The Smashing Pumpkins already have two new albums on the docket for 2015, and they might be trying for a third.
Monuments To An Elegy and Day For Night are already public knowledge, but guitarist Jeff Schroeder posted the following message on Instagram Thursday night (next to an image of a Sunn amplifier):
"Billy [Corgan] and I are making a doom metal album." For those thinking it may be just a cooky side project, Schroeder made sure to add a "#smashingpumpkins"
(via Consequence of Sound)
The post was most likely a joke, but the #smashingpumpkins hash tag is likely to get fans' hopes up.
Of course, a third album after Monuments and Night next year would run contrary to statements Corgan recently made while describing the process of making those two albums.
"When this process is over, I'm either going to bail on this ship for good, like 'I'm done,' or I'm going to have a new ship to sail on," he said. "How do you say, 'I still matter'? How do you say, 'How does one of my contemporaries get treated like a contemporary artist, and how do I get treated like I'm supposed to play Siamese Dream for the rest of my life?'"
As our own Ryan Book explained:
That statement does more than suggest: It seems Corgan is debating between leaving music for good or simply starting a new band. Retaining the Smashing Pumpkins title doesn't seem to be one of the options available.
Corgan also recently discussed the state of rock music as it shifts completely away from his heyday in the '90s.
"Having played in a band with a millennial, this is a general comment and I don't mean it as criticism, I think that their goal of what they're looking for is far different than ours," Corgan said. "I think their qualification for what a peak moment [at a concert] is, is different. I think they look at things far differently than we did. Sometimes I have to step back and say, 'If that's what they want, and that's the way they want it, I shouldn't be the one judging it. But it's communicating whatever it is that they need to communicate.' At the end of the day, they need the right band on stage so that they can take the selfie, then maybe that's what a peak moment is for them. For us, in our generation, it was about 60,000 people in a field moving in one cloud of f---ing insane energy. Those are memories... to this day, I still can't believe that I stood on a stage and watched that happen."
