Army, All About Eve, The Mission, Cocteau Twins, Drab Majesty, Marillion and Rush.