Altered Images to reissue Bite on its 40th anniversary

Altered Images Bite 2023 sees Altered Images’ Bite celebrating its 40th anniversary, and to marks its birthday, it will be reissued in two limited edition formats, a half-speed mastered 180-gram black vinyl with a signed print and a double CD in a unique gatefold 7” packaging.

It’s available 27 October via Edsel and Demon Records and is available to pre-order here.

Originally released in the summer of 1983, Bite was a giant leap forward for the band. Produced by Tony Visconti (David Bowie, T. Rex) and Mike Chapman (Blondie), it featured lush arrangements, dancefloor-friendly singles, and the iconic Audrey Hepburn-inspired photograph of singer Clare Grogan on the cover taken by Neil Kirk, best known for his work on the Roxy Music albums Manifesto, Flesh And Blood and Avalon.

The 40th-anniversary edition of Bite will be available as a 2CD set in 7″ deluxe gatefold packaging, with an 8-page booklet.

CD1 features the original album, while bonus CD2 contains three non-album B-sides, two extended 12” versions including the 8-minute 30 second version of Don’t Talk To Me About Love, a live track and three single edits.

The half-speed mastered 1LP on 180-gram black vinyl has an outer sleeve with obi strip, a poly-lined inner sleeve, and a 4-page insert.

This half-speed mastered edition of the vinyl has been mastered by Barry Grint, who has worked on records by Prince, Madonna, Robbie Williams and Noel Gallagher, to name a few, at AIR Mastering from the original stereo tapes using precision half-speed mastering.

Half-speed mastering is a vinyl cutting technique that improves groove accuracy and transient information creating an incredibly detailed stereo image with a natural high frequency response.