All Wound Up… by Godsmack

All Wound Up..., Godsmack's debut, came out in February 1997 on E. K. Records Company, the band's own label, and it was about as homegrown as a heavy record gets. Sully Erna, who sang and played guitar in the Lawrence, Massachusetts band, produced it with Andrew Murdock, and Tony Rombola was on guitar.

The grinding alternative metal on it, Keep Away and Bad Religion among the songs, travelled far enough that the disc was pressed four separate times before Republic/Universal picked it up in June 1998. The label had it lightly edited and remixed, pulled some unlicensed samples, remastered it, dressed it in new artwork and put it back out as Godsmack that August. Just don't call the original a demo: the band always treated the two as one and the same record.

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