New Nirvana Albums Created by Fans

30 years after Cobain's death, listeners have artificial intelligence and musical fiction to feed their fandom.

When I first found this new Nirvana album, Heaven Is a Hoax, on YouTube, I was like What the hell is going on here? I hadn’t had my morning tea yet.

“Heaven Is A Hoax is an album released by Nirvana in 1996, which shows the true colors the band has to offer,” wrote the YouTube poster, cafeex. “This beautiful piece of work is one of the last true grunge works of the 90’s.”

Wow, I thought, I know this is fake, but the songs “Talk to Me” and “Burn the Rain” were really good.

Some quick Googling delivered a 2020 NME article titled “YouTuber creates fake Nirvana song using artificial intelligence.” The song is called “Smother.”

“Using lyrics.rip to scrape the Genius Lyrics Database,” the YouTuber, Funk Turkey, wrote on his post, “I made a Markov Chain write Nirvana lyrics.” Funk Turkey then played and recorded the music “in my kitchen, on a sparkly red cheap Stratocaster, a crappy mic, and an old copy of ProTools”.

Pretty clever.

Other Nirvana fans went much further.

They took Cobain’s guitar licks and various bits from Montage of Heck: The Home Recordings and used them to flesh out full songs themselves. Fans zeroed in on acoustic Cobain songs like “Creation” and “Opinion” that Nirvana never recorded in the studio. They took demos like “Old Age” and live audience recordings of the song “Talk to Me,” which Nirvana played a few times on tour in 1991—“Talk to Me” could have been a huge radio hit had the band ever recorded it in the studio—and fans heard them and wondered: “What if Nirvana had recorded them properly?” So the fans created those songs themselves, often performing every instrument at home with computer technology Cobain never dreamed of. These are called mockups, covers, and renditions.

“This is my own rendition of Kurt Cobain’s song ‘burn the rain’ from the home recordings album,’ wrote a YouTuber named Harmonova in 2016.

Someone else did “Talk to Me.”

Compare the original song to the fan mockup of this searingly good one-off jam Nirvana made up on stage in Argentina in 1992.

Nirvana:

Fans:

Instead of playing instruments themselves, some fans use existing audio from Nirvana songs to create a savvy exquisite corpse montage.

“Here’s Opinion,” writes TheBeginningofMusic, “the drum stems were taken from Lounge Act, I added a bass guitar and three guitar tracks.”

TheBeginningofMusic used drums from “Lithium,” Cobain’s voice, and their own guitar and bass to mockup Cobain’s solo demo of “Do Re Mi.”

Fans are working hard to channel Cobain. They’re inspired, they’re moved, and they’re hungry for more than Cobain can now give them.

A band in Monterrey NL, Mexico, named To Boddah, has dedicated themselves to this process. “We are long time Nirvana fans,” they write, “and our goal is to record everything that the band didn’t have a proper recording for, so all requests are welcome.”

To Boddah has recorded tons of Nirvana rarities and brought songs to life that have become mythical.

That band is one of many.

“A.I. created the chord progression,” RUBBERTANKBOY wrote on his mockup of “Pure As Water,” “and I then recreated the song using drum samples from in utero. I am now using A.I. to model kurts voice which I think is amazing really, but I still have to sing and sing well for it to work. I also have kurts pedals guitars and amps. cheers!”

Montage of Heck proved a deep well of tantalizing tidbits and speculative material.

Fans take this to the inevitable next level.

They collect those mockups onto whole albums to create what they imagine Nirvana’s albums after In Utero would have sounded like had Cobain lived. Fans make their own covers. They write fictional descriptions of the project for context. And many mix fan-made mockups with existing Nirvana rarities like “Here She Comes Now” and “Moist Vagina.” It’s a trip.

As YouTuber Josias Garcia put it: “Fan-album made of compilations of the best unreleased/weird songs from Nirvana.”

