Velvet Revolver is set to release a Contraband Deluxe edition honoring the 20th anniversary of the album. According to Qobuz, it will be released on September 13.
Bonus tracks in Velvet Revolver’s Contraband
It has come to light that it will consist of bonus tracks that include: Fall to Pieces (Acoustic), Bodies (Live), Surrender, No More No More, Negative Creep, Money.
‘Contraband’ was the first album for supergroup Velvet Revolver and it was released 20 years ago on 8 June 2024.
Velvet Revolver
The band comprised of Slash (lead guitar), Duff McKagan (bass) and Matt Sorum (drums), all of Guns n’ Roses, Scott Weiland (vocals) of Velvet Revolver and Dave Kushner (rhythm guitar) of Wasted Youth.
The supergroup was formed after the departures of Slash and Duff from Guns n’ Roses in 1996/1997 and Axl Rose fired Sorum from the band. Slash formed Snakepit but that ended in 2001.
In 2002, Slash McKagan and Sorum reunited for a benefit for Randy Castillo’s family following his passing from cancer. That became the origin of what would become Velvet Revolver.
They searched for a singer and that shortlist included Sebastian Bach of Skid Row, Ian Astbury of The Cult and Mike Patton of Faith No More. Scott Weiland was a friend of McKagan, Sorum and Kushner and had initially turned them down because of his Stone Temple Pilots commitments but then Stone Temple Pilots split. In related news, Scott Weiland planned STP & Velvet Revolver reunions.
Velvet Revolver only made a couple of albums. The second, ‘Libertad’, was released in 2007. The band broke up in 2012. Weiland died in 2015.
Contraband tracklisting:
1. Sucker Train Blues
2. Do It For the Kids
3. Big Machine
4. Illegal 1
5. Spectacle
6. Fall To Pieces
7. Headspace
8. Superhuman
9. Set Me Free
10. You Got No Right
11. Slither
12. Dirty Little Thing
13. Loving the Alien
‘Contraband’ was a number one album in the USA, number 2 in Australia and number 11 in the UK. It sold over 2 million copies in the USA and earned the band a Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance for the song ‘Slither’.
