Reviews (page 7 of 8)
instrumentally this album is ehh. vocally... there's a lot to talk about. it all just feels so angry and full of hatred, there's tons of misogyny and homophobia throughout. it feels like ragebait in musical form. i guess it probably also appeals to its intended audience of middle school bullies. the vocal style is very whiny and obnoxious and there's the occasional weird scat singing that just makes me pause for a second and actually laugh at the absurdity of it. was quite ready to be over with this by the end.
Couldn't finish it. The two singles are decent enough - not my taste but they had a uniqueness to them at the time which means I don't hate them - and the first song was OK, but the rest? I got as far as the terrible one with Fred Durst and bailed. I'm a completionist but not THAT much of a completionist.
Really dont like Korn. I am sure my 20 year old self would have loved it though. I think i might have just lost my angry
Oof, an hour and 7 minutes of exactly what expected. Loud, noisy, raw, childish, whiny. Undoubtedly popular and unfortunately influential, but absolutely not my thing. Usually I avoid reading other reviews until I am finished with or very near the end of an album, but here I felt like I had heard everything I needed to four tracks in. Having now finished the album, I can confirm this was true. A real endurance test. I see that 8 of the top 10 reviews are one-star reviews. Deserved. Justified. My favourite other review of this points out that Korn's appeal, probably, is in their apparent trangressions and adolescent taboo-breaking, which a teenager would probably love. I think I filled this gap in my life with the Butthole Surfers, who I still think are great. I think I always thought that Korn sucked, and I think I always will.
This is some seriously godawful shit. I know there’s people who had a tough time growing up, dealing with school, getting picked on. I know, I was one of them. But this is just whiny angsty white kid bullshit. Goth kids are tougher than this guy, who sounds like a kid pissed off cuz he didn’t get a Nintendo for his birthday. Crap like this gave us Woodstock ‘99 and beyond.
Why can't you just make nice music that sounds good and an album that is an appropriate length? For goodness sakes. I can't relate to this on any level, what emotions am I supposed to get from this screaming? Fuck knows. Fred Durst came on to shout some slurs, that was a nice intermission. Any gays that listen to this.... electric chair.
torn between giving this a 1 or a 2, but i went through this whole album pleading with it to end so i think it's gotta be a 1. i know i'm clouded by not being particularly fond of metal but i hated the scratchy vocals, thought this was very generic, all the works really.
Two good songs (the two big ones), like eight songs that are meh to bad by Korn's standards (I am no great Korn fan to be fair), and then three or so of the worst novelty songs you have ever heard in your life . Should've been their first album on here, I think this is my least favorite of their first four and again I am no big Korn fan.
I fell behind on the list because it took me so long to get through this one.
Solid album.
The Venn diagram of dudes who were into Hard Now(!) bands and MAGA really should be investigated.
Awful album. Terrible band. Worst music genre.
I’m not ruining my weekend by listening to this album.
Saved? ❌ Would listen again? ❌ Would recommend to anyone? ❌ Would buy on Vinyl? ❌
Fucking agonizing
I did not listen. I know i will not like this. Sorry Korn!
I assume Korn actually set out to be annoying, because there's no other explanation for the array of silly voices on this album. So congrats, lads - mission accomplished.
It’s better than some of the ithe metal albums. I liked Children of the Korm but mainly because of Ice Cube. Interesting to hear the Pharcyde on a track too. 1.5
TOO DARK
I'd rather listen to this than Radiohead, but not by much.
Skipped through this as beyond dumb. Not for me.
?????? So bad. Like, visceral reaction bad.
So... uh... I guess I was wrong to give yesterday's cryptic Icelandic post rock a 1 when there are things like this in the world...
A new low bar has been set.
yikes
think this might be my first dnf i just cldnt do this mess today not for me
Yeuch!
So I have no real expectations for this one. I've found the Metal genre to be a bit of a mixed bag for me. I like some of the sounds, it can be really cool, but I tend not to vibe with the sexist lyrics often found in older bands (not exclusively a metal issue to be fair). I also get bored of party songs pretty quick, I'm boring I know. Anyway, let's see what this is about. 1. It's On! - Eh. I like the instrumentation, but not clicking with anything else. 2. Freak on a Leash - This one is okay. I don't mind it but I don't think I'd come back to it. LMFAO, okay the "breakdown" part ruined it for me. I just died laughing 3. Got the Life - Okay, I like the guitars and drums. Otherwise meh. I'm realizing I really don't vibe with his voice, especially when he scats. 4. Dead Bodies Everywhere - eh 5. Children of the Korn - Bruh the vocals have me dying. yeah this isn't for me at all lol 6. B.B.K. - This one is okay I guess, again I do not fuck with the scatting tho lmao 7. Pretty - Okay, I'm not even gonna finish the song cause I know what it's going for, but I'm genuinely confused by those who would just casually listen to it. I understand the writer probably had to like get this frustration out, but like causal listeners have me a bit concerned. I feel ill lol 8. All in the Family - no thank you. im not even gonna finish the song im gonna be real I kinda just read the lyric from here lmao, to see if there was anything worth actually listening to. Didn't really see anything. "Cameltosis" is the epitome of what I was talking about when It comes to sexist shit tho. Gonna go listen to Gracie Abrams now to clense my palate :D (Honestly, sometimes I name pop girlies to just piss men off. I just know someone read that and thought "What the fuck this dumb cunt ass bitch thinks that talentless hack is better than this?" I think it's funny)
After listening to this I somehow now have an STD, a ungodly huge pickup truck with fender flares and oversized tires and Punisher stickers on the back window, an ex girlfriend and a little boy who I see every other weekend and I’m behind on my child support payments. I also have a drinking problem and my social media feed is filled with bimbos. This singer wishes they had Mike Patton’s talent but they don’t. Nu Metal is hot garbage music for adolescent, angry children.