These albums rarely clock in over 30 minutes. Some include early Foo Fighters songs that could have become Nirvana songs, like “Alone + Easy Target.” (Cobain is said to have liked that song.) Many of the same songs appear and reappear: “Talk to Me,” “Burn the Rain,” “Pure As Water,” “Creation,” “Old Age,” “Do Re Mi,” “Nobody Knows I’m New Wave,” “Living The Lie,” “Anorexorcist,” “Burn My Britches,” “Poison’s Gone,” and “Help Me I’m Hungry.”

But not always.

Some fan-made Nirvana albums dispense with Cobain and just use AI to create totally new “Nirvana” songs.

Some fan-made albums look backwards, assembling fictional pre-Nevermind albums from older songs.

Some fans use AI to create songs where Cobain covers songs released after his death, like Foster the Peoples’ “Pumped Up Kicks.”

And some fan-made Nirvana albums spiral out into distant speculative fanfiction territory far from the demos and mockups. Things get weird. Fandom can be pure and natural. And fandom can get dark and consumptive. Wherever these albums come from, most are just for fun, though.

Thirty years after the fact, Cobain’s death created an enduring mystery about the larger musical direction Nirvana could have gone. So many questions remain unanswered that fans have moved to fill that vacuum.

“My god I really wish we got just 1 more album,” someone on YouTube said. We all did.

I’m old enough to have seen Nirvana play. I remember when Nevermind came out. My friends and I loved Bleach and we all sat in someone’s teenage bedroom playing a cassette of Nevermind for the first time. I mean, the first concert I ever bootlegged myself was Nirvana. As a fan, I also wondered what Nirvana would have sounded like if Cobain had lived. So 30-years later, this fan-made stuff is interesting. It’s also confusing.

People think they know certain things. “We know In Utero came out in September,” one fan wrote online, “and several months later Kurt had three complete new songs that we know of, ‘You Know You’re Right,’ ‘Do Re Mi’ and ‘Poison’s Gone.’” Maybe that’s true. Is it?

Cobain has been gone for so long that younger generations can treat him like a character in their own historical fiction—like we Gen Xer’s did with Hendrix and The Doors. “This album takes place in a world where Kurt Cobain never died,” Guitar_Junk wrote about his fan-made album. “He got sober and divorced Courtney. The court also gave Kurt custody of Francis. Dave helped with the song writing. Foo Fighter’s songs like Everlong and My Hero became Nirvana songs.”

For a Gen Xer like me, this all seems like a unique subculture that digital natives created that mixes gamer culture, ’90s nostalgia, and AI-powered artistry—and it’s powered by questionable internet information and a confusing mess of too many posthumous Nirvana releases.

Aj61406, a person who makes these albums, explains on YouTube: “This is a fandom known as Nirvana fan albums, which are alternate universes where Kurt Cobain never dies or dies at a later date but lives longer at least. People like  @Cleberslk and @Handlemymeat make fanmade albums like myself and they create their own alternative universes in the descriptions of their videos and sample together some unreleased material from Nirvana. We are not trying to trigger or anger the family of Kurt Cobain, this is simply a tribute and some fanfiction. I’ve been a fan of Kurt Cobain for over five years and love such songs as Scentless Apprentice and Something in the Way, among others.”

Has any band every moved so many people to such lengths? Besides the Grateful Dead, I mean?

The fan-made album covers don’t always do the band’s legacy justice. The album titles don’t either. (Crack Babies? Really?) Some mockups, like “Burn My Britches,” are just bad. But the spirit of appreciation is usually there. I guess. I don’t know actually. YouTube is a weird place.

Not every Nirvana fan is into this.

“I don’t feel the songs on this mock-up really make the grade,” someone on a thread said. “They’re just not that good. I Know You’re Right is the best one. Not sure if the Dave songs would’ve been put on there either. Doubt they would’ve put the cover of Sunbeam. I think Do Re Mi is just ok. The rest is rather poor.”

