Deep Purple reissuing new album

Deep Purple are re-releasing their new album Rapture Of The Deep in expanded form. The new edition has live versions of some Rapture songs, as well as a few classics. Bassist Roger Glover told us how those tracks came about: "We opened the Hard Rock Cafe in London a few months back. It was recorded, and I think there's three or four of those songs -- including some of the new ones -- are gonna be put out on a kind of special LP that's coming out. It's the Rapture 25-minute anniversary -- usually it's 25 years, this is 25 minutes."

The new Rapture Of The Deep is being rolled out across Europe and in Japan in the next month or so, to coincide with the band's tour dates abroad. There's no word yet on whether it will also come out here when they play North America later this year.

DeepPurple and Alice Cooper are in the midst of a tour of Germany.
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