Korn
by Korn

From btener11 10/18/2011 18:56 | #28636 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

As much as I dislike Korn's musical and commercial career arc, and as much as I despise the godawful mess of mediocrity they spawned, Korn's debut IS one of the most influential and wildly creative metal albums ever. One of the few times I can say a "radio song" stopped me dead in my tracks was my first time hearing "Blind." I actually remember exactly where I was at the time. Sounded like it came from another planet and tapped into a place in me I had never accessed before. (Edited)

Forget everything you think you know about Korn. OK, all set? Great. This album dropped an atomic bomb on all the heavy-metal cliches of the previous 10 years, by bringing something dark, nasty, original, and perhaps most importantly, real to the table. This is the sound of psychopathic/schitzophrenic meth-addict exercising the demons of a pretty tramatic childhood with blunt and ugly brutality. Long story short, it rocked like nothing had (or maybe ever will) rock again. It's ugly, it's mean, it's vulgar. Are you ready? (Edited)

This is definitely one of the best albums of the 90s, right up their with Nevermind, Ten and Rage Against the Machine's Debut. This album just has this raw aggression which all of korn's other album's lack and also mangages to mix many different genres together like grunge, groove metal, hip hop, industrial metal and funk metal without sounding like a mess while giving a chilling insight into the mind of a paranoid drug addict (Davies had a severe cocaine & speed addiction during the recording of this album). In retrospect this album had as much of an impact on music as Nirvana's Nevermind did. It's sad Korn have spent the rest of their career trying to remake this album over and over again, Korn's new albums are so awful i honestly just can't listen to them. And no i am not a Korn/Nu-metal fan. (Edited)

Totally agree with the other comments regarding the freshness that this album brought to the metal and broader musical scene at the time. I was obsessed with this album when it first came out - so too were my mates in the band I was in at that time. Sound production wise it stacks up as well - such a unique kick / snare sound and guitar tones / effects / sound. Just listening to it again today for the first time in a long, long while and it might be weird to say but it almost sounds contemporary i.e. In line with the fusion of genres we are seeing done brilliantly by today's true musical geniuses.

Not allowed to formally rate yet as being fairly new to BEA - 90/100 - for originality, brilliant fusion of styles, well written songs and great sound production - any musician or music lover could find something on this album - warning very heavy at times - 7 string electric / 5 string bass guitars at full throttle!

This album is the only Korn album I can still appreciate as a whole. Solid and consistent, managed to create a brand new genre (I'll skip the fact that 90% of numetal is trash). (Edited)