“If you’re this dedicated to the pursuit of never listening to another band,” mariteaux wrote on a long post, “instead settling for fainter and fainter scraps of work from a man who’s been dead longer than some of you have been alive, at least do it right.” He called the post “The Desperate, Bottomless Pit of Nirvana Fan Albums.”

He makes many excellent points.

I agree, but you can decide.

I’ve collected some fan-made Nirvana albums here. Thinks of this as Silver: The Best of the Box for fan albums.

Here they are:

Heaven Is A Hoax

Posted in January 2023 by a YouTuber named cafeex: “Heaven Is A Hoax is an album released by Nirvana in 1996 which shows the true colors the band has to offer. This beautiful piece of work is one of the last true grunge works of the 90’s.”

Bliss

In 2018, a YouTube named Jone created this chiller album and its fictional backstory: “Side story: Kurt Cobain (who had been missing since the end of March 1994) calls to Pat Smear and ask for help because he’s thinking about killing himself. Pat talks to Kurt and tells his history with Darby Crash (who committed suicide), and advises him to start treating himself intensely. After treatment, Tom Grant (who was investigating Kurt’s disappearance) would advise Kurt Cobain to divorce. Even with his marriage almost over, Kurt would not listen to the advice. At the end of 1994 the 4th album would be planned and recorded in early 1995, and would be released in the second half of this year. It would sound like R.E.M but it would also have its aggressive side. In Kurt’s diary, he wrote “Bliss” as a possible name for the band. I think the name ironic and that would combine with the situation in which it would be passing and that it isn’t blessed.”

Aborted Christ

BuriedInBlack wrote: “Aborted Christ is the 4th album by grunge rock band Nirvana, released on January 5th of 1995. After the In Utero tour and the Lollapalooza 1994 performance, the band had a clear direction, basing off the songs they teased randomly, and later record and release on their next album, having a much heavier and old school sound. “We don’t have a very specific direction you know, just do whatever we feel like and hoping it’s affordable for the label at least, and hope for the best.” —Kurt Cobain, in a mid January 1995 interview about the album.”

No Guarantee

Posted in August 2023 by Guitar_Junk: “This album takes place in a world where Kurt Cobain never died. He got sober and divorced Courtney. The court also gave Kurt custody of Francis. Dave helped with the song writing. Foo Fighter’s songs like Everlong and My Hero became Nirvana songs.”

Old Age

“This is a fan album I created. DISCLAIMER: I do not own these songs they were written by Kurt Cobain and the rest of Nirvana. This album is a glimpse into an alternate universe when Kurt Cobain didn’t die in 1994. The songs are Sappy, Even in His Youth, Old Age, Burn the Rain, and You Know You're Right.”

The Greenhouse

Posted in 2019 by Josias Garcia: “Fan-album made of compilations of the best unreleased/weird songs from Nirvana.”

ENDOSULFAN

“After a 3 year hiatus following their last album, ‘In Utero’, they begin recording a new album, bringing back older songs, while still moving their sound forward.”

Doppelgangers

fOxXsHoRrOrSiDe posted this album on Oct 16, 2023, stating “This is finally my fan 4th record contribution to Nirvana...”

Made Not Born

In 2018, YouTube Jone shared this album and its side story: “Kurt decides that the next album should be a return to the roots of Nirvana because Perkidan was very slow and melancholic. So this is Made Not Born, an album with fast and aggressive songs.”

IVF

YouTuber lists the sources of the mockups he compiled, which is nice.

Drown Out

Posted by Cleberslk on July 29, 2023: “ATTENTION: This video is not for profit, I just do this for fun”

Final Unplugged

“Review from "NY New Musical Magazine: "Final Unplugged: The Riot Earth Concert" is a secret concert that Nirvana held in New York in a small venue in November 1993, some days after the first unplugged. Virtually no one was aware of it, except a few friends of the band who were invited to the concert. It also includes three songs recorded during a private rehearsal and not performed during the concert. The master tape, slightly damaged but still in good conditions, was miraculously saved from the Universal Studio fire of 2008 and thus contains Nirvana's last true unplugged concert." ....no, not indeed. This is NOT A REAL Nirvana album. It is entirely based on the excellent work of the YT member Riot Earth, original studio vocals by Cobain and instruments recreated to mimick an unplugged performance, check out his channel…This is just a fictional album, fan album, whatever you want. Made with original Kurt songs and vocals, plus new instruments. If you like it, i'm glad. If you don't, i could not care less. Bye ;)”

