I'm 16 and doing my final year at school. I take my GCSEs in summer and hope to go on and do Art, Co...
I'm 16 and doing my final year at school. I take my GCSEs in summer and hope to go on and do Art, Computing, History and Philosophy at A-Level. I like Heavy Metal and Punk and hate pop music.
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I have all four Korn album's, and I think that in many ways this is their best. Probably the heaviest album, it all kicks off with the low slung, grinding riff of 'Blind'. From here on classic songs just pile up. Jonathan davis deals with issues many artists would shy from, and his lyrics are shockingly powerful without being perverse or overly controversial. 'Clown' fires up with its powerful line 'Throw your hate at me with all your might, hit me cos I'm strange hit me, you tell me I'm a pussy and your harder than me' evidently linked with Jon's childhood, a theme which runs throughout the album. He deals with the way he didn't fit in at school, and 'Faget', perhaps the heaviest and best song on the album, is all about how he was called gay at school just because he looked and dressed differently.
Perhaps the most striking thing about the album, and what makes it so good is the sheer emotion and anger that the band and, in particulary Davis puts into the songs. As he delivers his own lyrics he does so with so much power you really feel that he means what he is saying. You will not get this anger from any other band. Fred Durst and Limp Bizkit can sing about breaking stuff for as long as they want, but they will never match this sheer genius.
The album is not over-produced, and the rough edges add to the pain and sufferance that you see in the lyrics.
As the album draws to a close, the final track 'Daddy' deals with a tricky issue. Davis was abused as a child and though this was not by his parents, they refused to believe him when he told them. All the pent up agression and anger finally come to a head, and the album fades away to the tune of Jonathan sobbing.
He manages to make the listener experience the same sort of emotion and pain that he went through, something which can be very hard to do, yet Korn do it superbly.
Though the other Korn albums are superb in their own individual way, you will not find a more powerful metal album than this.
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Advantages: This is one of the cds that invented nu-metal. First listen it is "good", from then on it's jaw dropping Disadvantages: It's perhaps less accessible than korn's other albums
adom 12.06.2001 ·
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Review of Korn - Korn
Advantages: Their best album in my opinion, really heavy and flows together. Disadvantages: May be hard to get into first time, but that is probably the point of the album
Tsportmat 29.09.2009 ·
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Review of Korn - Korn
Advantages: KoRn are a great band with good lyrics and musical talent. Disadvantages: a couple of the songs sound similar but theres no harm in that as they are still good.
DeathWish 12.11.2001 (13.11.2001)
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Review of Korn - Korn
Advantages: Lots of excellent consistent hard and soft rock tracks! Disadvantages: There are none if you like weird rock music. If you don't then this is probably not you're type of music
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