The Smashing Pumpkins Announce Rock Opera 'ATUM,' a Sequel to 'Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness'

Listen to the new song "Beguiled"

BY Alex HudsonPublished Sep 20, 2022

The Smashing Pumpkins have announced a sequel to 1995's Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness and 2000's Machina/Machine of God. ATUM will be out in a series of instalments in the coming months, and the song "Beguiled" is out now.

ATUM is pronounced "autumn," and it's a 33-song rock opera divided into three 11-song acts, which will come out every 11 weeks. Act 1 lands on November 15, followed by Act 2 on January 31, and finally, Act 3 on April 21. Also on April 21, a box set will arrive featuring all 33 songs, plus 10 bonus cuts.

Hear "Beguiled" below. ATUM's tracklist is below that. "Beguiled" comes from Act 2. Frontman Billy Corgan will be premiering unreleased songs through his new iHeartRadio podcast Thirty-Three with William Patrick Corgan, which will have 33 episodes.

The Smashing Pumpkins will be touring North America with Jane's Addiction this fall, including a few Canadian shows.


ATUM:

Act 1:
1. Atum

2. Butterfly Suite

3. The Good in Goodbye

4. Embracer

5. With Ado I Do

6. Hooligan

7. Steps in Time

8. Where Rain Must Fall

9. Beyond the Vale

10. Hooray!

11. The Gold Mask

Act 2:
1. Avalanche

2. Empires

3. Neophyte

4. Moss

5. Night Waves

6. Space Age

7. Every Morning

8. To the Grays

9. Beguiled

10. The Culling

11. Springtimes

Act 3:
1. Sojourner

2. That Which Animates the Spirit

3. The Canary Trainer

4. Pacer

5. In Lieu of Failure

6. Cenotaph

7. Harmageddon

8. Fireflies

9. Intergalactic

10. Spellbinding

11. Of Wings

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