Bites
Album by Skinny Puppy
Released	1985
Recorded	1984-1985
Genre	Industrial
Length	72:53
Label	Nettwerk
Producer(s)	cEvin Key, Dave Ogilvie
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Skinny Puppy chronology
Remission (1984)	Bites (1985)	Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse (1986)

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Track listing

1. "Assimilate" – 6:56
2. "Dead Lines" – 6:13
3. "Blood on the Wall" – 2:58
4. "Church" – 3:16
5. "Icebreaker" – 3:14
6. "Tomorrow" – 4:53
7. "Dead Doll" – 2:28
8. "Film" – 2:18
9. "Love" – 1:51
10. "The Choke" – 6:29
11. "Social Deception" – 2:57
12. "Christianity" – 1:32
13. "Basement" – 3:25
14. "Last Call" – 5:54
15. "Falling" – 4:20
16. "The Centre Bullet" – 9:42
17. "One Day" – 4:20

All songs by Ogre/Key. Tracks 4, 6, 7, 9, 12, 15-17 did not appear on the original LP release. A gramophone record, (also phonograph record - often simply record) is an analog sound recording medium: a flat disc rotating at a constant angular velocity, with inscribed spiral grooves in which a stylus or needle rides. ...

Personnel

• cEvin Key (production, engineering, synths, sequencers, tapes, digital sampling, treatments, acoustic and metallic percussions, drums, rhythm programming, bass guitar)
• Nivek Ogre (voices, lyrics, synth, metallic percussions, treatments and objects)
• Dave Ogilvie (as David Ogilvie) (production, engineering)
• Wilhelm Schroeder (bass synth on "Icebreaker" and "The Choke")
• Tom Ellard (production, mixing, tapes, treatments, and digital sampling on "Assimilate")
• D. Pleven (bass guitar destruction on "Blood on the Wall")
• Terry McBride (executive production)

cEvin Key (cEvin is pronounced like Kevin), is the adopted name of Kevin Crompton (b. ... Nivek Ogre Nivek Ogre (real name Kevin Graham Ogilvie) born December 5, 1962 is the vocalist best known for his work in the seminal, and notably experimental, industrial band Skinny Puppy. ... Dave Ogilvie is a Canadian record producer and musician. ... Wilhelm Schröder is a musician, born Wilhelm Anton Leeb (also known as Bill Leeb) on September 21, 1966 in Vienna (Austria). ... Thomas Ellard, known as Tom Ellard (born 1962) is an electronic musician and core of the group Severed Heads and creator and director of sevcom. ...

Notes

Cover art by Steven Gilmore.

Originally released on vinyl and cassette only by Nettwerk. The cassette was significantly longer and included many extra tracks. The first CD release of Bites was in 1987 on the compilation Bites and Remission. Unfortunately, this release did not include all of the tracks included on the earlier cassette release, and replaced "Assimilate" and "The Choke" with remixed versions. A similar CD called Remission and Bites was released by Play It Again Sam in Europe. In 1993, Nettwerk finally released Bites as a separate CD. The CD contained all the tracks from every release of Bites, except "Cage", along with a previously unreleased track called "One Day". The tracklisting for this CD is shown above. Play It Again Sam (also known by its acronym, PIAS) is an international record label. ...

"The Center Bullet" appears with vocals by the Key/Goettel side-project Tear Garden on their "The Tear Garden EP" and "Tired Eyes Slowly Burning" albums. The Tear Garden is a psychedelic pop group, formed by Edward Ka-Spel of Legendary Pink Dots and cEvin Key of Skinny Puppy in 1985 after Key served Ka-Spel on tour in Canada as a sound engineer. ...