No me gusta mucho el heavy metal
DNF
What a cruel list to give something like this the day after Pet Sounds by the Beach Boys. Talk about a contrast. Going to give it a fair listen though, as I do everything. But don’t anticipate being a big fan. Early on, and it’s just loud and somehow whiny industrial sounding metal. They call this nu metal, and it’s one of those genres that I can pick out when I hear it, even if I don’t really understand it. Very late 90s angry vibes. I remember Freak on a Leash and it’s certainly a better sounding version of this sound. Catchier. There are a few better songs that have less of an ugliness to them. Got The Life is better than a lot of the rest of this. As a whole though, this album is noisy and unremarkable and unlikeable. You get past those few first songs and there’s such a sameness to it all. And it’s 70 minutes long for some insane reason. Isn’t for me. 1/5. Probably as far away from anything I would choose to put on. Finishing listening was a chore.
Why is there so much NuMetal on this list? NuMetal objectively sucks. And these guys are mainly to blame for it becoming a thing. NuMetal is the anti-Reese's, two great tastes that DO NOT go great together (steps off NuMetal soapbox). Freak On a Leash was the song that did it. I can see why Fred Durst thought he could do this. What is with the weird mouth guitar bridge? Got the Life is like a shitty Nine Inch Nails cover. Wait a minute! Is Trent Reznor to blame for NuMetal? This might be the exact moment Ice Cube jumped the shark. They are better than Linkin Park and Limp Bizkit, all the names with the stupid K replacing other letters. Oh my god, Fred Durst is on this album. The song is like joke song between Jonathan Davis and Fred Durst and it sucks. There are no two less hard dudes in history than these two assholes on this song. I can confirm, NuMetal sucks. Closing with a bunch of longer songs when I'm already tired of this nonsense is not helping. Well, now I like the Pharcyde less. These dudes are horny in the least palatable way possible. Jonathan Davis has the same hairline and hairstyle as The Predator. Thanks for the stupid conversation, glad that could be memorialized. God, the lyrics to Earache My Eye are laughably bad.
Guessed this right in the 90’s and 00’s. Korn sucks.
Really weird and alternative sound, not a fan of metal in the first place and this one was far too experimental for me.
A couple songs in, I thought that this albums greatest offense would be thst it's actually kind of boring. Then, Fred Durst drops in to help drop some casual homophobia, and I almost wished it went back to just boring.
The soundtrack to every school shooting
The only song I could relate to was "Reclaim My Place" where the singer is screaming "What the fuck?" over and over. WTF indeed. I could feel brain cells dying as I listened to this noise.
Really? One of the worst nu metal album ever made recommended as one of the 1001 albums to absolutely listen in your life? No thanks. I remember, when the singles taken from this album were popular, me and my friends wondering how Korn could fall so low. Not that nu metal is a great genre per se, but this is embarassing: by comparison Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park's records are Beethoven's sonatas. Avoid, don't listen to, and forget it.
DEAD BODIES EVERYWHEEEEERRRRREEEEEE
Wasn’t expecting to get much from this. And didn’t. Didn’t need to hear this, nu-metal? Very predictable. Best I can think of. Rage, angst, tortured etc etc they maybe feel it's 100% real, maybe. But if you don't like it, it's campy slasher movie posturing, with not so pleasant ideology, cameltosis and the family ones were particularly ugly little turds, generations angry young (turns out not so young) men with guitars to upset your parents at 14yrs. 14 million copies sold?? Really not sure what to make of that. Humanity can be fairly much in the toilet? Still didn't need to hear, particularly some of those ugly little moments, but have now, may have been 2 stars for the music but a particularly dirty time had, and even worst just googled and these "people" were late 20s when they made this not teens, what can you say, 1 Star
I'm not a fan of the production--the tight drum and this bass sound don't really do it for me. Plus the homophobia, even though it's explained away by the band, is not really good enough. When you put something in the world there needs to be awareness. There are some good touches here and there, so it's a shame.
How did this make the list but Tool and Deftones did not?
Tröttsamt.
Jag är den första som hävdar att man måste se mer än bara musiken i sig, och sätta sig in i sammanhanget ett album släpptes i. Men när det gäller den här skiten går det bara inte. Det är dåligt. Det finns ingenting att ta med sig här. Bränn alla kopior, sprid askan i mount doom. Tack men nej tack.
I don’t want to be dismissive of entire genres of music, because there’s usually someone doing something worthwhile in any given style, but nu metal might be the exception here. I get that Korn is influential and that’s it’s possible to make an argument for their inclusion on this list, but that doesn’t change that this album is utter garbage. And if this is a high water mark of the genre… I like heavy music and this just sucks. The drop tuned riffs are boring, amateur level playing at best, the drumming brings nothing to it, the vocals are crap. That’s not even getting into the juvenile grievance, the misogyny, the homophobia running through the entire thing. If I can say anything positive about this album is that it’s making me reevaluate my criteria for one-star ratings because this is by far the worst album I’ve come across on here so far.
I understand they may be influential in their sphere, but Korn was in my sister’s rotation during a dark time for both of us and I didn’t enjoy revisiting that time.
