Eight Step Rail is the Debut EP

Extended play

An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

 released by Australian band The Superjesus

The Superjesus

The Superjesus were an ARIA award–winning rock band from Adelaide, Australia. They are best known for their singles "Shut My Eyes", "Down Again" and "Gravity".-History:...

 in May 1996. The track I'm Stained was later re-recorded for their debut album, Sumo

Sumo (album)

Sumo is the debut album released by Australian band The Superjesus in February 1998.-Track listing:# Down Again# Saturation# Sandfly# Now And Then# Ashes# I'm Stained# Honeyrider# Sink# Dead Ended# Milk...

. A re-recorded version of Shut My Eyes was also later included as a hidden track

Hidden track

In the field of recorded music, a hidden track is a piece of music that has been placed on a CD, audio cassette, vinyl record or other recorded medium in such a way as to avoid detection by the casual listener...

 on Sumo.

The big guitar sounds are yet another use of the infamous Sansamp from Tech 21

Tech 21

Tech 21 is a New York based manufacturer of guitar and bass effect pedals, amps, and DI boxes which allow the user to emulate the tone of many popular guitar amps and record those sounds directly into a mixer....

. After the engineer (Mick Wordley of Mixmasters Studios in Adelaide, Australia) spent a day trying to get a big sound out of Marshall stacks, he couldn't go past the sound the band had achieved by direct injecting a Sansamp into their Fostex recorder.