In 1994 and 1996, dEUS released Worst Case Scenario and In a Bar Under the Sea, two albums that didn’t just introduce a band, but quietly rewired the possibilities of European alternative rock. Worst Case Scenario arrived fully formed yet thrillingly unstable: wiry guitars, fractured rhythms, and Tom Barman’s half-spoken, half-sung narratives drifting between paranoia and pop. Songs like “Suds & Soda” and “Via” felt less like singles than dispatches from a band inventing its own internal logic in real time.
In a Bar Under the Sea pushed that logic to its breaking point. Looser, stranger, and more communal in spirit, the album folded jazz phrasing, off-kilter pop hooks, and moments of near-chaos into something that still somehow cohered. It captured a band refusing to settle, embracing excess and experimentation at a moment when European guitar music rarely dared to sound this restless or this alive.
Now, widely regarded as Belgium’s most influential rock band, dEUS & [PIAS] Recordings will rerelease both albums as 3LP and 2CD expanded 30th Anniversary sets, including long lost B-Sides and rarities.
Tracklist
CD 1 - Album:
1. I Don't Mind What Ever Happens Fell Off the Floor, Man
2. Opening Night
3. Theme from Turnpike
4. Little Arithmetics
5. Gimme The Heat
6. Serpentine
7. A Shocking Lack Thereof
8. Supermarketsong
9. Memory Of A Festival
10. Guilty Pleasures
11. Nine Threads
12. Disappointed in the Sun
13. Roses
14. Wake Me Up Before I Sleep
CD 2 - B-sides & rarities:
1. Worried About Satan
2. Overflow
3. My Little Contessa
4. My Wife Jan
5. The Tugboat
6. Everything Is The Same (Except No One Believes Me)
7. I Suffer Rock
8. Difficult Day
9. Me And Your Mother
10. Opening Night (Live, ‘Basta’ at Studio Brussel)
11. Roses (Vermeersch Version)
12. A Shocking Lack Thereof (demo version)
13. Nine Threads (demo version)