Solitude

YouTuber Aj61406 spins a detailed narrative: “Shortly after putting Nirvana on hiatus after burnout and future retirement plans for Kurt Cobain from music, Cobain posts his plans for some solo work with Taylor Hawkins on drums on the Nirvana website, some material in similar style to In Utero and the Alice in Chains EP "Jar of Flies", even taking some inspiration from them. Cobain and Hawkins decide to record this album in the near future under the record label Interscope. Cobain states in an interview that this new solo album would not come out until around 2000 or 2001, around or after the new millennium as it's already in the concept stages and with Kurt focusing on family and friends, now that he's back home and on hiatus. Cobain continues to take care of Frances Bean the best way he can while on hiatus. A few Nirvana compilation albums, mainly demos and outtakes, are set to release sometime in January of 1998 under the names "The Nevermind Home Recordings, 1991" and "Nirvana: The Studio Outtakes Compilation". Kurt Cobain performs alongside the Foo Fighters at Lake Tahoe months later in April of 1998, singing some songs from their recent Nirvana album Token Eastern and some Foo Fighters songs. Kurt Cobain starts to write a book on his life, titled "Montage of Heck" in 1998. Besides sculpture making, drawing, and painting, Cobain decides to make a career off writing and selling his diary entries to be viewed by the public. Kurt Cobain's solo project with Taylor Hawkins begins recording sessions for their album at Cobain's home studio. He wants to spend more time around his daughter and less time tirelessly touring and taking his daughter with him. Cobain would rather raise his daughter back in Washington as opposed to traveling constantly and never having enough time to do the things that he wants to do. In another interview around this time on the Howard Stern Show (his first appearance on the radio show), Cobain expresses his anger towards Courtney Love, threatening to place her and her boyfriend in prison if they attempt another custody battle or terrorize Kurt Cobain's life again. He reveals that a minor reason for going on hiatus was to shield his daughter away from those junkies for the time being. The two musicians meet at the studio and the album takes shape as a blend of grunge and experimental rock, featuring Kurt's distinctive songwriting style. Cobain continues to explore his artistic expression both visually and musically, drawing inspiration from his experiences and personal growth. Kurt tries to get a response from former Alice in Chains member Layne Staley via some voicemails to record some material for this Jar of Flies, In Utero inspired album. Layne surprisingly shows up to record a few songs, "Shatter" and "The Things You Do" (a track featuring Layne and Taylor singing together and isn't an unfinished Aftervibes song in this timeline), eventually getting into an argument with Kurt after recording a few takes, causing Layne to leave the home studio. Kurt would never see Layne Staley again after that. He would try to contact Layne for a few months following the unexpected argument with Kurt, but to no avail. He would ultimately stop contacting Layne completely. On July 13th, 1998, The Foo Fighters' second studio album "The Colour and the Shape" is released and features Kurt Cobain singing alongside Dave Grohl in a duet for a few of the tracks, including "Everlong". As the millennium approaches, Nirvana fans anticipate what the band and Kurt Cobain will bring to the world in the new century. Kurt's journey from darkness to creative rebirth continues to inspire and captivate audiences, promising an exciting future for both his music and his art. Nirvana reunites for a special one-night-only performance in Times Square for New Year's Rockin 'Eve to sing some tracks from their album "Nevermind" and the songs Creation, D-7, and Sappy. The performance becomes an unforgettable night for fans as the band makes their first public appearance since a year prior in 1998. Despite Nirvana having gone on hiatus a year prior, the members still talk to each other occasionally and work on their own projects, both musical and activities besides music with Krist Novoselic drifting towards US politics and thinking about ditching music in the future, creating music with his side project Sweet 75. Solitude, Kurt Cobain's first solo album, is officially released in 2000. The album is a fusion of grunge and experimental rock, showcasing Cobain's distinctive songwriting and emotional depth. It receives critical acclaim and becomes a commercial success, solidifying Kurt's status as a musician and artist beyond Nirvana. The album includes tracks like "Shatter," "Horrified," "She Only Lies," "The Things You Do," and "Soaked in Bleach," each with its unique sound and lyrical depth. The later 1990s and 2000s seem to be good and bad times for Cobain (who has to hear about Pavel and Courtney’s issues and hang on tight to his daughter because of that) and Nirvana”

