012: Album Dive: KoRn

On this installment of the Metal Nerdery Album Dive: it’s KORN’s darkly uncompromising, brutally dissonant self-titled debut album. We discuss the production, the tracks and the overall change that KORN brought to metal in both sound and content.

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00.00: Intro/A little stranger and darker and more dissonant…er/A different sounding “metal”/Steve Vai influenced…KORN!?

05.51: Band lineup/Nobody sounds like KORN!!/Milley’s International House of Pasta (influenced by...KORN!?)

08.43: Ross Robinson, “Evil KITT” and an impressive resume of metal production credits (and his “motivational” methods)/Agent Steel/Air Supply and Goatwhore (WHAT!?)/Shout out to Kyuss!

17.15: Brief tangentionally angsty off-topic moment

18.15: The track-listing (including the hidden “track”)/kudos and commendments to KORN/a NEW genre of metal/too much tangentionalness

22.07: Blind (and the production magic that simply just “CAN’T BE LOUD ENOUGH!”)/What’s that at the end? / Jonathan Davis vocal style and content (a new kind of angst in metal)

27.35: “Ball Tongue”… that BASS!!/It’s all in the production…

30.16: “Need To”/a variety of influences makes the perfect KORN

33.50: Clown (in studio banter)/The brilliance of “Twist”/Matt’s defective CD player, Messhugah’s Industrial dance metal album and the art of “Interpretive” comedy/The flow of KORN’s songs (predictable)

38.56: Divine, The Soft Intro (reprise) and that killer middle part!!

41.37: Faget/You’ll do WHAT…with WHAT…and…I’ll WHAT!?!?/Lyrics and arrangements

45.24: Shoots and Ladders/The hilarity of Brutally Metal Nursery Rhymes

47.36: The unpredictability of Predictable

49.08: Fake/The importance of a lyric sheet and “misheard lyrics”

51.52: Lies , the “windy death growl” and the KORN groove

54.20: Helmet in the bush (great title!)

57.22: Daddy/the creepy intro and the general “uncomfortability” of the song/the “hidden track” phenomenon of the 90s/Waxing nostalgic, Metal Nerdery style