Smashing Pumpkins have just announced its 26-date "The World Is A Vampire" tour dates. Joining the band at assorted dates are Stone Temple Pilots, Interpol, and Rival Sons. General on-sales for the shows start on Friday, March 31st at 10 a.m. local. Pumpkins leader Billy Corgan said ninth tour announcement, "I grew up in a world where I needed to know bands like Siouxie And The Banshees and the Cure existed, it meant there was a place for people like me to hang out and belong. That's what 'The World Is A Vampire' is about. Bringing back that sense of community. If you don't fit in, you belong here. It's about having a shared experience and respecting others, but ultimately having fun. A true alternative festival, where all the self-proclaimed weirdos and outsiders of the world can get together and have a party." Smashing Pumpkins will release Act 3 the third volume in its Atum trilogy on May 5th, with Blabbermouth reporting, "Act 3
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Smashing Pumpkins singer / songwriter Billy Corgan admitted his guitar riff based-songs are usually inspired by his early metal guitar heroes. Corgan thrilled fans with the news of the latest Pumpkins project Atum (pronounced "autumn"), which will drop in April 2023. The "three-act rock opera" is part of the trilogy that follows 1995's Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness and 2000's Machina/Machines Of God. The new 33-track collection will be "revealed chronologically each week on Corgan's podcast, Thirty-Three with William Patrick Corgan." Morgan shed light on his guitar influences to Kerrang!, explaining, "Tony Iommi from Black Sabbath, he's my hero, and Tony wrote those riffs that, when you hear him, it's like a movie. In my mind, I always call it 'Cosmic Sabbath.' When I would listen to Sabbath, I felt like I was peering into the universe. That's the way it made me feel, even as a little kid. So for me a