Mankind 7"

DB-03

Their last full record as a functioning band. Another 10 song ep with a nod to DYS scratched into the matrix. A little different from slave but not that different. It's impossible to do a comprehensive breakdown of pressing info because the limited sleeves were made in unknown quantities and different ones keep turning up. Not to mention the different colored sleeves, multiple label variations, and the endless mish mash of swirled and marbled vinyl. For this post I will only cover the draw blank originals. I'll get into the deep six repress sometime in the future. Thanks to Kyle, Colin, Robert, LB, & Infestguy for info and photos.


Test Press 10 Copies

Here's some pics of tests. According to Infestguy the draw blank tests have off white/ beige labels, and the deep six tests have white labels. Below are my two tests which adhere to that reasoning but they are really close in color.

Press 500

For the longest time i thought the 500 press was the 2nd press. I was wrong. The band pressed 500 first, then used that money to do a repress of 1500. The first pressing has white labels with red print and comes in an over sized b&w sleeve. They should all have a 5.5" x 8.5" insert printed vertically with a thick black border around it.

Press 1,500

Second pressing has white labels with black print, and the same over sized sleeve. Only difference is the number on the back. The insert is now printed horizontally and there is no border.

LTD Clear Vinyl

How many were pressed? No one really knows. I've heard 50, 60, 90, 100. I think its closer to 60 because it barely ever pops up for sale. To make it even harder to obtain it was split between 3 band members and each of them made up their own covers for it. How many of each of those were made? Dave used to say limited to 5 copies in his auctions, but i've heard 3 copies of others... So what is out there waiting for you to drop a months worth of wages on? Well there is the elvis sleeve, the break the chain sleeve (in 3 colors), the live color photo sleeve, the live black and white photo sleeve, the la riot sleeve, the horse sleeve, original photo sleeve, black sleeve with logo (more?)... There are also clear copies that come in the normal sleeve. To push it over the edge a little more, there are clear copies with black labels and with red labels. Then to make your head explode there are some swirl copies out there that look like a purplish mix of the black and clear vinyl (i should note this is not an entire press. Its most likely a handful that came between the clear and black vinyl, and probably looks completely black unless held up to a bright light). And what's worse is i don't own ANY of them. Again being a cheapo comes back to bite me in the ass. If anyone out there is feeling generous and wants to GIVE me a copy i would happily accept. I will also trade or buy so get in touch if you are looking to set your copy free. The one at the bottom with 2 different sleeves comes from the all knowing Infestguy. Before he sent me those pics no one in the peanut gallery had seen either of those sleeves, so there could be a bunch of others out there. Collect em all, i dare you.

You couldn't leave....In Los Angeles.

Destroy LA July 2013

This show was pretty bogus. 15 band shows with no in's and out sucks. Some decent sets, some interesting cover songs, overall this was too long. Sound was pretty so so. Was half the PA off for most of the weekend?!?!?

Excellent multi cam of the entire set someone put up recently...

Standard single shot cam...

MDF 2013

Had a blast this weekend. Ass kicking sets from Sacred Reich, Midnight, Venom, Iron Lung, Vitamin X, Sleep, Macgrudergrind, Carcass and others. Infest set suffered a bit from the big room loud clicky kick drum sound but overall this was a great set. People going off, good mix of tunes... First show the days turn black 7" was available at.

                       Photo by Fred Pessaro

Check the full video here (check out some bozo almost getting his ass handed to him @ 12:28)

More cool photos of the entire fest at INVISIBLE ORANGES

Mankind Repress

DS-03

This has to be their most widely available record. The original press was 2000 copies and there must be a few thousand of this repress out there, not to mention it was later pressed on 10". The first repress had a very light grey cardstock sleeve with the deep six info added on the back. They are all on clear blue vinyl with leftover draw blank labels. Some of them have red a side labels / black b side labels, and others have black a side labels / red b side labels. So theres 2 variations for you to track down. Looks just like an original except for the bottom right back corner. All mankind 7"s were pressed using the same plates, or at least plates made off the same mother.

After that there are 6 sleeve colors. Red was the first of these and most/ all came with clear yellow vinyl. Then i think it was orange, blue, green, brown, and purple. The last 3 are really oversized and annoyingly stick out on all sides making sure the edges of the sleeve get trashed. There are karate labels, live photo labels, fetus labels, and stocks labels. Vinyl color is every swirl/ marble color under the sun. Its endless. Not sure of the breakdown but it seems like the live and karate labels are early pressings, and the fetus and stocks labels came near the middle/end. Or it could all just be random using up left over labels and sleeves. I've acquired about 16 different variations over the years, picking them up whenever i come across one for a few bucks.

This bootleg popped up from euroland in the last few years. Supposedly the red cover is limited and hand numbered. There must only be a few hundred copies because they didn't turn up anywhere. Pretty pointless.

Mankind 10"

DS-51
Here's a nice and easy one to keep track of. The last official release (so far) from the winter of 2006. This is a reissue of the 10 song 7" with 4 additional comp tracks from bleeauurgh, fear of smell, & apocalyptic convulsions. No DYS lyrics in the matrix this time. (update 4/24/12) Just picked up a second white copy and noticed a variation. My original copies have a small 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" photocopied insert with only the mankind songs on it. The same insert that came in the mankind 7" deep six did. This copy has an 8" x 8" printed cardstock insert and has lyrics to nothing's changed added.

??? Test Press

Never saw one. Most likely all with the band.

98 White Vinyl

I've seen a few for sale with black streaks in them.

Black Vinyl