---
title: "Deep Purple"
type: "MusicGroup"
url: "https://themetalnet.com/band/deep-purple"
genre: "Heavy Metal"
country: "United Kingdom"
formed: 1968
---

# Deep Purple

**Deep Purple** is a heavy metal band, from United Kingdom, active 1968 to present.

Deep Purple are a British rock band formed in London in 1968. They are considered to be among the pioneers of heavy metal and modern hard rock, although their musical style has varied throughout their career. Originally formed as a psychedelic rock and progressive rock band, they shifted to a heavier sound with their 1970 album Deep Purple in Rock. Deep Purple have been referred to as being part of the "unholy trinity of British hard rock and heavy metal in the early to mid-'70s", alongside Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath. Listed in the 1975 Guinness Book of World Records as "the globe's loudest band" for a 1972 concert at London's Rainbow Theatre, they have sold over 100 million records worldwide. Deep Purple have also generated several successful spinoff bands, including Rainbow, Whitesnake, and Gillan.

Biography source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Purple

## Facts

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Name | Deep Purple |
| Genre | Heavy Metal |
| Parent genre | Heavy Metal |
| Origin | Hertford, United Kingdom |
| Formed | 1968 |
| Releases in catalog | 77 |

## Genres

[Heavy Metal](https://themetalnet.com/genre/heavy-metal)

## Line-up

| Musician | Instruments | Years | Status |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Don Airey](https://themetalnet.com/musician/don-airey) | Organ, Keyboard | 2002 to present | Current |
| [Ian Gillan](https://themetalnet.com/musician/ian-gillan) | Percussion, Lead vocals, Harmonica | 1969 to present | Current |
| [Roger Glover](https://themetalnet.com/musician/roger-glover) | Bass guitar | 1969 to present | Current |
| [Simon McBride](https://themetalnet.com/musician/simon-mcbride) | Guitar | 2022 to present | Current |
| [Ian Paice](https://themetalnet.com/musician/ian-paice) | Percussion, Drums (drum set) | 1968 to present | Current |
| [Joe Lynn Turner](https://themetalnet.com/musician/joe-lynn-turner) | Lead vocals | 1989 to 1992 | Former |
| [Glenn Hughes](https://themetalnet.com/musician/glenn-hughes) | Lead vocals, Bass guitar | 1973 to 1976 | Former |
| [Jon Lord](https://themetalnet.com/musician/jon-lord) | Background vocals, Organ, Keyboard | 1968 to 2002 | Former |
| [Ritchie Blackmore](https://themetalnet.com/musician/ritchie-blackmore) | Guitar | 1968 to 1993 | Former |
| [David Coverdale](https://themetalnet.com/musician/david-coverdale) | Lead vocals | 1973 to 1976 | Former |
| [Joe Satriani](https://themetalnet.com/musician/joe-satriani) | Guitar | 1993 to 1994 | Former |
| [Nick Simper](https://themetalnet.com/musician/nick-simper) | Background vocals, Bass guitar | 1968 to 1969 | Former |
| [Rod Evans](https://themetalnet.com/musician/rod-evans) | Lead vocals | 1968 to 1969 | Former |
| [Steve Morse](https://themetalnet.com/musician/steve-morse) | Guitar | 1994 to 2022 | Former |
| [Tommy Bolin](https://themetalnet.com/musician/tommy-bolin) | Lead vocals, Guitar, Bass guitar | 1975 to 1976 | Former |

