

In Paul Brannigan’s biography, This Is A Call: The Life and Times of Dave Grohl, the drummer shared, “ Nevermind and In Utero are two totally different albums.

Produced by former Big Black frontman Steve Albini, who was also behind two of Cobain’s favourite records, Pixies’ Surfer Rosa and The Breeders’ Pod, In Utero was wildly different from Nevermind. By early 1993, the band were on their way to release what would become their final studio album, In Utero. Instead, a compilation album, Incesticide, was released.

Although Nirvana’s label wanted another album completed by the Christmas period of 1992, the band could not provide one due to the band members living in different locations and Cobain expecting the birth of his daughter Frances Bean with his wife, Courtney Love.
