Enter: The Conquering Chicken
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| Studio album by The Gits | ||||
| Released | March 22, 1994 October 14, 2003 (reissue) |
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| Recorded | 1993 | |||
| Genre | Grunge | |||
| Length | 36:51 | |||
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C/Z Records Broken Rekids (reissue) |
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| Producer | Scott Benson, The Gits | |||
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Enter: The Conquering Chicken is The Gits' second full-length album, recorded in 1993 and released posthumously in 1994 on C/Z Records. Lead singer and songwriter Mia Zapata was raped and strangled to death in July, 1993 during production of this record. The remainder of the band completed the album with what they had finished so far and disbanded shortly thereafter.
Enter: The Conquering Chicken shows Mia Zapata pushing the blues influences that informed her vocal style to the forefront more directly than on Frenching the Bully, with songs like "A Change Is Gonna Come" (a recontextualized cover of soul singer Sam Cooke's original) and "Precious Blood." The band also arguably furthers their hardcore influences with songs like "Sign of the Crab", "Spear & Magic Helmet" and "Drunks" being explicit examples.
This record was later reissued in 2003 along with bonus tracks and different cover art on the Broken Rekids label.
The song "Sign of the Crab" was written by lead singer Mia Zapata running the scenario of her being murdered at the hands of a stranger, ironically just two months before she was killed. The lyric "...go ahead and slash me up/Cause you know you're the one that won't be found..." is also chillingly similar to what would later happen to Zapata, as the case would be cold for over a decade before her murderer was found.
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