Donnie Steele was the original guitarist for Slipknot recruited even before Josh Brainard. He played guitar on their independant demo Mate.Feed.Kill.Repeat. Before Slipknot Steele was also in a band with current Slipknot members Mick Thomson, Paul Gray and original Slipknot vocalist Anders Colsefini called Body Pit. Steele left the band supposedly because he "found God".