YUNGBLUD Teams With Smashing Pumpkins for New Version of ‘Zombie’
The track arrives just a few weeks ahead of YUNGBLUD’s highly anticipated Australian tour.
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UK rock saviour YUNGBLUD has teamed with Smashing Pumpkins for a new rendition of his hit single ‘Zombie’.
Nominated for best rock song at the 2026 Grammy Awards, ‘Zombie’ is taken from YUNGBLUD’s fourth album IDLES, which topped the UK Album Charts and made it to #4 on the ARIA Album Charts.
The track sees YUNGBLUD and Billy Corgan team up on a guitar-heavy version of ‘Zombie’, with Corgan singing a verse and the rest of the Pumpkins playing a supporting role.
In a recent interview with Loudwire, YUNGBLUD explained how Smashing Pumpkins influenced the song.
“When I was making ‘Zombie,’ I was really channelling Siamese Dream,” he told the publication. “It was really the sadness and the melancholic emotion mixed with the aggression of Billy’s fucking guitars… Billy, as a songwriter, was really at the forefront of my inspiration when I was making this album. When ‘Zombie’ came along, I knew I wanted to do a new version of it.”
YUNGBLUD goes on to talk about ringing Corgan and asking him to be on the track, with the two connecting less than two weeks later in Chicago and laying down the song and recording a music video that drops tomorrow, Saturday 3 January, at 4:30am.
The release of ‘Zombie’ comes just a couple of weeks out from YUNGBLUD’s highly anticipated Australian leg of his IDOLS World Tour, which sees support from Brisbane trio Dune Rats.
YUNGBLUD’s tour kicks off at Sydney’s Qudos Bank Arena on Saturday 10 January, followed by concerts at Melbourne’s Sidney Myer Music Bowl on Tuesday 13 January, Adelaide’s AEC Arena on Thursday 15 January, two shows at Brisbane’s Riverstage on Saturday 17 January and Sunday 18 January, before he wraps things up at Perth’s Ice Cream Factory on Tuesday 20 January.
Limited tickets are still available now via frontiertouring.com.
2025 was a massive year for YUNGBLUD that saw him release his critically acclaimed fourth studio album IDOLS, perform ‘Changes’ with Black Sabbath at the Back To The Beginning benefit concert and release his first collaborative EP with Aerosmith, One More Time.
Catch Yungblud at AEC Arena on Thursday 15 January. Tickets on sale now via frontiertouring.com.
Yungblud IDOLS 2026 Australian Tour Dates
with special guests Dune Rats
Saturday 10 January – Qudos Bank Arena, Sydney, NSW
Tuesday 13 January – Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne, VIC
Thursday 15 January – AEC Arena, Adelaide, SA
Saturday 17 January – Riverstage, Brisbane, QLD SOLD OUT
Sunday 18 January – Riverstage, Brisbane, QLD
Tuesday 20 January – Ice Cream Factory, Perth, WA SOLD OUT
