Smashing Pumpkins: Return to the crisp rock of the early years

It's a return to the crisp rock of the early years! The Smashing Pumpkins are back - and they are in the shape of their greatest years.

The long story short: They climbed to the highest peaks of success together, created classics like "Disarm" and "Bullet with Butterfly Wings"together, quarreled, split up and are now one heart and one soul again.

For the new 13th album of his smashed pumpkins, singer Billy Corgan not only has guitarist James Iha and drummer Jimmy Chamberlin back on board, but the three also sound as crisp as they used to.

"Aghori Mhori Mei" is the successor to the over-the-top rock opera "Atum", and the ten new songs strive to continue where the monumental "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness"left off two decades ago.

They are playing hymns and bangers, sometimes it's opera, sometimes it is metal. It's goog to have them back in this cruel times of boring music.

Smashing Pumpkins, Aghoro Mhori Mei,