RANCID - AND OUT COME THE WOLVES RANCID

...And Out Come the Wolves is the third studio album by American punk rock band Rancid. It was released on August 22, 1995, through Epitaph Records.

Rancid's popularity and catchy songs made them the subject of a major label bidding war (hence the title, ...And Out Come the Wolves, taken from a poem in Jim Carroll's The Basketball Diaries) that ended with the band staying on Epitaph. With a sound heavily influenced by ska, which called to mind Tim Armstrong and Matt Freeman's past in Operation Ivy, Rancid became one of the few bands of the mid-to-late 1990s punk rock boom to retain much of its original fan base.

In terms of record sales and certifications, ...And Out Come the Wolves is one of the band's most successful albums in the United States. It produced three singles: "Roots Radicals", "Time Bomb" and "Ruby Soho", which earned Rancid its heaviest airplay on MTV and radio stations to date. All three singles charted on the Modern Rock Tracks chart. ...And Out Come the Wolves was certified Gold by the RIAA on January 22, 1996, and Platinum on September 23, 2004.

Along with Bad Religion's Stranger Than Fiction, Green Day's Dookie and The Offspring's Smash, ...And Out Come the Wolves helped revive mainstream interest in punk rock in the mid-1990s, signalled the initial rise of mainstream punk rock, and proved to be a landmark release for the band. To coincide with its 20th anniversary, Rancid performed the album live in its entirety on their 2015–2016 Honor Is All We Know world tour.