Anders Colsefni Claims Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat. Re-Recording Was Released Without His Consent
Earlier today, we reported that the re-recording of Slipknot‘s <em>Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat.</em> by Kaosis and featuring ex-Slipknot vocalist Anders Colsefni was out today. It was a weird release, given how little fanfare it got leading up to today. As it turns out, Colsefni felt the same way.
A few hours ago, Colsefni took to his Facebook page to explain that the new version of the 1996 demo tape shouldn’t have come out today at all because it wasn’t ready and he hadn’t consented to its widespread release.
Apparently, he’d not given the go ahead for anything. Not the videos that Kaosis posted yesterday, none of the scant promotional materials, nothing. From what it sounds like, someone jumped the gun and no one knows at this time if it was done accidentally or on purpose.
All we do know is that Colsefni’s not happy about how this turned out and that he’s going to re-record the re-recorded version of Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat. in his Iowa home, rather than let a band from New Zealand record the non-vocal parts.
“Hey everyone, Anders Colsefni here. I wanted to touch base with you about the MFKR release that happened earlier today. It was released without my consent.
“I hadn’t finished going through the audio mixes on the songs when the video came out. This remake was NOT a finished product and I hadn’t even seen the videos prior to its release.
“I am very regrettably going to have to cancel this summer’s MFKR tour, but instead will be remaking this masterpiece back home. I hope you will trust me to do this properly and make you and the die-hard, old school Slipknot fans proud.
“Then, we will look to put this tour together again, beginning where it began, and spreading as far as you want it to.
“MFKR is much larger than myself, or any of us who wrote and performed it. If I have to speak for the OGs out there, I can only accept that the utmost care and respect be given to our honoring of this icon of metal history.
“I apologize for any confusion this has caused! AndersOUT”
Seriously, what the fuck? I mean, Colsefni also says that he hadn’t seen any of the videos that were posted before they were released and now they’ve all been taken down. And the singer’s canceled his planned <em>Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat.</em> tour. I’d say it’s pretty safe to assume that the dude’s done working with Kaosis.
It’ll be interesting to see if Kaosis have anything to say about the situation and Colsefni’s statement as a whole. Because either some shady shit went down or someone’s not being entirely open about the nature of this fuckin’ thing.