## Discography

| Year | Release | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1968 | [Murmullo – Hush](https://themetalnet.com/album/d94dea34-938a-4adb-a882-6615317295e8) | EP |
| 1968 | [Shades of Deep Purple](https://themetalnet.com/album/bdb083d6-be5e-32b3-97df-3d899a8ff858) | Album |
| 1968 | [Shades of Deep Purple](https://themetalnet.com/album/cb31ae66-6210-428a-a74d-24f666bc71de) | EP |
| 1968 | [The Book of Taliesyn](https://themetalnet.com/album/3a2bbe30-d2c7-367b-9326-f0082adad661) | Album |
| 1969 | [Deep Purple](https://themetalnet.com/album/bacc3ccf-32aa-3103-b50c-4edaa35e6fb6) | Album |
| 1969 | [Shades of Deep Purple](https://themetalnet.com/album/3b268c01-24cc-44a0-afbe-dd4794c5ed3f) | EP |
| 1970 | [Black Night](https://themetalnet.com/album/d4faedaa-d570-40e2-a8e6-71e8b8314ca3) | EP |
| 1970 | [Deep Purple](https://themetalnet.com/album/61adb7e5-2623-4da8-a680-69c9c663b265) | EP |
| 1970 | [Deep Purple in Rock](https://themetalnet.com/album/ebdb53c3-fbae-34b1-81cb-f825c9a56822) | Album |
| 1970 | [The Bird Has Flown](https://themetalnet.com/album/791f4f73-120d-448a-8216-fc10df759bfa) | EP |
| 1971 | [Fireball](https://themetalnet.com/album/b9547871-240a-3ca4-97d7-9f2dfffe471c) | Album |
| 1972 | [Machine Head](https://themetalnet.com/album/d00243c5-adcf-3018-9aa7-1957d7a5a774) | Album |
| 1972 | [Never Before](https://themetalnet.com/album/9921b69c-010d-419a-92e2-dea2e5602cdf) | EP |
| 1973 | [Abril](https://themetalnet.com/album/24221b59-c2c0-4200-bcb3-c88c11fca63b) | EP |
| 1973 | [Highway Star](https://themetalnet.com/album/1f7a2df7-efa1-48c8-91cd-ed9590b6a1e2) | EP |
| 1973 | [Space Truckin’](https://themetalnet.com/album/7a309632-172d-4d6b-ad39-02cc7d5b028d) | EP |
| 1973 | [Who Do We Think We Are](https://themetalnet.com/album/edba2b6f-8f50-3bc9-b2ac-1df8bdb51daa) | Album |
| 1973 | [Woman From Tokyo](https://themetalnet.com/album/8b5cc04e-d17c-45f3-82ff-2b7f196842a2) | EP |
| 1973 | [Woman From Tokyo](https://themetalnet.com/album/86fb23ba-0c0e-4c85-9488-60ae08edbb27) | EP |
| 1974 | [Black Night](https://themetalnet.com/album/45139c32-f0d0-4772-aece-9c9a025fde03) | EP |
| 1974 | [Burn](https://themetalnet.com/album/e8459360-b0d1-331e-a1e7-9717c962d29f) | Album |
| 1974 | [Burn](https://themetalnet.com/album/76bebb7a-9575-4a8a-a059-17d55103f0c1) | EP |
| 1974 | [Burn](https://themetalnet.com/album/0e1fc3d1-f1cf-405e-ac74-caf3cc48d4f8) | EP |
| 1974 | [Deep Purple in Rock](https://themetalnet.com/album/51395f0b-e7aa-464d-9d8c-ce3ac2a7c003) | EP |
| 1974 | [Stormbringer](https://themetalnet.com/album/95d17f98-dfe2-36c4-b950-fcdc1bdbc279) | Album |
| 1974 | [Вокально-Инструментальные Ансамбли](https://themetalnet.com/album/8e73d831-fe82-42ad-8a77-0bd6364cecba) | EP |
| 1975 | [Child in Time](https://themetalnet.com/album/ffe3f295-91e8-4b3c-b7f9-6980ab182309) | EP |
| 1975 | [Come Taste the Band](https://themetalnet.com/album/d12f085d-7861-36cd-a2fb-55a18ddc6e56) | Album |
