Photo: Casten Windhorst
Stone Temple Pilots are the latest band to offer fans a super deluxe reissue, with their 1992 debut album Core seeing a re-release this September to mark its 25th anniversary.
Rhino will repackage the record alongside over two hours of unreleased material, spread across four CDs. The first features the album in full, the second contains demos, while the band’s live shows at Reading Festival and the Castaic Lake Natural Amphitheater in 1993, are on the third.
Among the biggest draws is the fourth disc, however, which includes the group’s entire performance on MTV Unplugged in 1993, including a cover of David Bowie’s Andy Warhol.
The set also contains a DVD of the videos for the band’s first four singles, a vinyl copy of the album, and a hardcover book.
Fans who pre-order the release now, which is strictly limited to 15,000 copies, will also receive a replica of the seven inch single version of Plush, released only in the UK in 1993.
Should the $135 cost of the full package (around £100) be out of your budget, a double CD version, containing the remastered album and the demos is also being made available, as well as a single CD edition.
Stone Temple Pilots’ original frontman Scott Weiland died in 2015 after an accidental overdose of cocaine, alcohol and prescription drugs. His ex-wife, in frank letter to Rolling Stone Magazine, urged fans to “make this the first time we don't glorify this tragedy with talk of rock and roll and the demons that, by the way, don't have to come with it.”
Linkin Park’s late frontman Chester Bennington was also the lead singer of the band for a stint, departing in 2015 to focus more on his main band. Bennington died last week of an apparent suicide.
The reissue of Core is due on September 29 via Rhino. You can pre-order it here.
