Billy Corgan confirms two new Smashing Pumpkins albums for 2015

Good news (or bad news depending on how you look at it) for Smashing Pumpkins fans, as two new albums have been confirmed for 2015. 

The news comes as Billy Corgan struck a deal with BMG for a dual album release, due to be the follow up to 2012's Oceania. Entitled Monuments To An Elegy and Day For Night, they are scheduled in for release next year with Corgan expecting the release of the first single later this year. 

Recording officially began yesterday (25 March) with Corgan promising a return to the harder edged, metallic sounding Smashing Pumpkins that fans have been clamouring for. Producer Howard Willing will be working on the album, the last Corgan record he worked on being Adore in 1998.

“Think: ‘guitars, guitars, guitars, and more guitars;’ but more so on the epic side of things than say, grossly metallic," said Corgan, describing the new record. 

At the same time the Smashing Pumpkins website has been totally revamped, including a feature called the Panapticon, there to document the band's progress on the new record. “A continuing feature,” he explained, “items regarding each day’s recording will be shared that same evening, with song titles, lyrics, poetic impressions, pictures, sound clips, studio gear and the like offered for a circuitous, bird’s eye view of the process as it.”