| 1975 | [Lay Down Stay Down](https://themetalnet.com/album/f0fac548-2921-4c6d-84e6-4e9fd3a53684) | EP |
| 1977 | [2 + 2, Vol. 43](https://themetalnet.com/album/84d5405f-27b6-4f9e-8725-35815be2fef3) | EP |
| 1977 | [Come With Me / Smoke on the Water / Woman From Tokyo](https://themetalnet.com/album/4528f305-e4c5-4eb8-a18e-3188cb616c40) | EP |
| 1977 | [New Live & Rare](https://themetalnet.com/album/7fb224b4-9696-4270-b8e9-5ded59c9ff66) | EP |
| 1977 | [Smoke on the Water](https://themetalnet.com/album/ee6d3995-6ca0-44e9-873a-a20dba83d783) | EP |
| 1980 | [New Live & Rare: Vol. 3](https://themetalnet.com/album/645a6498-837f-4fe1-83cd-d07f44e6c72b) | EP |
| 1984 | [Perfect Strangers](https://themetalnet.com/album/41a276ce-ea2b-377c-9ad8-0ef0bfd1f5c2) | Album |
| 1985 | [Lady Double](https://themetalnet.com/album/5f8ba9c0-7368-4f24-ba44-0ad35e98fa03) | EP |
| 1985 | [Smoke on My Mega‐Mix](https://themetalnet.com/album/c54c0afe-8b80-416b-9ffa-a11b667bbc4a) | EP |
| 1985 | [Smoke on the Water](https://themetalnet.com/album/488d334c-120b-4170-bda6-bdbba50894f7) | EP |
| 1987 | [Bad Attitude](https://themetalnet.com/album/05a030fe-53d9-4a92-9a2b-43da9e000fa0) | EP |
| 1987 | [The Colour Purple](https://themetalnet.com/album/d69e5ab6-a884-4c5b-9cbe-31f8b2d15411) | Album |
| 1987 | [The House of Blue Light](https://themetalnet.com/album/3627b95b-c892-3c42-bbf6-d203ef6ffe6b) | Album |
| 1988 | [Perfect Strangers](https://themetalnet.com/album/736b2a7f-c1f0-4462-b09f-816aa20bfbc9) | EP |
| 1990 | [Doing Their Thing](https://themetalnet.com/album/9d3d62fd-fc9a-4919-a61e-62b884ddadab) | EP |
| 1990 | [Edited Selections From the Forthcoming Album “Slaves and Masters”](https://themetalnet.com/album/bd0a7c11-688d-417f-a9bb-4e666e8c82f2) | EP |
| 1990 | [Slaves and Masters](https://themetalnet.com/album/f00f78f4-f04c-3e38-9797-892c047f3a0a) | Album |
| 1993 | [Smoke on the Water](https://themetalnet.com/album/fc7dcc58-ad12-4c09-aea3-60997043739b) | EP |
| 1993 | [The Battle Rages On](https://themetalnet.com/album/4bce5b59-d521-42f0-8d75-a337492da98e) | EP |
| 1993 | [The Battle Rages On…](https://themetalnet.com/album/4859ab03-71a1-3217-93ec-df15dca6e2e3) | Album |
| 1996 | [Purpendicular](https://themetalnet.com/album/ed6487db-873e-317b-9a72-6085b53ea966) | Album |
| 1998 | [Abandon](https://themetalnet.com/album/ca8b119f-376c-3e8c-840a-4a9e572dfa25) | Album |
| 1998 | [Abandon](https://themetalnet.com/album/bb33b260-c166-499d-bf7d-11a85497ce5d) | EP |
| 2000 | [Pictures of Home](https://themetalnet.com/album/0d449b1f-626a-4548-ba27-77baf4fc0099) | EP |
| 2003 | [Bananas](https://themetalnet.com/album/b2c0f9df-aaed-3ed2-af0c-1dd53ea02498) | Album |
| 2005 | [Rapture of the Deep](https://themetalnet.com/album/47b949bf-dc12-3b49-9f31-f1176577d7d1) | Album |
| 2005 | [The Platinum Collection Sampler](https://themetalnet.com/album/e70e7df4-c65d-4a4c-8345-7a466006b9fc) | EP |
| 2007 | [Special Edition EP](https://themetalnet.com/album/7b583873-ab07-4c1b-81a0-aa325c948250) | EP |
