Deep Purple put out their 20th studio album inFinite back in April and are now on the road promoting the ever living crap out of it with a tour titled The Long Goodbye (which many interpret as being their final/farewell tour). In the mean time though, in order to further promote the album the band recently released a new music video for the song The Surprising (which can be watched above).
The video is an animated narrative of the band sailing through frosty, difficult northern waters. The video nods to all parts of the band's past (even the ones without Ian Gillan and Roger Glover) as they make their way through powerful storms until they finally come out the other end to a calm, peaceful sunset where the band can finally rest and metaphorically call it a day.
I definitely like the animation style, although some parts were just a tad bit stiff for my preference. That said, I love that the band was willing to celebrate all parts of their past regardless of what line-up played on each album represented. It matched the song perfectly and everything that happened in the video seemed to flow with the music perfectly. I'm not often a fan of music videos that the band/artist doesn't actually physically appear in, but this video is for sure an exception.
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