Abandon is the sixteenth studio album by the English hard rock band Deep Purple, released in May 1998.

The album was followed by a successful 1998/1999 world tour which brought Deep Purple to Australia for the first time in 15 years.

In 1999 a live album and DVD Total Abandon: Australia '99 recorded in Melbourne on 20 April 1999 was released.

It featured a reworking of a previously recorded song – "Bloodsucker" from Deep Purple in Rock (here spelled "Bludsucker").

[4] Vocalist Ian Gillan takes a spoken word approach in the verses to the song, comparable to rapping.