Untitled

Aj61406: “It is now January 2001, it has been nearly a year since the more successful release of Worldwide Lobotomy, and Kurt plans on yet another solo album with plans to release one once every year based on when his last two albums were released by him onto the recently made music website Napster for download. People who are following Kurt Cobain’s mysterious persona begin to draw the connection between Cobain and Mr Mister around this time, something he had been fearing ever since he had produced his first solo album as he did not want to be associated with Nirvana and wanted to raise Frances, now eight, freely and still keeping his distance from Courtney Love. Similar to the last two Mr Mister albums, Cobain includes some home recorded tapes, including a jam with Nirvana known as Weirdo and an unknown live song. There is barely any new material on this new release, but still maintains the sound collage and experimental music theme his project had been known for. Along with Kurt's own material, he notably includes Pat Smear's Golden Boys, the last song written by Darby Crash before his death. An improved version of Come on Death simply called Come on Death V2 is also another notable track off the album. Once again, Kurt Cobain would offer to have Layne Staley show up on this new release, but he never gets an answer back as Layne had been attending rehab and had been in a sober living home recovering under the watchful eyes of Dave Grohl, Mike McCready (from Mad Season and Pearl Jam), roommate Morgen Gallagher, and Jerry Cantrell (Layne Staley does live in this timeline, but I'm still working on his lore), making sure that Staley was doing all right and would not touch any drug whatsoever. Kurt decided to complete the album with all the tracks it had already. Having trouble coming up with a title, he calls the album Untitled, which is released on February 9, 2001 to critical acclaim, much like the last album from 2000. This time, a week after the album had been released, more suspicion began to grow in the music community after Cobain's voice had starting being pitched up on his past solo albums. Some thought this unknown artist was sampling Kurt Cobain's material because of a reverbed version of Moist Vagina and a new (originally recorded as a demo for Fecal Matter) song called Mrs Butterworth, while a larger percentage thought it was Cobain himself which would be the case. Fans would stalk the artist from outside his home more often, causing him to flee to a neighborhood in Orange County not even a few days later and be photographed a week or two before his death, trying out a career as an anonymous visual artist under a different pseudonym, No Face, before finding little success (only completed two art pieces) and ending his own life weeks later through a drug overdose. Very little would be known about Cobain's final weeks and days alive before killing himself. Layne Staley, affected by the overdose suicide of Kurt Cobain in March 2001, would end up sobered by the news of his passing and would be offered to be featured on Jerry Cantrell's next solo album, Degradation Trip, which would be released on November 3, 2001 the critical acclaim instead of 2002 since Layne Staley is still alive. Layne and Jerry would re-record Angel Eyes and Anger Rising, both of which featuring Layne Staley on backing vocals. Alice in Chains isn't broken up in this timeline either, but the band would still remain on hiatus until 2008 to focus on their own solo projects, with Layne recording some music for Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots and Metal Gear Online. Alice in Chains would later break out of hiatus in October 2008 to record some material for their fourth studio album, Dirt & Grime, which would feature notable tracks like "A Looking in View," "Died," (previously on the Music Bank Box Set) "Get Born Again," (also previously on the Music Bank Box Set), "Hollow," and others”

