Godsmack : All Wound Up...



I'M NOT THE ONE
WHO'S SO FAR AWAY
WHEN I FEEL THE SNAKEBITE
ENTER MY VEINS...

 All Wound Up... 

is the debut

 studio album

 by American

 rock band

 Godsmack 

It was released 

independently through

 the band's own

 record label, 

E. K. Records Company, 

in February 1997. 

The album was pressed 

four different times 

before being picked up by 

Republic Records/Universal Records

 in June 1998. 

It was slightly edited

 and remixed

 (with some unlicensed samples removed), 

fully remastered

 and given a new artwork 

and layout,

 and re-released by

 the major record labels as 

Godsmack 

in August 1998. 

The band never

 considered this

 to be a 

demo release;

 they considered it

 the same release as

 Godsmack.

Different Editions

According to the album's

 liner notes, 

frontman 

Sully Erna

 performed all of the drums

 on the album

 because the band's 

original drummer, 

Tommy Stewart, 

had departed

 before the

 recording session.

 The band's 

second drummer, 

Joe D'Arco, 

only joined after 

the album 

was recorded,

 though he later 

recorded the bonus track

 "Whatever" 

with the band in

 February 1998. 

When D'Arco was fired

 in April 1998, 

his name was not removed

 from the 

1998 re-presses 

of the album, 

but Stewart was

 eventually given credit 

when the album was 

re-issued as 

Godsmack.

Four different versions

 of this album exist. 

The first and the second edition 

only differ because

 of a member misprint 

in the booklet. 

The misprint of the 

first edition mentions 

"Tony" (Rombola) 

also on drums. 

That's corrected in

 the second edition, 

where you can read

 "Joe" (D'Arco) on drums. 

The third edition's

 characteristic feature 

is an added bonus CD

 with the track

 "Whatever" 

included on it. 

The fourth edition

 differs from all the others

 in two cases:

 The hidden track at the end 

of the eleventh track, 

"Witch Hunt",

 is removed and a 

twelfth track, 

"Whatever" 

 not mentioned elsewhere

 on the release

 is added. 

"Going Down"

 later appeared on

 the soundtrack

 to the film 

Mission: Impossible 2 

as well as the band's

 second studio album 

Awake.

Track differences

 to the album 

Godsmack

Beside slight overall differences 

concerning the mix,

 there are some more significant

 differences between

 All Wound Up... and Godsmack.

  • "Moon Baby": There are more people sounds in the part from 2:39 to 4:10.
  • "Immune": The guitar sound at the end isn't fading out.
  • "Time Bomb": The intro is mixed significantly louder.
  • "Keep Away": This version is about 20 seconds longer, because the intro of "Situation" on Godsmack is put at the end of "Keep Away" here.
  • "Situation": This version is about 20 seconds shorter, because the intro featured on Godsmack is missing here. It is put at the end of "Keep Away" instead.
  • "Stress": No differences
  • "Bad Religion": This version includes a spoken intro.
  • "Get Up, Get Out": This version is about two minutes longer, because it includes the intro "Someone in London", that is a separate track on Godsmack.
  • "Now or Never": No differences
  • "Goin' Down": No differences to the version, which was released as a bonus track on the Japanese edition of Godsmack.
  • "Voodoo": The vocals at the beginning are mixed more in the foreground significantly.
  • "Witch Hunt" (hidden track on first, second and third edition): No differences
  • "Whatever": No differences



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