Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat.
Publications
- October 31, 1996 ( independent distribution )
- July 13, 1997 ( via. - ismist Recordings)
Occupation
- Vocals, percussion Anders Colsefini
- Guitar: Donnie Steele
- Guitar: Josh Brainard
- E -Bass: Paul Gray
- Drums: Joey Jordison
- Percussion: Shawn Crahan
Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat. is a demonstration of the American heavy metal band Slipknot. It is considered the first release of the band.
Formation
After the founding of Slipknot in 1995, did you look with producer Sean McMahon together and took the demo to within seven months. The album was recorded at SR Audio, in her home in Des Moines Iowa. There, Slipknot took later on also their self-titled debut album. The band had to finance the album themselves. Overall, it came at the cost of $ 40,000. When the album was abgemixt, founding member Donnie Steele left the band. Reasons were that he no longer considered it appropriate because of his religion to be a member of Slipknot. He was replaced by Mick Thomson. By publishing mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat., Slipknot aroused the interest of major record labels. The demo was sold in an edition of 1,000 copies and is therefore considered collectible.
Style
On the demo experimented Slipknot more than they did on their later albums. For example, the song Confessions oriented at Jazz In other songs, the guitars have been also influenced by the radio. Nevertheless, it can be seen on some of the songs which way the band has chosen later. Examples include Slipknot or Only One.
Track list
Trivia
- The cover shows drummer Joey Jordison, sitting naked in a cage.
- Mick Thomson is given in the booklet of the demo as a guitarist, although he was not involved in the recording.
- Also the later responsible for the sampling Craig Jones is listed in the booklet as a member. He was also not involved in the recording. Jones rose shortly after Steele's exit at a Slipknot.
- The bar code of the demo is 742,617,000,027th According to him, the intro of the debut album of the band was named.
- None of the band members has a copy of Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat.
- The title of the demo as well as large parts of the lyrics are based on the pen-and- paper role-playing game Werewolf: The Apocalypse of the U.S. role-playing game publisher White Wolf, which had a great influence on the founding members of the band.