Primal Scream today share, Evil Heat (listen here), the final instalment of The Bunker Trilogy, a series of newly mastered and expanded albums spanning 1997 through to 2002. Available across double LP, CD and digitally, The Bunker Trilogy is available now – listen/purchase HERE.
Evil Heat is the third album to be released from The Bunker Trilogy, a special collection housing three of Primal Scream’s most revered and experimental albums: Vanishing Point, XTRMNTR, and Evil Heat, out today. Each album includes new mixes, unheard material and b-sides, plus new liner notes. An exclusive collection box set housing the trio of LPs, and 12” single ‘If They Move Kill Em’, is also available now HERE.
From 1997 through to 2002 Primal Scream released three albums – Vanishing Point, XTRMNTR and Evil Heat – signaling one of their most daring and influential periods. Originally recorded in the North London studio built by Andrew Innes and Bobby Gillespie, nicknamed ‘the bunker’, the albums pushed the boundaries of rock, electronica, dub, and industrial music in the way that only they could.
The journey from 1994’s Give Out But Don’t Give Up to Vanishing Point saw Primal Scream dismantle and reimagine the very concept of a rock band. Through a radically new creative approach, they stripped everything back to the group’s essential core: the songwriting partnership and musical direction of Bobby Gillespie and Andrew Innes.
The band’s era-defining Screamadelica album celebrated its 30th anniversary with huge sold out gigs across the UK, including London’s Alexandra Palace. Gillespie teamed with Paul Weller writing lyrics for ‘Soul Wandering’ from album 66, and collaborated with Jehnny Beth in Paris writing and recording the Utopian Ashes album of duets. Bobby also recently collaborated with Yttling Jazz on new track Strange, with acid house duo Paranoid London on their song ‘People (Ah Yeah)’ and sang and co-wrote ‘Prisoner of Beauty’ with The Limiñanas. He also composed his first movie soundtrack for the cinematic release Five Hectares with French filmmaker Émilie Deleuze and sang on six new songs on the new Peter Perrett album, The Cleansing.
2026 XTRMNTR UK Tour
1st September – Dundee LiveHouse
3rd September – Glasgow, Barrowland
4th September – Glasgow, Barrowland
5th September – Glasgow, Barrowland
8th September – Newcastle, NX
9th September – Nottingham, Rock City
11th September – Manchester, New Century Hall
12th September – Manchester, New Century Hall
13th September – Bristol, Electric
15th September – London, HERE at Outernet
16th September – London, HERE at Outernet
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