Friday, December 5th, 2025, Sub Pop will release a new physical version of The Gits’ Enter: The Conquering Chicken, the group’s second, and final studio album. The newly remastered album, which has been available digitally, is now available to preorder on CD and LP from megamart.subpop.com in North America, Mega Mart Europe, The Gits’ official website, and select independent retailers worldwide.  LP orders of the vinyl will receive the limited Loser edition on Clear with Black + Red Hi Melt (North America) and Pearl / Sunrise (UK/EU) vinyl (All vinyl colors while supplies last!)
 
This new physical reissue of the ferocious Seattle punk band’s second album is remastered by legendary producer Jack Endino and features new album cover art and packaging by Sub Pop’s VP of Creative, Jeff Kleinsmith. Also included are expanded liner notes by journalist and former Atlantic Records A&R Tim Sommer who heralds, ‘The Gits were an angry, inflamed slinky fully in tune with and tuned by the Bessie Patti Smith of her time, truly the only singer who could summon Joplin, Poly Styrene, Sam Cooke, Iggy Pop, and Ian MacKaye all in the same goddamn song.’
 
Watch the official video for “Sign of the Crab” directed by Chris Kraft.
 
“‘Sign of the Crab’ was the last song we created together as a band” says Gits’ bassist Matt Dresdner. “Based on Andy’s diabolical composition and Mia’s brilliant creepy lyrics, the music was punchy, complex, and full of a fun, twisted rage. The songs on …Chicken provide just a glimpse of what we were onto.”
 
Enter: The Conquering Chicken is The Gits’ final, full-length studio album. The Gits’ vocalist, lyricist, and frontwoman, Mia Zapata, was murdered in Seattle during the few weeks they spent recording the album that summer of 1993. Produced by the band and longtime friend Scott Benson, Enter: The Conquering Chicken was released posthumously on C/Z Records in 1994.
 
Guitarist Andy Kessler shares, “The Gits are pleased to finally present listeners with the definitive edition of this recording to celebrate a taste of where Mia and their band might have gone.”
 
Formed in 1986 at Antioch College in Ohio, The Gits moved together to Seattle in 1989 as the world was taking notice of the local scene. Although their raucous, blues-infused punk, powered by Mia’s indelible vocals, didn’t quite fit the mold being cast by their Pacific Northwest peers, the band immediately found a tight foothold and strong following.
 
Enter: The Conquering Chicken showcases The Gits at the peak of their powers. Captured at the end of a packed west coast tour, they were on fire. Creative, inspired, and driven by the promise of a new musical chapter, you can it hear in these recordings. 
 
Remixed by Jack Endino in 2003, ‘Songs like Bob (Cousin O.),’ ‘Guilt Within Your Head,’ ‘Seaweed,’ ‘Sign of the Crab,’ ‘The Drinking Song,’ and Mia’s jaw-dropping rendition of Sam Cooke’s ‘A Change is Gonna Come’ reveal a distinct evolution in direction following their successful 1992 debut album, Frenching The Bully.
 
Late last week, The Gits announced the rerelease of the 2005 independent documentary The Gits’ 20th Anniversary Edition directed by Kerri O’Kane. The film is distributed by Factory 25 and will stream online through Veeps starting on December 16th, with theatrical screenings to come in November, December, and January. The Gits’ 20th Anniversary Edition features footage of Mia and the band, along with Kathleen Hanna, Selene Vigil and Valerie Agnew of 7 Year Bitch, Joan Jett, and more (see Brooklyn Vegan news story September 25th).
 
The Gits’ Frenching the Bully is also available now from Sub Pop Mega Mart in North America, MegaMart2 in the EU/UK, The Gits website, and independent retailers worldwide. Enter: The Conquering Chicken and Frenching the Bully, along with the rest of the Gits’ entire discography, Kings & Queens, Seafish Louisville, and Live at The X-Ray – are also available digitally on all DSPs from Sub Pop.
 
Revisit Evelyn McDonnell’s interview with The Gits’ band members Andy Kessler and Matt Dresdner in The New York Times (see November 12th story “A New Set of Gits Releases Gives Mia Zapata Her Voice Back”). You can also read Tim Sommer’s extensive liner notes on The Gits reissues here.

The limited Loser US LP & CD editions of Enter: The Conquering Chicken

The Gits
Enter: The Conquering Chicken
 
1. Bob (Cousin O.)
2. Guilt Within Your Head
3. Seaweed
4. A Change is Gonna Come
5. Precious Blood
6. Beauty of the Rose
7. Drunks
8. Italian Song
9. Social Love I
10. Social Love II
11. Daily Bread
12. Drinking Song
13. Sign of the Crab