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Minus The Bear have announced a newly remastered 20th anniversary edition of “Menos el Oso.” The deluxe effort will be released on August 22 and it will include five demos and a 24-page photo journal called “Los Archivos Del Oso.” The first single, a demo version of “Hooray,” can be found below:

“Menos el Oso” 20th Anniversary Track Listing:

01. “The Game Needed Me”
02. “Memphis & 53rd”
03. “Drilling”
04. “The Fix”
05. “El Torrente”
06. “Pachuca Sunrise”
07. “Michio’s Death Drive”
08. “Hooray”
09. “Fulfill the Dream”
10. “The Pig War”
11. “This Ain’t a Surfin’ Movie”
12. “Hooray” (demo)
13. “Drilling” (demo)
14. “The Pig War” (demo)
15. “Michio’s Death Drive” (demo)
16. “I’m Totally Not Down With Rob’s Alien” (demo)

Guitarist Dave Knudson commented:

“We toured so much for ‘Menos el Oso‘ — all these songs and riffs are stuck in my muscle memory like core childhood memorie. The fingers and feet instinctively know where to tap and stomp at just the right time to make the notes and melodies leap out of my guitar. We were trying to push the envelope back in 2005 on this one, “incorporating glitchy guitar samples, hip-hop breakbeats and more electronic elements to the sound we had established on ‘Highly Refined Pirates‘. Proud to say that 20 years later it still sounds fresh and I’m grateful people keep coming back to it as one of their favorites!”

Vocalist/guitarist Jake Snider added:

“Oso is a band and fan favorite! We came into our sound on this record. Excited people get to hear these demos for the first time! Revisiting demos and hearing the evolution of some of these tracks puts me right back in our early 2000s practice space. And now we’re literally back in that same practice space for rehearsals. It’s wild!”