Tapehead City and Epitaph Records are bringing Suffer back to cassette for the first time since its original 1988 release. Remastered from the original recordings, the reissue drops July 3rd and comes in two limited edition color variants—Yellow Flame and Smoke.
Pre-orders open June 20th, exclusively through Tapehead City. The pre-order is available here.
The reissue comes with a 7-panel j-card that digs into band history, including a group photo shot behind CBGBs and handwritten lyrics scrawled across the walls of Jay Bentley’s teenage bedroom. That detail was previously seen only in select CD and vinyl versions, but it makes its cassette debut here.
Originally released in 1988, Suffer landed like a controlled detonation—melodic, fast, and grounded in social critique. It helped define the next few decades of punk, becoming a reference point for what would follow. Now, over thirty years later, it’s getting a physical reissue that taps into that same raw urgency.
Bad Religion will also play the full Suffer album live at this year’s Riot Fest. No nostalgia trip—just a return to one of punk’s most foundational records, in its stripped-down analog form.
