Smashing Pumpkins Announce 13th Studio Album, 'Aghori Mhori Mei'

The Smashing Pumpkins will release their 13th studio album next month. The Billy Corgan-led group revealed on Friday (July 19) that the 10-piece Aghori Mhori Mei will be released on August 2 as a follow-up to last year's three-act rock opera, ATUM.

“In writing this new album I was intrigued by the well-worn maxim, 'you can't go home again,'” guitarist/singer Corgan said in a statement about the album recorded in veteran Chicago midway. busy tour schedule of the band in recent years. “Personally I found it true to form, but I thought about it, what if we tried it anyway? Not so much to look back with sentimentality but rather as a means to move forward. to see if in the balance of success and failure our ways of making music circa 1990-1996 would still inspire something revelatory.”

Following the release of the two-plus-hour song, 33 ATUM — which Corgan set as a follow-up to his classic 1995 double album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness and 2000s Machina/The Machines of God — The release states that Corgan returned to the studio to write, produce and record the new album with a tracklist that includes a number of provocative song titles including: “Pentagrams,” “War Dreams of Itself” and “Goeth the Fall”.

The album announcement came after the Pumpkins wrapped up a string of fall tours in South and Latin America, marking their first venture south in nearly a decade. In addition, the band is currently opening for Green Day on their Saviors tour, including an upcoming concert on July 29 at Nationals Park in Washington, DC, along with headlining across the US via a concert on September 28 at Petco Park in San Diego? the Latin American tour kicks off on November 1st in Brasilia, Brazil.

check it Aghori Mhori Mei tracklist below.

1.) “Edin”

2.) “Pentagram”

3.) “Siggommy”

4.) “Pentecost”

5.) “War Dreams Of Itself”

6.) “Who Goes There”

7.) “999”

8.) “Goeth The Fall”

9.) “Sicarus”

10.) “Murnau”