Super Deluxe 8LP Box Set

With Nirvana’s final record “In Utero” celebrating 30 years since it was originally birthed into the world on September 21st, a month later will see the release of a massive reissue project celebrating the record’s legacy. Dropping October 27th, the expanded, remastered edition includes over 50 additional tracks between its five B-sides and bonus tracks and several LPs comprised of previously unreleased live recordings, including the band’s last-ever set in Seattle in 1994.

“In Utero” marked the third album from the band – comprised of Kurt Cobain, Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl – and became their final album of original material before Kurt died by suicide at age 27 in April 1994, following a battle with drugs and depression.

The reissue comes in all shapes and sizes, with Deluxe and Super Deluxe Box Sets available on both vinyl and CD as well as in digital format. The Super Deluxe vinyl set comes with all sorts of additional benefits, such as a 48-page hardcover book featuring unreleased photos, a 20-page fanzine, a tour poster lithograph and gig fliers, and plenty more collectible items.

Among the unreleased material, two full “In Utero”-era concerts, namely “Live In Los Angeles” (1993) and the band’s final Seattle performance, “Live In Seattle” (1994), are included in addition to six bonus live tracks from Rome, Springfield, and New York. Seattle producer and engineer Jack Endino who produced the band’s 1988 debut album, “Bleach” has reconstructed the live tracks from stereo soundboard tapes for this year’s reissue.

Additionally, “In Utero’s” original twelve songs, along with five bonus tracks and B-sides, have been newly remastered from the original analogue master stereo tapes by Bob Weston at Chicago Mastering Services—who assisted Albini as the only other engineer at the original sessions.

Nirvana recorded “In Utero” in just over the course of six days in February 1993 at Pachyderm Studio in Cannon Falls, MN with Albini.

Retrospectively, the album was rated it a rare perfect score of “10.0” , “In Utero is the sort of painful shock that, paradoxically, re-instills the empowering sensation of feeling alive.” Upon its arrival back in 1993, David Fricke wrote in Rolling Stone, “In Utero” is a lot of things—brilliant, corrosive, enraged and thoughtful, most of them all at once. But more than anything, it’s a triumph of the will.”

The Super Deluxe Edition box sets also boast a removable front-cover acrylic panel with the album’s iconic Angel; a 48-page hardcover book with unreleased photos; a 20-page newly designed fanzine; a Los Angeles tour poster lithograph by hot rod artist Coop; replicas of the 1993 record store promo Angel mobile, three gig fliers, two ticket stubs for Los Angeles and Seattle, an All-Access tour laminate, and four cloth sticky tour backstage passes: Press, Photo, After Show, and Local Crew.

To say that Nirvana’s third and ultimately final studio album “In Utero” was one of the most impactful records of the modern era would be an understatement. Originally released September 21st, 1993, “In Utero’s” unadorned sonic rawness was received by critics and fans with equal measures of shock and elation, as Steve Albini’s recording laid bare every primal nuance of the most confrontational yet vulnerable material Kurt Cobain, Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl would ever put to record.

The 30th anniversary of “In Utero”, several multi-format reissues will arrive on October 27th, 2023. Configurations include a limited-edition 8LP Super Deluxe box set, 5CD Super Deluxe box set, 1 LP + 10” edition, 2CD Deluxe edition, and a Digital Super Deluxe edition.