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The Smashing Pumpkins - Zeitgeist

Zeitgeist is The Smashing Pumpkins' official sixth album (excluding Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music, freely distributed via the Internet).

German for Spirit of the Age, it is set to be released on July 7, 2007. It will be the first official album to be released under the Smashing Pumpkins name since 2000, and the first new material to be released since two of its original members, vocalist and guitarist Billy Corgan and drummer Jimmy Chamberlin, reunited in 2006.

Of the other three onetime band members, guitarist James Iha and bassist Melissa Auf der Maur have stated they are not involved, and it seems unlikely that bassist D'arcy Wretzky will return either.