Reflections

Aj61406 spins their narrative: “After Kurt Cobain is taken to a Seattle hospital after a heroin overdose on April 5, 1994, the singer-songwriter continues to battle his demons, gaining custody of Frances Bean and divorcing Courtney Love. He attends rehab multiple times from 1994 to 1997, even threatening to commit suicide in 1995 before being talked out of his suicide attempt by Dave Grohl, who had recently released his first album with his own band, the Foo Fighters. Dave hires a therapist to monitor Kurt Cobain shortly after threatening to kill himself. Despite facing several setbacks, his determination to overcome addiction finally leads him to sobriety after a last-ditch intervention sometime in May of 1997 with his bandmates, Frances Bean, Cobain's therapist, and Wendy Cobain, who takes custody of Frances after Kurt overdoses a few months prior to this intervention and is declared unfit to be Frances' parental figure. During his journey to recovery, Cobain explores various creative outlets, including writing, and is allowed permission to see his daughter again by 1998. He pens heartfelt verses about his experiences, delving into themes of pain, love, and self-discovery. These writings, along with artwork, resonated with fans, and he eventually compiles and publishes books about Cobain's life and time with Nirvana, offering an intimate glimpse into the mind of a troubled yet immensely talented artist. He even signs Nirvana fan's autographs. During this time period, Cobain would join his bandmates in overseeing compilation album releases. In early July of 2014, a reunion of the surviving members of Nirvana takes place years after the release of the group's third studio album, In Utero. Kurt Cobain, Dave Grohl, Pat Smear, Taylor Hawkins, and Krist Novoselic work on what would be Nirvana's fourth and final studio album, Reflections, reflections of the hidden gems of Nirvana and Kurt Cobain's troubled past, respectively. Prior to this reunion, Cobain receives the devastating news of being diagnosed with throat cancer a month prior, and decides to reunite Nirvana one final time for his fans, who had anticipated a Nirvana reunion for nearly two decades at the time. Despite the challenges that lay ahead, the band is determined to create a powerful record that would reflect Cobain's raw emotions and musical brilliance with some new and old Nirvana material. This new album comprises two main elements: tracks recorded in the mid-late 1980s and the early-mid 1990s that were previously unreleased, along with two new songs recorded 2014-2015 that showcases the deterioration of Kurt Cobain's voice over the course of a few months. The combination of old and new material gives the album a unique, nostalgic, and almost In Utero sounding feel, showcasing the evolution of Nirvana's sound over the years. The unreleased songs featured on the album include "Talk to Me", "If You Must", "And I Love Her", "Blathers Log", "Burn the Rain", "Ain't It a Shame", and "The Yodel Song". In contrast, the new tracks, "Drowned In the Sun" and "Broken Out In Love" are particularly poignant, as it reflects Cobain's declining health and vocal deterioration due to his battle with cancer. Both feature Taylor Hawkins harmonizing with Kurt Cobain's voice. The album is released to critical acclaim on January 23, 2015. Fans and critics alike praise the album for its heavy and old school sound, emotional depth in the newer songs, and musical brilliance. Many note that the album is a testament to Kurt Cobain's resilience and unwavering dedication to his art, even in the face of adversity. Tragically, just a month after the album's release the world loses Kurt Cobain to his battle with throat cancer at the young age of 48 on February 22, 2015. His passing is mourned by millions of fans worldwide, leaving a profound impact on the music industry and the grunge movement. Even after his passing, Cobain's poetry, artwork, and books continue to be cherished by fans, offering an intimate glimpse into the mind of one of rock music's most enigmatic and beloved figures.”

