[9] A film recorded for the album was also shown in public for the first time, which was played along with the band as they performed their tracks to it in synch.

The shows marked the first time that the album has been played from start to finish by the band since its recording.

[10] Details and the cover art of the re-recorded album, entitled ReIdolized: The Soundtrack to the Crimson Idol, were released on November 17, 2017.

The tour, dubbed Re-Idolized: The 25th Anniversary of the Crimson Idol, took place from September through November 2017 in Europe.

After Michael is killed in a car accident by a drunk driver, Jonathan runs away from home and starts to wander the streets, becoming addicted to drugs and alcohol.

Jonathan plays the stolen crimson-colored guitar as often as he can in order to obtain money to record an album.

One night before a concert, Jonathan calls his parents in an attempt to reconcile their differences and heal the emotional wounds between them.

The German magazine Rock Hard declared The Crimson Idol Album of the Month in June 1992 and the reviewer wrote that it maintained the same "power, roughness, melodic fullness and epic breadth" of its predecessors, with songs "not always at the world-class level, but damn close.