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Band's Biography
Slipknot
was formed by Shawn Crahan and good friend Anders Colsefini. One winter, while
helping Shawn with some welding jobs, they got into talking and decided to form
a band. Shawn called Paul Gray at LA and asked him if he's interested to give it
a try. They soon started gathering other band members to come jam with them.
Joey Jordison from Paul's former band Anal Blast, Donnie Steele from Body Pit
and Josh Brainard from Modifidious. The band soon started to play around the
whole town and released a self-titled album entitled Mate Feed Kill Repeat which
was produced by Sean McMahon. The album was limited to 1000 copies and went out
fast. The band even garnered the local radio stations' Battle Of The Bands title
in 1996 not long after the albums release. Donnie Steele left the band and was
then replaced by Craig Jones. Craig left the Guitars part later and decided to
focus more on Keyboards and Sampling for the band. Mick Thomson, from the band
Body Pit was recruited to take the Guitars part instead.
The band is almost ready to get signed to an actual record label but before
doing so, they decided to restructure the band. Shawn was able to get Corey from
the local band, Stone Sour because Corey had visions for the band including
"total world domination". A few days after Corey was recruited, they
decided to play shows with both Corey and Anders handling vocal duties. With
Corey joining Slipknot, Anders knew that he will fall on the back-up vocals and
percussions, so he left the band later and formed a newer band called Painface.
Soon, things started to change for the better. The Lil' Bo Peep dresses were
replaced by boiler suits in different colors with barcodes and numbers for each
member. Corey had set his sights on one goal: "infect everyone that needs
to be infected".
More members started to join Slipknot after Corey's arrival: Sid Wilson as the
bands' DJ and Cuddles (Greg Welts) on Custom Percussions. Cuddles left not long
after he joined and was replaced by Chris Fehn.
1997, mega producer Ross Robinson, famous for his previous work on Korn's
self-titled and Sepultura's "Roots", was looking for some bands to
sign on his new imprint, I Am Records through Roadrunner Records. After getting
a lot of offers from other record companies (Epic, Mercury, 550), Slipknot
signed with I AM Records eventually and started recording Slipknot on Indigo
Ranch Studios in Malibu, CA October of 1998. After the album was recorded, Josh
decided to leave the band for no apparent reason. Everything was in good terms.
Josh then passed the torch to Deadfront's James Root to record
"Purity" for the album.
The album was released later June 29, 1999. The band started to spread the
sicness by booking a spot on Ozzfest 99. The band was unknown back then, but
they made their presence felt by showing up clad in masks, boiler suits and put
up a kick-ass show.
The band is widely known for the masks, numbers and bar codes they use to refer
to each other. The band denied accusations of the masks as gimmicks. For them,
it is the best way to portray their music and not by wearing branded clothing
and where they came from.
The album soon reached Gold status after a few months and Platinum 2 months
later. Slipknot gained the reputation of the only band to ever go Platinum in
such a short span with few MTV and radio support. The band is currently touring
Europe and US and are in the process of recording their next album.
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