Part II

Now this album is considered as their first actual demo album. They forgot about Crowz because it was mostly about who would get the position of lead singer. Now, this album is called "Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat." and it is, technically, their second album. When I first found out about this album, I had listen to it, but it was rare. Unlike Crowz, where you can't find the album anywhere since only a limited few have them, M.F.K.R., when it came out, only sold 1,000 copies. During this time, Slipknot had different band members, including ones that are still in it and ones who have left because of unknowing reasons. In this album, Anders Colsefini is part of almost all the songs in this album on vocals. Most of the reason why is because, at the time, Corey Taylor wanted to be in Slipknot because, during a Battle of the Bands where Corey was in the band "Stone Sour", he didn't want to be a part of a band he thought sucked. So, he jumped along and see if he can be in Slipknot, hence the formation of Crowz. Well, M.F.K.R. is all Anders, mostly since they started recording this album way before they even knew a man called Corey Taylor. The result was awesome, this album is really good. Some songs here are remade as well, but I kind of like them this way, except for a few songs. Well, enough of this jibberjabber, onto the review!

"Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat." 1996

1- Slipknot

It's too much of a soft opener for the album. This song gets to be redone in the next album, which sounds way better in my opinion. The speed of this song gets a tad boring considering the other songs are a tad faster. It mostly consists of guitar riffs and little percussion instruments here and there.

2- Gently

Another song that gets redone, but this song is amazing. It's slow, and it sounds good being slow. The first song, Slipknot, sounds like it should be faster, but not this song. It's slow in the beginning and it consists of acoustic guitar. It then picks up with a heavy electric guitar riff showing that the song is about to begin, and after theres a small drum solo, but not a drum solo where you think they go all out. It then picks up back to being soft, and thats when Anders Colsefini starts dominating the vocals, and that's when the song goes to back to it's quick speed. The song sounds like it should be a song to listen to when you're just mad and want to blow off some steam.

3- Do Nothing/Bitchslap

Now, I personally love this song. It has a jazz feeling to it and then, it goes to back to what Slipknot is, hard metal. I like this song just because it amuses me since it starts with a jazzy feeling, it then goes to metal, then back to jazz, and then back to metal. But the second time it goes to metal, it then goes to like, a disco beat. "Man, you're like a student or something. No class," says Anders during its disco style song before it goes back to metal. The song finishes with Anders going full out crazy, it sounds like he's vomiting, but that's only because they used an autotuner just for fun.

4- Only One

This song was redone with Anders for this album. I prefer this version, only because he has a deeper voice than Corey. But still, Corey has a faster voice for this type of song. The lyrics have to be said real quick, and Anders doesn't really quite make it through, so he took it slow for this song. I didn't really like the fact he took it slow though. Corey did a better version of this in a later album, with faster lyrics.

5- Tattered and Torn

Ah yes, my favorite song in this album. Sounds like a clown made this song, and that's precisely what happened. My next review will explain what I mean, so hold back a bit. Well, this song is amazing, I love it. It has sort of a foolish madman feeling to it. I also have to add the drum fills in this song are pretty awesome. The drummer, my role model, has mad chops and shows them off in some parts of the song.

6- Confessions

It is said that Anders wanted to make this song because he was angry with his life and had no idea what to do, so he turned to his career and tried to make out a song about how he felt about life and stuff like that. It's pretty sad if you think about it. "(You don't want to feel) The sorrow that my heart holds in knowing just where my hopes and dreams are going." That, to me, is poetry.

7- Some Feel

This song does a good job bringing you back to reality after listening to Confessions, it goes back to it's metal ways. With my imagination, I imagined when Anders sang Confessions, he had to go back to be focused and come back to reality. But when he did that, he brought back the anger he had. So, this song is basically bringing you back to the reality you were away from when listening to Confessions.

8- Killers Are Quiet

This 10 minute long song has many different meanings behind it. It is said they had to record some of the sounds on this song at a warehouse that manufactures tools. You hear gears grinding and just other different noises that were recorded at this warehouse. They used the noises and added their music to go along with it, just for the hell of it. This is also a song that gets redone, but without the gears and the knobs moving and such. It is said that this song had a problem with timing issues, so they had to leave it long so they wouldn't have to worry about missing noises and little things here and there. Throughout the song, once Anders finished singing, you can tell they tried to use the large amount of space and just add little drum fill and little noises here and there, only because of the timing issues.

9- Dogfish Rising (Hidden Track)

It is said that, on the vinyl album, if you continue playing Killers Are Quiet, you get the continuation of the song, so in reality, Killers Are Quiet is cut up in two parts, the second part being this one, making the whole song a whopping 19 minute song. Well, they only made this part for the shits and giggles, and you can see why when, after 4 minutes and 20 seconds of this song, it gets a bit weird. It goes from the gears grinding and knobs moving to Anders singing and the band playing a simple beat, and Anders saying really random confusing things. I think it's sampled from wherever they got it, but sometimes, you hear Anders saying really random things. I really have no idea what he says though, so I can't tell what he's saying.

Overall, this album gets a 6 out of 10. Mostly because it's Anders singing, and I like his deep voice. Too bad he leaves once they agreed that Corey will be the new vocalists. Well, in order to save time for the next review, these are the band members who were once in Slipknot, but left for unknown reasons: Anders Colsefini, vocalist, Josh Brainard, guitar, Donnie Steele, another guitarist, and Greg Welts, percussion. All the other members are still in Slipknot today. Except for one band member, who was a co-founder of the band, but I will explain that in another review.

Until next time, goodbye.