Ahh, Korn. I never thought I’d ever think about Korn again. In a way, I’m embarrassed to be thinking about Korn, and embarrassed to be writing this about Korn. Because I’m a completist, even though I hesitated a few days, I did listen to this, and I was embarrassed throughout the whole thing, even though I had earbuds in. I was embarrassed that somewhere at Spotify, someone could potentially sift through the data to find that not only did I once search for Korn, but I clicked the play button. I’m embarrassed for Korn having once been Korn. I wonder if they think back on the Korn days and feel, well, embarrassed. I can’t say I didn’t know some of these songs already, shitty as it is to say. As a kid, this was a common vibe on the school bus. The kids who traced the veins on their hands with markers would blare this. The kid who pulled his pants all the way down to his ankles to piss at urinals, would blare this. This album, embarrassingly, has taken me back to a corner of my childhood which, humiliating as it is to dwell on, once existed. I don’t like that I was exposed to this, but the sounds took me back, back to the school bus smells, back to the sticky hot rubbery seats, back to the kid who would peak over into your space and gleek on you- that is, for the uninitiated, rain spittle ever so delicately on you when you least expected it. God, how embarrassing.
Oh... oh dear... Jonathan Davis is an acquired taste as a vocalist. And I have not acquired it. I had only heard Freak on A Leash going into this which I thought was grudgingly ok(ish). Everything else was new to me. I like the guitars on most of the tracks. I like the heaviness. And I didn't hate Ice Cube turning up. As for everything else, I think the low point is Fred Durst turning up (and increasing all the homophobia), but I'm not sure the bagpipes on the next song were much better. This is essentially an irredeemable album for me. At one point I started daydreaming about Faith No More, and how much I'd rather have been listening to them. Just no. 1/5
I don't care how munch Nu-Metal you try and make my listen to I'm not going to like it. I don't even like the "good" ones, I'm definitely not liking the ones where white guys start beatboxing halfway through the biggest song on the record. Making it well over an hour will not help your case. 2/10. I kinda enjoy the first half of "Freak On A Leash" in a guilty pleasure type of way before previously mentioned beatboxing starts.
I kinda like Freak on a Leash, though that might just be nostalgia. I don't really like the rest of this album. Especially the song with Fred Durst. Absolutely terrible.
Freak On A Leash is a classic, no doubt. The rest of this album is absolute garbage dated edgelord bullshit. The songs with features, in particular, are BAD. The bagpipes on My Gift To You were exciting at first but then I realized, shucks, this song blows too.
hurt my head - the main guy's voice is annoying and out of tune. couldnt finish the album
0 stars
I don't like this, and if there were a way to give it negative stars, I would. I don't like the music, vocals, or lyrics. And on top of it, the whole thing is over an hour long and feels like it takes an eternity to listen to. There is nothing redeeming about this. 0.5 stars.
There are some cool Ragey elements to this - some good moody riffs and Reclaim My Place achieves a nice Killing In The Name simplicity towards the end. Album experience is mostly rot though and that’s all because of often crazy horrid vocals from the main dude. It is true that Fred Durst popping up on one song is light relief and Ice Cube for some reason wades in to dilute the muck as well. Main dude just sounds so revolting though like the frilly necked dinosaur that spits poison at Newman in Jurassic Park but instead of poison it’s caca and instead of spitting he’s gargling it. What the effing effage is that vocal breakdown in Freak On A Leash? It’s like a voice should appear just after it saying ‘Charlie says always tell your mummy before you go off somewhere”. Needless to say but album is way too long at 67 minutes. 1.5 stars.
I have a headache now lol
Awful. Monotonous drumming, and a sense that whatever they were on about, was bitterly unfair. Not my idea of a fun time.
Possibly the worst album yet. The lyrics are something to behold, going from openly homophobic and misogynistic, to childishly angsty, to unintentionally hilarious I’m-a-white-boy-life-is-so-hard, to screamo-scat. It really is as ridiculous as it sounds. How anyone can want to listen to this drivel for over an hour is beyond me. Guantanamo Bay-ass music for sure. Positives include some decent drumming (pretty rare) and a decent Ice Cube feature on the one semi-listenable track. The other feature, with Fred Durst, is the worst on the album and it is one of the worst songs I’ve had the displeasure of consuming. This is an unredeemable album. 0.5/10, and that is GENEROUS
KЯAP
No
Krap
I was never a sullen teenage boy with acne, therefore I don't care.
Appalling. Idiot screeching about how life is unfair ad nauseum. How come the nu metal groups can’t come up with decent riffs?
Ni de coña.
Not my thing
tão ruim quanto eu imagina que era! nu metal nunca deveria ter existido
bom eh isso. esses nu metal do fim de 90 achando que tava abalando eh tudo a mesma coisa. uns gemidinho, uns barulho incompreensível do vocalista, os mesmo instrumento, mesmo som, mesma pseudo rebeldia/gritaria. até tentei não dar 1 pq tem umas que são de boa ATÉ O MANO COMEÇAR A FAZER BARULHOS INCOMPREENSÍVEIS. me irrita demais papo reto, muito ruim
I was trying my best. Giving it a fair go. But Jesus H. Corbett this is total drivel. Every one of the videos on YouTube had page after page after page of comments saying how amazing these songs are. Legendary, pioneering, one of the best bands of all time etc. They must all been 7-8 when it was released and thought it was so cool there were “bad words” in it. If the music I liked at that age was utter dogshit, I would be happy to admit it now. Thankfully that is not the case. Grown-ups who still have time for this music need to ask themselves a few serious questions. I was trying my best…then omg, a diss track came on and while those tend to be kinda cringe, in the wrong hands they can go beyond cringe. Korn are the wrong hands. I always try to listen to the whole of each album. No way this time, All In the Family was my limit. If someone wants to tell me that the real gold is in the last 4 songs, don’t bother. I won’t be using up valuable moments of my life on anything like this again. And in that spirit, I’m gonna stop writi
Everything I hate about music in an album
I really do try to give every album on here a shot. This one didn't last long.