| 2008 | [In Their Own Words](https://themetalnet.com/album/228f8037-91fa-4078-b85a-ee78b786534e) | EP |
| 2008 | [Stormbringers](https://themetalnet.com/album/00cccdf7-26d4-484e-9df7-c80838853948) | EP |
| 2012 | [A Twist in the Tale](https://themetalnet.com/album/635dde32-5ca6-4b70-93b7-e741064e52b6) | EP |
| 2013 | [Above and Beyond](https://themetalnet.com/album/f697e37f-273b-4ab8-a429-0af87c9c5bc8) | EP |
| 2013 | [All the Time in the World](https://themetalnet.com/album/dbd362a6-bf92-44b5-8498-235041f8d2b7) | EP |
| 2013 | [Now What?!](https://themetalnet.com/album/83afd89b-8746-4ff5-b1f4-aa64863de85e) | Album |
| 2014 | [Made in Japan](https://themetalnet.com/album/3841f4e6-06ba-4a6e-9111-0f0eb539f68d) | EP |
| 2015 | [Out of Hand](https://themetalnet.com/album/076684a5-1e9a-4197-a7b8-92c87a3b452c) | EP |
| 2016 | [Long Beach 1976](https://themetalnet.com/album/dbd5b838-2b84-4099-8d70-43c6e7300967) | EP |
| 2017 | [All I Got Is You](https://themetalnet.com/album/f7c0546d-ea09-44fc-b0cf-6d9974323621) | EP |
| 2017 | [Infinite](https://themetalnet.com/album/01f46d72-4a95-4dd8-b8f0-41b59b2a1939) | Album |
| 2017 | [Johnny’s Band](https://themetalnet.com/album/879fd40a-0185-4c72-aad7-83693ba3c545) | EP |
| 2017 | [Time for Bedlam](https://themetalnet.com/album/dc45d342-0dbe-4dfb-a8bd-53764ab87f94) | EP |
| 2020 | [Throw My Bones](https://themetalnet.com/album/1dbcd291-f39d-47fb-9ff2-6880113ae519) | EP |
| 2020 | [Whoosh!](https://themetalnet.com/album/dd3a44e9-8dc3-4803-8392-62452672fabe) | Album |
| 2021 | [Turning to Crime](https://themetalnet.com/album/09e40d7f-d1ee-42b1-85fd-5a852dd21c08) | Album |
| 2024 | [=1](https://themetalnet.com/album/2b19b441-703c-4af1-8b05-fbfaaf79a41a) | Album |
| 2024 | [Lazy Sod](https://themetalnet.com/album/b9e901ae-9d73-4789-ab1e-e64841e104b8) | EP |
| 2025 | [Things I Never Said](https://themetalnet.com/album/636b5206-aeaf-44ab-ae29-93a0b4ad7338) | EP |
| 2026 | [SPLAT!](https://themetalnet.com/album/e67fe079-daef-490b-9f2d-fbc4b68e4466) | Album |
|  | [New Live & Rare, Vol 2](https://themetalnet.com/album/67a126e2-70e2-44e5-bb1c-d38293d46b49) | EP |

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## Official and external links

- youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3SF_Sa_dVWQ09m88nvsXrg
- spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/568ZhdwyaiCyOGJRtNYhWf
- facebook: https://www.facebook.com/officialdeeppurple
- deezer: https://www.deezer.com/artist/864
- website: https://www.deep-purple.com/
- x: https://twitter.com/_DeepPurple
- metal archives: https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Deep_Purple/1178
- instagram: https://www.instagram.com/deeppurple_official/
- apple music: https://music.apple.com/gb/artist/135532

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Source: [TheMetalNet https://themetalnet.com/band/deep-purple](https://themetalnet.com/band/deep-purple). Catalog data from MusicBrainz and Metal Archives. Full site index: https://themetalnet.com/llms.txt