E-Coli

Aj61406 keeps their story going: “In early 1996, after recently releasing their fourth studio album, Cobain and crew begin work on their fifth album "E-Coli" together. Kurt Cobain, around this time, despite being on drugs again, is doing slightly better mentally, but is already showing small signs of another breaking point in the near future, refusing to stop working on the album and pretend that he's in perfectly good hands. Nirvana would release E-Coli on January 2, 1997, with Cobain recently discharged from a mental hospital the day prior after further support and examination after he blacks out from a mental health related attack he had from heroin. The details about his drug usage wouldn't become public for nearly a year. Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl are the only ones who know about Kurt Cobain's hospitalization, canceling a few shows due to this. There are also signs that the group is fading away into obscurity, eventually leading to rumors that they would disband after their sixth album, whenever that is supposed to occur. The album is a mixed ball with critics. Months later, Kurt Cobain mysteriously announces that due to blacking out, the cancellation of show dates, and being contained in a mental hospital for a week prior to the album's release, the future of Nirvana is to remain uncertain and that the group will be on indefinite hiatus and even cancel all future tour and concert dates to focus on the rehabilitation process, his final rehab. This is after Krist Novoselic convinces Cobain to enter rehab due to the breakdown he had prior. A tour with Metallica set to take place in March and a tour with the Melvins set to take place in November are both canceled. More fan predictions come along due to this event, leading to many speculating that the band would quietly break up or that Cobain would try to commit suicide in the near future due to his limbo mental state (acting normal then having occasional breakdowns) and failed attempts at remaining clean in the past. The band would basically never be heard from again for a while, until at least almost four years after Cobain stated that he would be in rehab again to the public in '97, now appearing visibly unkempt but in a calmer-ish state until his final breaking point in 2001 from exhaustion, fame, further descent into depression, his daughter being taken due to false claims from Courtney Love, and so forth. Kurt Cobain moves to an unknown location in Washington to further seclude himself for as long as he feels, seeing the big city as a place that is full of threats, people who want to take photos of him and share them with the media. Kurt Cobain keeps his location a secret and refuses to do interviews for the time being. The chalk message (featured on the cover of the album) "They hung him for me" pays homage to Kurt's idol, Leadbelly, and homage to the Nirvana cover of his 1933 song "They Hung Him On a Cross' ' featured on E-Coli. The game of hangman representing Kurt Cobain's suicidal side. During Nirvana's indefinite hiatus, he remaines absolutely private about his current status at this point (even going as far as refusing to do interviews, the start to a state of reclusiveness for Cobain) and reportedly retired from the public and the music scene briefly (for two and a half years) from 1998-2000. As the internet becomes popular in the 1990s, rumors begin spreading in 1999 that Kurt Cobain died of suicide via hanging. These rumors are debunked by Cobain's family, who update Nirvana fans on rare occasions about his life during this dark period. Cobain's mental health has once again dipped down and is close to retiring from public appearances and music all together, this time permanently in the near future. Dave Grohl joins the recently-formed Queens of the Stone Age, recording some material for the 1997 EP Kyuss/Queens. Krist Novoselic forms Sweet 75 around the same time. Everyone who at least sees Kurt Cobain for a brief moment during this timeframe grow concerned and have immediate feelings of worry flow through them, not understanding that Cobain is becoming a recluse and a shell of his former self over time, his physical appearance changing slightly. It would only get worse for Cobain by 2002.”

Life In a Flower Field

“Hello, This is a small experiment with AI, all the songs that are in this "album" are made with it. I recorded a couple of songs myself, and put the voice of Cobain. All rights to Nirvana or whatever, Dave Grohl, Kurt Cobain, Krist Novoselic. It was interesting for me to try playing with the neural network and see what it can do) If you liked it please like it)”

Dire

Dysmorphia

Needed Me

DeluxoVR: “This is an AI Album of 3 songs made by RUBBERTANKBOY (he/she used ai to generate music) used with vocal cords of Kurt Cobain. What is artificial intelligence? Artificial intelligence (AI) is the ability of a computer or a robot controlled by a computer to do tasks that are usually done by humans because they require human intelligence and discernment. This is not an official Nirvana album but an inspiration.”

Crack Babies

Spider Baby

Deeper mellower cuts here.

You Know You’re Right

AI hard at work.

Ivy League

To Boddah

Ok.

You get the idea.