Both the cover art and the Gold Disc itself remain unreleased to this day. According to the ex-Stone Sour member Denny Harvey, Corey also drew cover art for the album and gifted it to Denny. and re-recorded them, and that he wrote new lyrics to those songs, saying 'that was the unreleased Crowz album, basically, or whatever they were calling it'. Corey Taylor mentioned 'Crowz' in an interview years later, explaining how Slipknot took some of the songs on Mate. It is believed by some that Slipknot's sophomore album was supposed to be called 'Crowz', but no evidence for this exists. Slipknot moved on to re-record the Gold Disc with Corey Taylor's vocals, of which four tracks leaked. For that reason, Corey Taylor was brought in and replaced Anders Colsefni, who subsequently left the band in September 1997. However, this did not come to fruition, as the band decided they were in need of a more accessible voice on lead vocals. SlipKnot was mixed in March 1997 at SR Audio and was scheduled for release as the band's sophomore album in August 1997. These recording sessions ultimately resulted in the creation of SlipKnot, more commonly known as the Gold Disc. They compiled these songs on a number of demos, namely Excerpts From Current Project, the Battle of the Bands Demo, the Producer/Engineer Demo and the 1997 Demo. in October 1996, Slipknot continued writing and recording new songs, as well as re-recording existing ones.

Among Slipknot fans, 'Crowz' is somewhat infamous and has been used in reference to a variety of topics.Īfter the release of Mate. The band later wrote it on various demos and papers and even included it in ' Dogfish Rising' on Mate. Crowz is a word coined by Joey Jordison as an inside joke in October 1995.

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