At first I was upset at how absolutely unlistenable this album was, but then I started laughing at it and it made it better. Why Korn didn't credit the Tasmanian Devil on the middle portion of "Seed" is beyond me. I do love a good comic book artist cover -- shoutout Todd McFarlane.
I just really love “Freak on a Leash”
Wow. An entire album of Korn is… not good. This was really rough to get through. Fred Durst is a terrible rapper. Nu-metal is a terrible genre.
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A horrible and unredeemable trip through the gutter. It is a shame that some musical ability was wasted to produce this.
The whiniest man alive growls incest jokes for an hour.
Not my thing
A few weeks ago, for some reason I can’t recall, I ended up reading all about Korn’s first album and listening to it. It gave me more understanding of the pain and personal circumstances of the band members that led them to make such ugly music. Opened my mind a bit. Now I get this album today, and just a few songs in, I’m throwing out all of that open-minded understanding. This shit sucks.
Why are the drums so high in the mix and dry? The singer sounds like he's always on the brink of something, taking a shit, I'm not sure, but its like some affected stressed growl. This is just not my vibe. From a musical standpoint, there doesn't seem to be a great deal of melody or strong musicianship. This music stresses me out.
Hey kids! Let’s write music about white boys who hate their dads! Hey kids! Let’s write music for incels to fantasise about shooting their year 8 science teacher to! Hey kids! Let’s add ice cube so we don’t sound so white! Hey kids! Let’s add Fred Durst so we don’t sound too black! Fuck this turgid shite 1/5
HORRIBLE not to my liking at all!
Pros: - Pre-chorus on Freak on a Leash is pretty catchy - It's not jazz Cons: Everything else
Feel like it says something about the human condition that no group in history had it better than white American dudes in the 90s, and all a large portion of us wanted to do was be mad and listen to bands like Korn and break stuff. Anyway, this album sucks. The only redemptive feature was the song with Fred Durst is one of the more unintentionally funny songs out there
I dislike this SO much
Lacks authenticity....I don't believe them and sense the lyrics and music were designed by an industry VP intended in to catch sales from Linkin Park
Loved it when i was 16, it’s aged like mill
Not my cuppa.
Dead bodies everywhere at sunrise on the bus. Thought I was nearly finished with album but was only on 4th song.
There's not much to say about this album that hasn't already been said. It's pretty damning that when you look through the reviews, all the lengthy, verbose reviews are 1 star and the first 5 star reviews you see are just "nice, it's Korn"... But in the interest of evening things out, providing some balance - playing "Korn's advocate" as it were - Here are some positives from this album: - "Freak On A Leash" is genuinely, unironically great. - There are two whole tracks that don't have an explicit tag on Spotify, and are therefore suitable to subject my children to. (I'm a good Dad though, so I won't be doing this) - Nu-Metal was an innovation as a genre. Not so much this album specifically, but Nu-Metal as a whole... - I don't have to listen to this album ever again. 1/5 I wish "Twist" was on this album YU NA RRUGH EE AH NN DA NN DA BRRRR...
poopy music
I thank god that my friends who might have otherwise gotten into KORN were old enough to have already gotten into Nine Inch Nails and TOOL by the time they came around. Cuz this is awful. I’m also pissed that they ruined that Cheech & Chong bit.
The music was interesting and good at times, and then things really went off the rails around the ice cube and Fred Durst Songs. The album deals with a lot of abuse themes?
This album perfectly exemplifies the phrase "it's not a phase, mom, it's who I am". I appreciate the novelty of this, they use a lot of sounds that I've never heard in music before. And there are certainly lots of bits and baubles that keep my attention. But yeah don't get me wrong, this album is not at all an enjoyable listen and I am excited for it to be over so I can cleanse my ears.
This kind of music makes me feel stressed and that's not why I listen to music. Not an enjoyable experience.
Yuck
God, nu-metal... mijn meest gehate genre. Limp Bizkit en Linkin Park zijn misschien wel mijn minst favoriete bands, of tenminste ze maken absoluut aanspraak op die titel. Korn ken ik dan weer minder goed, volgens mij was dat wel iets minder "Hey we proberen ook te rappen op deze jankende gitaren" en iets meer normale metal. Pfoe, children of the korn is echt een taai nummer om doorheen te komen zeg. Wat een bagger. Zelfs de Ice Cube feature kan daar niet veel meer aan veranderen. Jezus fucking christus, Nu-metal is echt het allerslechtste genre ooit gemaakt. Ik ben ook geen fan van Punk, maar daar zit tenminste nog iets van een boodschap achter, dit is 99% gewoon boze knulletjes die nooit uit de puberteit zijn geraakt. Album duurt ook ruim een uur, heb alsjeblieft medelijden zeg... Ik merk dat ik dit album ook echt slecht trek, als in na een aantal nummers neem ik een vrijwillige pauze om even niet dat continue geschreeuw te horen. Echt elk nummer is vrijwel hetzelfde, een muur van gitaren en beukende drums enzo en dat is prima, maar niet voor ruim een uur met af en toe een schreeuwende zanger met echt de allerallerallerslechtste lyrics die ooit op papier zijn gezet. "Who the fuck you think you're talking to? ME!" "My dick is bigger then yours!" Het is allemaal echt niveau middelbareschoolplein, prima, die hebben ook muziek nodig. Maar gewoon het besef dat deze gasten allemaal in de 20 waren destijds. Blijkbaar waren ze allemaal high van de coke en andere drugs en was het grootste deel van de band vooral seks aan het hebben toen het album werd opgenomen. Weet je? Ik begrijp het meteen, je hoort dat niemand daadwerkelijk bezig was met muziek maken en dat dit vooral een soort coke fueled rage record was. Niets positiefs? Eh, ik vind de cover ergens wel geinig gedaan. FAVO:
My first Korn album. Yeah, not for me. Great video!
