Primal Scream have announced details of their forthcoming expanded reissues of ‘Vanishing Point’, ‘XTRMNTR’ and ‘Evil Heat’ – find all the details below.
Dubbed ‘The Bunker Trilogy’, the collection will be released on double LP, CD and digitally throughout the autumn, beginning on August 7 with 1997’s ‘Vanishing Point’.
Their 2000 follow-up will land on September 4, with 2002’s ‘Evil Heat’ lined up for October 30, following their full 2026 ‘XTRMNTR’ UK anniversary tour. You can pre-order it here.
The collection will include new mixes, unheard material, b-sides, and new liner notes.
“The albums constituting ‘The Bunker Trilogy’ were the complete antithesis of everything that was going on in UK music in the 1990s. We were making uncompromising aggressive experimental pop and rock music with lyrics about psychic dislocation, addiction, alienation, depression, questioning our very existence and documenting the dark sleazy underbelly of UK youth culture,” said frontman Bobby Gillespie of ‘The Bunker Trilogy’
“We were wary of New Labour and its neo-liberal trojan horse policies and we were prescient in our prediction of the resurgence of fascism, militarism and Imperialism to come in the 21st century. We were not ever ‘Britpop’ – we wanted to burn the flag, not wave it.”
He added: “Whilst the rest of the UK music and cultural scene fell in love with itself, convinced by their own genius, drowning in an orgy of narcissism and cocaine in a permanent self-aggrandising state, we had had our times of utopian thinking at the beginning of the decade but were now full of disgust for ourselves and the world.
“Out of that self-reflecting mood came the albums ‘Vanishing Point’, ‘XTMTR’ and ‘Evil Heat’. All recorded at our north London studio, The Bunker. We are quietly ecstatic that these albums have all been newly mastered complete with the necessary ‘B’ sides from the times and will once again be available on vinyl, CD and streaming platforms, as this is a body of work that we are very, very proud of.”
The tracklisting for Primal Scream’s ‘The Bunker Collection’ is:
‘Vanishing Point’
Side A
‘Burning Wheel’
‘Get Duffy’
‘Kowalski’
Side B
‘Star’
‘If They Move Kill ‘Em’
‘Out Of The Void’
‘Stuka’
Side C
‘Medication’
‘Motorhead’
‘Trainspotting’
‘Long Life’
Side D – Bonus Tracks
’96 Tears’ (B-Side to ‘Kowalski’ single)
‘Jesus’ (B-Side to ‘Star’)
‘How Does It Feel To Belong’ (B-Side to ‘Star’ 12 inch single)
‘Rebel Dub’ (B-Side to ‘Star’ 12 inch single)
‘Hammond Connection’ (B-Side to ‘Burning Wheel’ 7 inch single)
‘XTRMNTR’
Side A
‘Kill All Hippies’
‘Accelerator’
‘Exterminator’
‘Swastika Eyes (Jagz Kooner mix)’
Side B
‘Pills’
‘Bloody Money’
‘Keep Your Dreams’
‘Insect Royalty’
Side C
‘MBV Arkestra (If They Move Kill ‘Em)’
‘Swastika Eyes (Chemical Brothers mix)’
‘Shoot Speed / Kill Light’
Side D Bonus Tracks
‘The Reckoning’ (Previously Unreleased)
‘I’m Five Years Ahead Of My Time (Brendan Lynch Mix)’ (Previously Unreleased)
‘When The Kingdom Comes’ (B-Side to ‘Accelerator’ 12 inch Single)
‘Exterminator (Massive Attack Remix)’ (B-Side to ‘Kill All Hippies’ 12 inch)
‘The Revenge Of The Hammond Connection’ (B-Side to ‘Kill All Hippies’ 12 inch single)
‘Evil Heat’
Side A
‘Deep Hit Of Morning Sun’
‘Miss Lucifer’
‘Detroit’
‘Autobahn 66’
Side B
‘Rise’
‘The Lord Is My Shotgun’
‘City’
‘Some Velvet Morning’
Side C
‘Skull X’
‘A Scanner Darkly’
‘Space Blues Number 2’
Side D Bonus Tracks
‘Autobahn 66 (Radio Edit)’
‘Some Velvet Morning (Jagz Kooner Mix )’
‘Substance D (Andy Weatherall Mix of ‘A Scanner Deeply’)’ (B-side to ‘Autobahn 66’ 12 inch single)
‘Some Velvet Morning (Disco Heater Dub)’ (B-side to ‘Some Velvet Morning’ 12 inch)
‘Country Blues #1’ (B-side to ‘Some Velvet Morning’ 12 inch)‘
‘If They Move Kill Em’ 12 inch Single’
A1 – ‘If They Move Kill ‘Em (My Bloody Valentine Arkestra)’
A2 – ‘If They Move Kill ‘Em (12 inch Disco Mix)’
B1 – ‘Darklands’
B2 – ‘Badlands’
Meanwhile, Primal Scream will kick off their ‘XTRMNTR’ UK anniversary tour with a two-night homecoming at Glasgow’s iconic Barrowland on September 3 and 4, before wrapping in London at HERE Outernet on September 15.
At each show, Primal Scream will perform ‘XTRMNTR’ live in its entirety, following the band’s 25th anniversary performance of the record at London’s Roundhouse back in December, and follows the world tour in support of their acclaimed 2024 album, ‘Come Ahead’.
Find all the dates here and purchase any remaining tickets here.