Rancid is releasing a remastered reissue of their iconic album ...And Out Come the Wolves this week in celebration of the record's 20th anniversary. The vinyl LP of the anniversary reissue comes with a poster with lyrics on one side and the album cover on the other. The digital version will include two additional bonus tracks that were recorded along with the rest of ...And Out Come the Wolves back in 1995 but didn't make the original cut entitled "Blast 'Em" and "That's Entertainment." It comes out November 27th via Epitaph just in time for Record Store Day Black Friday.
To reiterate a point made by Stereogum's Tom Breihan on the album's actual anniversary back in August, "Rancid were a thing in 1995, and ...And Out Come The Wolves was their first album since becoming a thing." The album marked the band's reintroduction of ska into their sound, but a totally different kind of ska than band members Tim Armstrong and Matt Freeman had previously mastered with Operation Ivy. The album has been lauded by countless critics as one of the most defining albums of its decade, and features a number of tracks now considered punk classics, including "Time Bomb," "Ruby Soho," and "Roots Radical" which you can watch the video for below.
In a statement announcing the remastered reissue, Epitaph Records paid homage to the famed punk producer, Jerry Finn, who died in 2008: "Re-mastered for the first time since its release, in 1994, when digital mastering was in its infancy, this re-issue is a first opportunity to hear this incredible record in all its stunning hard-hitting fidelity - the way it was always meant to be heard. The way, the late great, Jerry Finn would have wanted it." Finn, of course, worked on Rancid's albums ...And Out Come the Wolves and Life Won't Wait and is also remembered for his mixing and production work with numerous bands during the height of the mid-1990s punk revival including Green Day, Blink-182, The Offspring, Weezer, Bad Religion and Alkaline Trio just to name a few.
As Punk News reports, the band is scheduled to headline the 25th annual Groezrock festival to be held in Meerhout, Belgium on April 29th and 30th 2016. They plan to play ...And Out Come The Wolves in its entirety there. They also have some New Years' dates scheduled for the West Coast.