Have you ever seen someone wear something that just doesn't fit their personality or aesthetic?? Like they are trying to force it, resulting in a cringe outcome? That is exactly what this feels like, mixed with a man trying to peacock and say shocking things to assert his dominance. This was just bad. It fell flat, but it did give me a good giggle every now and then.
Something Takes A Part Of Me 1001 Albums Generator 175 (12/3/2025) I don't want to do this right now... This week started out so good, I finished my Master's class with an A and got to relisten to Rubber Soul. Now I'm spending over $1000 on car repairs and all I have to show for it is this lousy Korn album. Look at this fucking thing. Look at the stupid, edgy album cover. Take it in. You're gonna be looking at it for over an hour. This list's metal choices piss me off. Death, TOOL, Deftones, Opeth, and Gojira, just to name a few obvious ones (not to mention personal favorites like Deathspell Omega, Blood Incantation, and Between The Buried And Me), are all omitted. Luckily, we have room for Korn, Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, and Kid FUCKING Rock. Anyway, honestly the first few songs on Follow The Leader made me think this might not be so bad. Follow The Leader is unfortunately a classic and Got The Life was surprisingly good too, but much like the children on the cover, the album falls off a cliff around Children of the Korn and never comes back. Every time Jonathan Davis does that retarded thing with his voice (you know the thing), I die. All In the Family is so dumb and I'm laughing at it, not with it, but it makes total sense that this is the song that Fred Durst is on. I guess it's a "strong 1", since the first 4 songs are "technically" alright, but I'm just kinda pissed off that I had to listen to this. Favs: Freak On A Leash Got The Life Dead Bodies Everywhere Least Fav: All In The Family
Certified Metal Mince
yesterday I got possibly the best album ever made, today I got this steaming pile of crap. This things sold over 5 million copies? Man that’s bleak.
Words cannot truly describe my emotions listening to this album. My gosh. First, let's address the elephant in the room, Fred Durst. Now that he's addressed, let's get onto the album. Awful. Just awful. I thought I liked nu metal. I thought I liked Freak on a Leash. I have never listened to it with a critical eye and honestly it's just not very good. Then, flop after flop and this album is just boring at best and the worst sounds you've ever let grace your ears at worst. The best part of this album is Slimkid3 and Ice Cube. I don't even like hip hop that much. Who let this album reach the public? That has to be against some federal law. The guitarist is really good though.
Why the gratuitous homophobia? Were they delusional enough to think they would develop an unwanted gay fan base? No, probably just an attempt to look tough, like a toddler screaming fuck.
Korn is bad for the digestion, both going in and coming out. It doesn’t help that it sounds like Jonathan Davis is singing while sitting on the can. If it was 60 minutes shorter I might give it a charity star because of this tidbit from the Wikipedia: “According to Wright, Robinson went to extreme lengths to agitate Davis in the vocal booth, including punching him in the back repeatedly.” Call the mandatory minimum 1-star I’m required to select the charity star.
One hour and seven minutes of Korn is quite a lot of Korn
Not my jam.
If I could give this garbage 0 stars I would
Really not my cup of tea. 1/5
Cookie Monster screams about how his daddy and the females hate him. The sound of the band is actually not bad—often, they’re quite talented. I guess it may be my best-sounding 1/5. What an ignominious honor. Best song: Freak on a Leash
Dreadul. My bowels sing sweeter tunes.
I like KORN fineish. Not a fan of Jonathan Davis, his vocals get on my nerves. Before I relisted to this album (it's been years) I was planning on giving it 3 stars. I prefer the first album and Life Is Peachy over this one but then I heard Fred Durst on the record and that song is fucking trash. I dig Korn's Nu-Metal shit, but Fred Durst is shit and if you have him on your album that is not saving you, even Ice FUCKING Cube having a guest spot on your album will not save you from the 1 star of Fred Durst.
I’ve not got time to listen to this kinda shit. Got through 3 songs and turned this nonsense off. Not an album that needs to be heard in any way.
I know people love these guys, but I never caught the bug, and this album didn't do it. It feels closer to Marilyn Manson in its impotent rage that feels more like a tantrum than declaration, insistence, or even resistance. Except that it also feels like teenagers that think lots of obscenity, homophobia, and rape-yness counts as sticking it to the man of squares or whatever.
