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| Released | 19 July 1993 | |||
| Recorded | May 1992 – March 1993[1] | |||
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| Genre | Hard rock | |||
| Length | 50:17 | |||
| Label | RCA | |||
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The Battle Rages On... is the fourteenth studio album by the English rock band Deep Purple, released on 19 July 1993 in Europe. It is the last album recorded with the band's classic Mk II line-up, which reunited for a second time (the first reunion being for 1984's Perfect Strangers).
Joe Lynn Turner was fired from the band during the early sessions, with Mike DiMeo initially chosen as his replacement.[3] At the insistence of Jon Lord, Ian Paice and Roger Glover (as well as the band's management and record company), Ian Gillan eventually returned to the band during late 1992 in place of DiMeo, thus reforming the Mk II line-up. Gillan had to rework much of the material already existing for the album, which had been intended for Turner and/or DiMeo. Ritchie Blackmore allegedly became infuriated by Gillan's re-writes, believing the songs were more melodic in their original versions, and he left the band for the second and final time after a show on 17 November 1993 in Helsinki, Finland. Joe Lynn Turner later quoted Blackmore referring to the album as "The cattle grazes on".[4] American guitarist Joe Satriani joined Deep Purple as a temporary replacement for the remainder of the tour. A handful of working tracks written during The Battle Rages On... sessions would turn up on subsequent solo releases by Turner under different song titles.
- ^ Popoff, Martin (2018). The Deep Purple Family, vol 2 (2nd ed.). Wymer Publishing. p. 169. ISBN 978-1-908724-87-8.
- ^ Popoff, Martin (2018). The Deep Purple Family, vol 2 (2nd ed.). Wymer Publishing. p. 171. ISBN 978-1-908724-87-8.
- ^ "Mike DiMeo of Riot/The Lizards/Masterplan | Rikki Rampage's WORLD OF ROCK Forum".
- ^ Barton, Geoff (9 March 2005). "Welcome Back... Joe Lynn Turner". TeamRock.com. Retrieved 22 March 2017.