Get ready for some "epic" alternative rock in 2015. Today (March 25), Smashing Pumpkins frontman/the only original member left Billy Corgan announced the band will be releasing two new albums next year.
According to the newly launched Smashing Pumpkins website, smashingpumpkinsnexus.com (via Pitchfork), Corgan signed a new record deal with Sony BMG and will drop two new albums in the new year, titled Monuments To An Elegy and Day For Night.
Exact release dates for the two albums have, understandably, not been announced, though work has begun. According to Corgan's message on the site, "recording sessions begin today, as plenty of songs have been written and ready to go." Additionally, a new single is due out by the end of this year.
Corgan described the sound of the new material as, well quite guitar heavy, something he emphasized. "For those interested in sound, think : 'guitars, guitars, guitars, and more guitars;' but more so on the epic side of things than say, grossly metallic," he wrote.
Smashing Pumpkins are working with Howard Willing, whom the band worked with on its "Adore" sessions in late 1997 through spring of '98.
When released in 2015, Monuments To An Elegy and Day For Night will be the band's ninth and tenth studio albums, respectively. Monuments will be the immediate follow-up to Smashing Pumpkins' last effort, Oceania, which dropped in June 2012.
