UK rockers MIND FUNK's debut album will be reissued via Ironbird/Cherry Red Records on February 15th, 2010.

According to a press release:

This reissue of Mind Funk’s still impressive debut album has been digitally remastered and features 3 bonus tracks plus new sleeve notes by Jerry Ewing.

1991 saw the release, in chronological order, of SMASHIN PUMPKINS’ Gish, PEARL JAM’s Ten and NIRVANA’s Nevermind, which heralded the arrival of a new musical force called ‘grunge’.

Mind Funk was never a grunge band per se but they did release this, their fine debut album in March 1991. Given the timing of the release, all eyes fell on the guitarist Jason Everman who had featured in both Nirvana and SOUNDGARDEN and, whilst this did help garner press interest, it did unfairly push them into the grunge arena.

In truth, they began life as Mind Fuck. Guitarist Louis Svitek had worked with fellow guitarist Jason Coppola in CHEMICAL WASTE and the pair had worked with bassist John Monte in thrash crossover band M.O.D. They were joined by singer Pat Dunbar from the straight-edge outfit UNIFORM CHOICE and drummer Reed St. Mark who had drummed with legendary avant-garde Swiss metallers CELTIC FROST.

The band secured a deal with Epic Records who, hardly unsurprisingly, forced a change of name to the more media-friendly Mind Funk and they arrived in a blaze of publicity. In the UK the metal press, seduced by grunge, were eager to hail the band whilst MTV granted airplays to the videos for

Big House Burning and Sister Blue.

Tracklisting:

'Sugar Ain’t So Sweet'

'Ride & Drive'

'Bring It On'

'Big House Burning'

'Fire'

'Blood Runs Red'

'Sister Blue'

'Woke Up This Morning'

'Innocence'

'Touch You'

Bonus Tracks:

'Bang Time'

'Velvet Jane'

'Surprise Touch'