I more or less want to just forget the whole nu-metal thing happened*, but in 1998, blaring this as loud as you could made you feel invincible. 27 (!) years later and the two singles ("Got the Life" and "Freak on a Leash") with monster rhythm sections still rile me all the way up. I'll admit this had a home in my CD binder, and for like 3 months of my life, a place in my 6-disc changer. However, there are two issues with this album. First, the rampant homophobia and misogyny are out of control. What was it about the late 90s that fueled white men to be so pointlessly cruel? Second, it's basically the same formula over and over again, with no real discernible differences. It certainly doesn't need to be an hour and seven minutes. Putting the two monster singles that have at least some personality right up top saps any potential momentum it could have had. There are albums out there that sound like they were crafted during drug-fueled orgies because of their sharp teeth and dangerous, slightly sleazy vibe (Prince and Iggy Pop are two sides of a spectrum on this.) This one literally was and yet there's not a whiff of any carnal temptation that seems worth throwing your life away to pursue. It's all tilting at windmills with no care or craft, rendering the whole thing impotent. Which, given the bacchanalian way the album was made, I guess makes some sense. Still, the two singles have a permanent place on several of my shuffled nostalgic playlists and workout playlists, and if I'm in the right mood and/or setting I'm always game to sing along and remember what it was like to be a teenager in the late 90s. (Not for nothing, but watching those kids explode at Woodstock 99 on MTV in the various docs they made about it was nuts. Somehow Korn was the biggest band on the planet for a year or two. Just absolutely wild.) *obligatory note that Deftones are the exception to everything I'm positing about nu-metal, a category they got clumped into and then transcended. And still "White Pony" is nowhere to be found on a list that includes albums by Korn, Limp Bizkit, Kid Rock, and Linkin Park.
This sucks... some real good basslines here, big fan of the bass tone and the drumming is good, but not enough to outweigh the unbearable cringe, molested my ears. That song with the Fred Durst vocals is one of the worst things I've ever heard in my life
Tedious nu metal. If there weren't gaps between tracks, I would have thought it was pretty much a 67 minute song with tempo changes.
This held up much better than its contemporaries. I guess a metaphorical Full Windsor rather than a Slip...sorry. I think Jonathan Davis said it best in Freak on a Leash, "Mmmmmm na da nnnnnnnn da da da. Mmmmmm na da nnnnnnnn da da da. Mmmmmm na da nnnnnnnn da da da. Mmmmmm na da nnnnnnnn da da da. Mmmmmm na da nnnnnnnn da da da. Mmmmmm na da nnnnnnnn da da da. Mmmmmm na da nnnnnnnn da da da. Mmmmmm na da nnnnnnnn da da da. Mmmmmm na da nnnnnnnn da da da. Mmmmmm na da nnnnnnnn da da da. Mmmmmm na da nnnnnnnn da da da. Mmmmmm na da nnnnnnnn da da da." I take it back. This is every bit as bad as Slipknot.
I used to think that I might like Korn, but every time I would actually listen to a song I'd be underwhelmed. And then I listened to an entire album and ... well... now I don't feel like I ever have to wonder if I like Korn again.
DNF
Lmfao how did they get ice cube. Some funky ass white boys but yuck. … maybe we dont need funky ass white boys. Better than slipknot self titled? ONE!
These guys have some major issues.
(7/100)
Dreadful
Auf dem Heimweg im Zug vom Pogendroblem Konzert nach Hause. Ich hab ja gedacht, dass ich sie damals Jacke fand, weil man sie halt kacke finden musste. Aber offenbar finde ich sie einfach kacke.
Nope. Never.
DNF. I do not like this.
Bad!
NOPE
The audio equivalent of the smelliest guy at the party cornering you and saying “you really need to listen to Dance with the Devil by AESOP Rock, but like REALLY listen to it, hahaha” and then he flashes a weird fucking smile
Some of the drum and guitar grooves are an interesting skeleton, but then everything on top seems designed to sound as irritating as possible (singer, lead guitar tones, random extra noise). Somehow this is the worst thing Ice Cube has ever been part of, even counting Amazon's War of the Worlds.
Hey, you know what aged really poorly? That song where Fred Durst and Korn Man insult each other
This is just awful. Korn represents the mall rat douche bags who populated the suburbs at the end of the 20th century whose lives oozed with privilege but they were angry about something. The songs all slog along a mid tempo hip-hop beat while the guitarists dick around with harmonics and effects rigs. Listening to this is the aural equivalent of a of eating a Taco Bell Mexican pizza from a dumpster behind the mall with a very large Mountain Dew.
Korns studio efforts always pail in comparison to their live work.
My first child was still a baby when this was released. I was past the angsty teen stage of my life. I did not like the way nu-metal sounded, so I never bothered listening to any Korn music. This was all new to me. It started off decent enough before it descended into edgy, angry, juvenile, explicit, screamy, growling, garbage. And it was over an hour long. Also they diss Winger. I will not stand for that.
Can’t be bothered
A slog.
If I could give this a zero I would. I lived through this period. I was in high school. No one needs to listen to Korn before they die.
This was not for me. A lot of yelling and screaming. 1.6/10
More palatable than Slipknot. But still just sounds so futile.
Deze gasten zijn goed getikt. Even een stukje normaal zingen is er niet bij. Verder worden weer alle donkere krochten van de menselijke ziel opgezocht, waar ik ook niet om gevraagd had. Werkelijk afschuwelijke nihilistische bagger, een andere benaming heb ik er niet voor. Halverwege afgezet. Ik ga even een andere leider volgen.
I love corn but I hate Korn
It's Korn! It doesn't have the juice! Also I knew there was a reason why I stuck to Linkin Park during the nu-metal craze.
