The Smashing Pumpkins have announced their new album, ATUM, the third part of a trilogy that started with 1995’s Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness and 2000’s Machina / The Machines Of God. A rock musical set across 33 tracks, Billy Corgan reveals to Kerrang! that he first had the idea “four to five years ago”, and eventually spent two years working solidly on it – at the same time as the band were working on 2020’s Cyr. Staggering the release to coincide with episodes of Billy’s new podcast, Thirty-Three With William Patrick Corgan (during which he’ll reveal a song a week, with the first two episodes available to hear now), the album will emerge in three ‘acts’, 11 weeks apart. The first comes on November 15, which will be followed by Act II on January 31, 2023. ...