These nine Midwestern boys (all from Des Moines, IA) reportedly perform wearing orange industrial coveralls with UPC symbols on the front; each bandmember is identified by a number, which is painted on the sleeve of his coveralls. Each also wears a really nasty-looking mask. Judging from their appearance and from the sound of their debut album, it's easy to assume that they're upset about something. What it is exactly is kind of hard to tell, since the stuttering roar of {$Number 8}'s vocals is barely discernible through the jackhammer {\death metal} drums, massed guitars, horror-show samples, and jittery turntable scratches that pummel the listener through almost every song. You thought {$Limp Bizkit} was hard? They're {$the Osmonds}. These guys are something else entirely. And it's pretty impressive. Although those lyrics that are discernible are not generally quotable on a family website, suffice it to say that the members of {$Slipknot} are not impressed with their fathers, their hometown, or most anything else. {&"Surfacing"} starts out by cursing pretty much everything generally, and then it starts getting aggressive, as shrieking guitar feedback alternates with DJ scratching. {&"Spit It Out"} is speed {\rap-metal} with an actual melody in the chorus; {&"Scissors"} ends the program with a sound that quite simply couldn't get any more aggro without falling apart entirely, and by the end the singer actually sounds like he's about to burst into tears. An auspicious debut. [The Japanese release replaces {&"Frail Limb Nursery"} and {&"Purity"} with {&"Me Inside,"} something that the American release would also do a few months after the initial release. There are also five more songs here than on the original album: {&"Get This,"} a remix of {&"Spit It Out,"} {$Terry Date}'s remix of {&"Wait and Bleed,"} {&"Interloper,"} {&"Despise,"} and a live version of {&"Surfacing."}] ~ Rick Anderson, All Music Guide