Great another limp bizkit adjacent band. For some reason I expected to enjoy this more but it's genuinely really bad. Limp bizkit at least has some catchy songs. Korn just throws a bunch of vulgar shit at the wall and hopes some of it sticks. The lyrics are terrible the instrumentals are terrible I genuinely don't understand how people like this band. 2/10 Favourite: None Least Favourite: All in the Family
This is where corn jumped a shark. I mean really one of the lyrics is get your boogie on. Cringe. I didn't like it then. I don't like it now
Did not listen to Come back to later on
The beginning o the end for great it's rock. Insert mad at the world, I hate my parents, blame everyone for my decision emo screamo rock. Hate Korn
Laughably bad... at least i was able to laugh at the rapping efforts and some random noises
I heard Korn once and since then have done everything in my power to never hear it again, this was a close call!
This album sounds like a 14-year-old boy's bedroom smells.
I had streak of three great albums in a row and it was bound to end at some point.
Been putting this one off for like a month because I expected it to suck, and honestly it does? It's more interesting than like post-grunge or whatever, but "I guess I'd prefer this to Creed" isn't enough to avoid the 1, I'm afraid.
My first exposure to Korn was a collab with Notorious BIG of all people. I hated it. Now I get to listen to over an hour of it. It's for edgy teens who do poorly in school. Any high reviews are of those edgy teens that are now adults. It really is horrible. 1/5
Pointless, generic "Nu" Metal from a group that desperately wants to be seen as edgy.
Nu Metal is not anything I need to hear before I die ... I heard it, and it sucks! Kill me already!
No
1/2
Métal
Didn’t float my boat
Not for me
I don't get it. What are its messages? Who are its audience? It's not even actually shocking, if that's what the album was going for. Sure, it's influential -- unfortunately.
In the late 90s around suburban New Zealand, there were tonnes of kids who claimed they loved this album. Kids under the age of 12 who claimed they loved this album. Wore the tshirt etc. I can't really complain, my mother bought me a South Park tshirt with the word 'ASS' on it when I was 10 (which is MASSIVELY surprising considering she would have skinned me alive had she caught me watching the show!). Call me all the names you want, but I would be horrified if my ten year old son was listening to this crud. It's angry, uninspiring and quite depressing. You can tell that there is a talented musician calling the shots, as there is a nice range of guitar lines and structures within the songs. Sadly, it's overridden by tasteless screams and kind-of-whine-and-cry-but-still-sound-menacing vocals. There's nothing wrong with raw angst and anger, and there were plenty of albums that did this well in the 90s, trust me! But, this is miserable. I gave up. Couldn't get past the halfway mark. Go on, judge me! Ice Cube (cool!) and Fred Durst (not cool!) make cameos. But even that doesn't help this age well. I'm sure there are a lot of lawyers, accountants and surveyors who have embarrassing memories of listening to this (and probably even more so when they read the lyrics!). Say 'Okay Boomer!' to me if you wish, but this was a 1 star. And hell, I'll say it, would have been 1 star in 1998 when I was a ten year old! 1 Star (even though I cheated and never finished it!).
This album is like enjoying a loving, privileged upbringing. You decide that you want to be edgy, so you start lashing out at your parents, even though they are supportive of everything you do. You have literally nothing to complain about in life, but you complain anyway as if you have it tougher that everyone else. Nobody listens to your complaints, and your parents hate you.
NOt for me
I really thought that I’d enjoy this… I did not.
Dog shite
Would have given it a 2 maybe if not for the lyrics. Very future-convict edgelord teen vibes.
Ah NuMetal the bands that influenced the genre were good. The bands that are NuMetal ARE NOOOOOTTTTTT “in my best NuMetal voice” … I Tried and it’s just not good at all.
Too discordant for me
This was a tough one… the Ice Cube feature was a nice reprieve.
+: All in the Family, Cameltosis +-: It's On!, Got the Life, Dead Bodies Everywhere, Justin, Seed, My Gift to You -: Freak on a Leash, Children of the Korn, B.B.K., Pretty, Reclaim My Place 3,2/10
1/5.
This album is a muddy mess which occasionally yields something sonically interesting. It's innovative in a few ways, so I guess it belongs on this list, but does every possible thing really need to be invented?
I haven’t listened to Korn since middle school but I did what I usually don’t and read the reviews before listening and thought, Oh no. And then I started listening and I thought hey this isn’t too bad! Not my favorite but Freak On a Leash still is catchy as hell :D …And then Children of the Korn started. And then All in the Family was somehow worse. I ended up taking out my headphones halfway through to prevent my brain from leaking out of my ears and accidentally skipped the next song. Then I was punished by being yelled at that I’m going to die. I disassociated for a bit then woke up to some Britney Spears-esque vocal fry in My Gift to You. Then i checked out again.
.an Korn was so popular with the emo kids I knew in middle school, but I always thought it was pretty cringe, and I think that doubly after listening here. At times I kind of dig the trashiness of the Nu Metal rock in here, it can scratch the weird parts of the brain. But it didn't clip its nails and will eventually (on short order) scratch and scrape and start to hurt. An hour+ is way too long. The only song here I really knew was Freak on a Leash and it's really the only song I want to know. The lyrics are crass and abusive and just pretty empty in general. Maybe there is a mindset of people that need to hear this, but then again, I find it hard to believe that this would help them get out of that mindset.
The bass sounds like they forgot to plug it into the amp and just held a mic really close to it. Can't stand the vocals. This is, if anything, worse than Limp Bizkit. Couldn't finish.
I do have some nostalgia for Freak on a Leash, but nostalgia doesn't make me a nu metal fan.
