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Slipknot will celebrate the (slightly belated) 25th anniversary of their 1999 self-titled debut album with an upcoming reissue packed with over 40 unreleased recordings.
Ahead of the Slipknot (25th Anniversary Edition) release on Sept. 5, the masked metal act has shared the original demo for the album track “Prosthetics” that they recorded before they first entered Malibu’s Indigo Ranch to start work on the LP; a more refined version of the track would eventually appear on the debut album.
The 25th anniversary edition collects the original Slipknot alongside two LPs of recordings from those Indigo Ranch sessions, plus another disc of demos that the band recorded prior to going into the studio. The six-LP set is capped off by a pair of live recordings: Five songs from Slipknot’s intimate 1999 show in Hartford and a collection of tracks from the group’s UK tour in late 2000.
Released in June 1999, Slipknot quickly launched the Iowa group from a newly signed metal act playing small gigs to a band capable of selling out arenas. “We loved what we did with the first record but we didn’t even know if there was gonna be anything after that,” guitarist Jim Root said in a statement. “We just wanted people to hear it. Selling out of records and shows, having successful tours– those are goals for any band. But the dream scenario in some ways, came true for us.”
Slipknot (25th Anniversary Edition), available to preorder now, will be released in few formats, including a limited edition 6LP box set with blood splattered vinyl, a 2LP version, a 2CD version, and digitally; an ultra-limited, 100-copies-only box set, featuring “blood-filled vinyl,” quickly sold out on the band’s “secret” website even before the reissue was announced.
Slipknot (25th Anniversary Edition) Track List
LP 1: Slipknot
Side 1
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(sic)
Eyeless
Wait and Bleed
Surfacing
Spit It Out
Tattered and Torn
Me Inside
Side 2
Liberate
Prosthetics
No Life
Diluted
Only One
Scissors
LP 2 & 3: Indigo Ranch Mixes:
Side 1
(sic)
Eyeless
Surfacing
Tattered and Torn
Side 2
Only One
Liberate
Suck These Nuts (Get This)
Killing Leslie
Side 3
Me Inside
Wait and Bleed
No Life
Interloper (Diluted)
Side 4
Spit It Out
Eeyore
Scissors
LP 4: Demos and Alternate Mixes:
Side 1
Wait and Bleed (Demo)
Snap (Demo)
Interloper (Demo)
Despise (Demo)
Only One (Demo)
Me Inside (Demo)
Prosthetics (Demo)
Side 2
Surfacing (Jay Baumgardner Mix)
Only One (Jay Baumgardner Mix)
No Life (Jay Baumgardner Mix)
(sic) (Ulrich Wild Mix)
Purity
Eeyore
LP 5 & 6: Live:
Side 1
Wait and Bleed (Live in Hartford 1999)
Surfacing (Live in Hartford 1999)
Purity (Live in Hartford 1999)
Spit It Out (Live in Hartford 1999)
Eeyore (Live in Hartford 1999)
Side 2
(sic) (Live in the UK 2000)
Eyeless (Live in the UK 2000)
No Life (Live in the UK 2000)
Eeyore (Live in the UK 2000)
Liberate (Live in the UK 2000)
Side 3
Purity (Live in the UK 2000)
Prosthetics (Live in the UK 2000)
Spit It Out (Live in the UK 2000)
Wait and Bleed (Live in the UK 2000)
Get This (Live in the UK 2000)
Side 4
Surfacing (Live in the UK 2000)
Me Inside (Live in the UK 2000)
Scissors (Live in Iowa 2000)
