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PURPENDICULAR (Feat. Ian Paice) Release New Single And Video ‘Blood Red Moon’

July 25, 2025 8:13 AM

PURPENDICULAR feat. IAN PAICE release “Blood Red Moon”, the first single from the new studio album “Banned”, out on 10 October at Metalville.

“Blood Red Moon” was inspired by a surreal moment when the wildfires in Portugal painted the night sky in ash and turned the moon a deep crimson. The track channels that haunting image into a driving rock anthem, filled with emotional urgency and atmospheric tension. It’s a sonic journey through devastation and reflection—where beauty emerges from chaos and silence burns louder than fire.

In the hot summer of 2024, the band decided to write their fourth album in a remote village high in the mountains near Porto, Portugal.

The concept was agreed on the first night but that concept took a twist when the devastating fires took place that very evening, putting the lives of the band in grave danger.

The band were rescued off the mountain from their villa, too a safer option and to an alternative accommodation where they spent the night watching the fires rage on the veranda.

It was here titles and more ideas came to fruition, to add to the already conceptual theme of BANNED which summarises todays sensitive culture, in that the slightest wrong word can get you banned, adding the pun Banned with last two
letters before the last D in the word being crossed out equaling the word BAND.

With all this in mind and the whole band in agreement, it was then decided to add an autobiographical theme also, telling the story of events as they unfolded that treacherous night where many people lost their lives and homes.

The final recordings of the album were completed in Italy, Poland and UK. The record is produced by Alessandro Debiaggi and Robby Thomas Walsh. It is a fresh modern look back at the 70s! It is advised to play this Record very loud!

TRACK LISTING
Inferno
Beast
The Escape
Blood Red Moon
You Better Behave
Banned
Too Hard To PLease
Seventies Kid
The End

LINE UP

Robby Thomas Walsh (Ireland) – Vocals (Roger Glover, Tony Carey, Joe Lynn Turner)
Ian Paice (UK) – Drums (Deep Purple, Whitesnake, Gary Moore)
Murray Gould (UK) – Guitars (Eric Clapton, Elton John, Joe Bonomassa)
Alessandro Debiaggi (Italy)- Keyboards (Has toured with Ian Paice Purpendicular since 2022)
Mauricio Torchio (Italy) – Bass (Has toured with Ian Paice Purpendicular since 2022, here replacing the unavailable Nick Fyffe)

TOUR DATES

17.09. Aarhus(DK) – Train
18.09. Horsholm(DK) – Trommen
19.09. Kolding(DK) – Forum
20.09. Borreby(DK) -Gods
21.09. Greve(DK) – Portalen
23.09. Hamburg(D) – Markthalle
24.09 Drachten(NL) – Iduna
26.09. Zoetermeer(NL) – Boerderij
27.09. Amsterdam(NL) – Q-Factory
29.09. Prague(CZ) – Doupe
01.10. Prague (CZ) – Lucerna Show
02.10. Liberec (CZ) – Dum Kultury
03.10. Pardubice (CZ) – Ideon Kultury Dum
04.10. Plzen(CZ) – Depo 205
06.10. Prague (CZ) – Lucerna
07.10. Brno(CZ) – Sono Music Club
08.10. Ostrava(CZ) – Barrak
09.10. Bratislava(CZ) – Majestic
19.10. Bernau (D) – Stadthalle
20.10. Aschaffenburg(D) – Colos Saal
21.10. Bensheim (D) – Rex
24.10. Regensburg (D) – Airport Halle
26.10. Nürnberg (D) – Hirsch
27.10. Koblenz (D) – Hahn
28.10. Ingolstadt (D) – Eventhalle Westpark
29.10. Bonn (D) – Harmonie