Taking the name of this from the second album from Eric B. & Rakim, the Nu-Metal band KoRn came with their third album in 1998. With it using this title, you can tell that the Hip Hop side of their material is to become a lot more prominent in this record.
1-12 *silence*
13. “It’s On”
After twelve track, all contacting five seconds worth of silence, you come to a track which has them getting straight into some deep Metal work, it has them go for something pretty typical in terms of Metal, and they only show some originality through the use of some strange sounds, but aside from this, it wasn’t saying a lot in particular.
**Two Stars**
14. “Freak On A Leash”
Moving on from what I would consider to be a pretty weak tune, you have them distance themselves from this by going for one which has David Silveria go for some pretty funky drumming to lead the rest of the group in for some hardcore stuff. It seems to be going this way at so many point as they are continually building tension, but so many anti-climaxes occur as they never take it that step further, and it mean that it is a useless tune. The breakdown is nice, but not too special.
**Three Stars**
15. “Got The Life”
This track has them do what I would consider to be some very average work which really has very little originality going for it at all. It begins with a fair
stretch of instrumental before Jonathan Davis, on lead vocals, comes forward to go for the type of Rapcore stuff which was popular at the time, and it certainly fits in with the feel of the backing but doesn’t really stand out at all for what it does.
**Three Stars**
16. “Dead Bodies Everywhere”
The booming bass and haunting melody at the start of this track force you to be taken over as it builds up the tension. This soon breaks down into what it clearly one of the best tracks which this album has to offer. It has them play with conventions by implementing Hip Hop-esque synth from the early nineties to drive it as they perform a dark tune.
**Four Stars**
17. “Children Of The KoRn”
This track stands out for the fact that it brings in more Hip Hop than almost any other part of the album with it gurney style of producing the thing, it uses the general sound, and manipulates them into their twisted ways. From this, you find that the Gangsta Rap legend ice Cube joins with the Rap on top of it and put in all he can to drive them along the way.
**Four Stars**
18. “B.B.K.”
After having a couple of consecutive big ones, they seem to keep this trend going with this one. It was the final single from the album, and finds them coming with a track which has them putting their all in to excite the listener as they perform more of their haunting material and show how they are able to bring in as many differing influences as possible to come up with such an original end product.
**Four Stars**
19. “Pretty”
The percussion in this track’s opening is heavy, and it gives you all you need to get into as it begins. However I felt as though it went on, the standards seemed to slip as they resort to some more of the gruesomely disturbing work which the album started with. The lyrics in this really put me off it, and I felt that the backing of it did little to help me back into the flow.
**Two Stars**
20. “All In The Family”
Limp Bizkit’s Fred joins them on this one, and with two of the biggest acts in Nu-Metal collaborating, you would expect big things. You find that together they choose to go for the Hip Hop-inspired work with lots of hard breaks being juxtaposed with the twisted KoRn sounds. It is like a rap battle between Durst and Davis for this reason, but it is completely ineffective in its stop and start structure.
**Two Stars**
21. “Reclaim My Place”
As they go back towards their Metal side, it appears that they find what they are about again, and the results of it are quite clearly improved in that it has them doing some more traditional work that most are able to relate to and understands without and sort of difficulty or clarity. They are sure to show how unique they are with a type of Hip Hop percussion break, which was done well, and so it turns out to be a decent one.
**Three Stars**
22. “Justin”
This was one of my favourites from the album, and I am surprised that it didn’t make it to become a single, s it has them putting it absolutely every last little bit of energy into this hardcore tune. It has them go right into the deep Metal side of their work and pretty much neglect the Hip Hop, but I thought that it showed exactly how well they were capable of doing the stuff which their genre is known for, since they had proven they could make it fit with their personal tastes.
**Four Stars**
23. “Seed”
Thy return to the average work on this one, so the album is shown to be clearly very inconsistent in what it delivers, and at each phase you are greeted with something which contrasts so greatly from what you would have gotten just prior to it. After a lengthy introduction, they get down to it and try more experimental stuff with subtle Funk sounds coming through, but it seems to stay pretty ordinary throughout.
**Three Stars**
24. “Cameltosis”
Thy seem to try out completely new things for this one with an Middle Eastern feel coming through in this tune, and it forces you to see them in a new way as they are willing to try anything to get their stuff to sound unlike anything else out there. They utilise more of the Hip Hop world by using Slimkid3 of The Pharcyde to MC on top of the funky breaks of this joint, but it didn’t make it as strong as it could have potentially been.
**Three Stars**
25. “My Gift To You”
To end the album comes a track which sounds just like it is coming to the climax of the thing as the are clearly at the end of what they have o offer with this one and bring out all that they hadn’t in the other points in it. It sounds like they reverted to the obvious choices in doing the pretty straight-forward Metal, but many will probably enjoy this side of them (I just thought that to end it, they could have tried to do something mre creative).
**Two Stars**
The content of this album shifts in quality from one track to another and so you are rarely able to really connect with it for any sustained period of time. On the whole, as a result, I wasn’t really feeling this album as you were never really given a chance to get into any one track, as the one before it would have been so different to it, but so many others felt in opposition to this. This isn’t the type of Nu-Metal I enjoy, and it helped me understand which direction suits my tastes.
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Advantages: Kick Ass! My favourite tracks are Got the life, Freak on a leash, Pretty, and the bonus track(don't know what it's called) Disadvantages: 12 blank tracks are really annoying.
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