This was terrible when new and hasn't aged well.
nope.
"Ooom da got da boom da gut de boom gat" -me when hear a knock at the door
I genuinely believe this is the worst bass tone of all time. The Fred Durst feature that devolves into homoeroticism and (very quickly) homophobia is one of the most fascinating pieces of media I’ve ever consumed. All in all, nu-metal bad (all of it) and the current revival of it is pissing me off.
This is one of the worst pieces of crap, I have listen to from this list. Who buys this crap?
1/2
Used to like it. Just not my taste of music anymore
"go figure, once a fag, now a player" Oh wow
When this first came out I thought it was the worst thing I'd ever heard in my damn life and that it was a harbinger of the inexorable decay of society. I was right.
Superdry
No thanks. Never need to listen to any thing as vulgar as Korn.
Nope. I tried and decided not to waste my time.
I was actually almost enjoying this, in a hilarious vaguely nostalgic ironic throwback way, where they really want to sound dangerous, even though their sound is preposterous. But then Fred Durst showed up on "All in the Family" and really put the entire thing into perspective. It's just so childish, so homophobic, so misogynistic. While this was made for edgy teenagers like my older brother was in the 90s, a bunch of guys in their late 20s should definitely, you know, have grown up. And then I saw that there were 6 more tracks left! Usually the dogshit "featuring" track marks the end of an album, but I was barely halfway through? Fuck.
Uninspired nu metal. Gimmicky shouting vocals and monotonous grinding music.
Oh fan me down. The difficulties.fo being young white American man. Oh very difficult.your truth.os such a cross. Spare me. Tired. Yawn, sad I wasn't a kid when this was out. I may have become more gay, more experimental, less bothered by the.preoccupations of my fellow white kids
Even worse than I thought it would be
An album that definitely does not belong on this list. Has not held up to time, and was not the album or band that influenced the nu metal genre from this era. An album that I dislike now as much as I did when it came out.
all in the family is the worst song i've ever heard the opener was pretty good tho 1/10
This was trash. I actually quite like Freak on a Leash, and I’m open-minded even to Nu Metal, but this sucks. It has aged awfully. All in the Family is a top 10 worst track that I’ve heard during the 1001 so far. I was thinking this was a 2 star, but the last 4 tracks are somehow even worse than the start of the album. They sound like they were written by a dangerously angsty 12 year old. 1.4/5
No
find every copy of this album and burn it. erase it from the internet. go back in time to when the members of this band were babies and pay for their families to move to the opposite sides of the globe so that they never meet. all of this would be doing too little to destroy this wretched album.
Does not belong.
I know some cool people, people of taste, who unironically love Korn. When this album came up, I was excited to check them out for the first time. Terrible.
Einfach nur Gebrülle!
I wasn’t aware that vague screaming paired with some background noise now qualifies as music. Good to know.
Ugh. Well... it's over and I'll never have to listen to it again. So there's that.
Good God this sounds like ass. Some of the instrumentals sound okay but this just sounds ugly and crap. Not for me at all, even back when I was listening to nu metal.
Nope
Not a fan.
I can imagine metalheads going nuts over this group live, moshing the night away (is that a thing for metal bands?), but boy this was painful. Vocals just screaming, horrible lyrics, and not a melody to be found. Decent drumming, though.
It seems “got the life” got its hooks into me so thoroughly when this first came out that I still like it. The rest, though…
Not for me.
Every song has pretty decent guitars. I even started to like some of them. But every time they ruin it with either the worst beatboxing or a goofy sound effect solo. Fun fact, this album features Cheech of Cheech and Chong just so you can know it's a joke before you make the mistake of listening to it.
Boring TBH, the only good part was Ice Cube.
2loud4me
this nu-metal is not the kind of metal I like - too shouty and a lack of searing solos
easily the worst one yet and I struggle to see what will be worse then this highlights: none
I usually love some nu metal, but this was difficult to get through.
This album sounds like a band with nothing to say stole the vocals (and to some extent the sound) from a Deftones album that was released a year earlier. The fact that Korn had any fanbase by 1998 when people could've just move towards a much better Deftones doesn't make any sense to me. 1.5 out of 5 rounded down because the rapping is so lame on this album and All In The Family is just uncomfortable in so many ways. Also that's the worst outro I've ever heard. I don't even know why this album made the list, it seems like people generally like Korn's debut more.
I have one rule for an automatic one star, use of the f-slur.
the rap interlude somehow made this worse
Fucking horrible schizo ramblings of a psycho idk how this was popular
It’s giving manifesto and not in a good way. It’s for some people I’m sure, just not me! I essentially listened to this against my will, 0/10 never would again. I don’t even think I would ironically acknowledge I ever did this.
1+ Stars (3/15)
dropped an f bomb or two in ALL IN THE FAMILY and I dropped it right down to 2 stars, maybe 1. I've never been so relieved to hear Bridgerton start again.
I went into this with an open mind and they managed to close that bitch back up so damn fast. I could’ve died 9 times without ever listening to this. At least Ice Cube’s verse was cool!
Я всю жизнь не любил эту группу, и теперь в миллиард лет я ставлю группе КОРН единицу за всех тех уебанов, которые ее-таки любили и ни во что меня не ставили. Идите НА-ХУЙ! Во имя внутренних забуленных детей! А музыка просто неинтересная. Лучшая песня - Freak On A Leash.
Energy was nice in the beginning but the annoying vocal style + edginess + spontaneously turning into a gremlin bring it down. Then "All In The Family" brings it even lower. Then a few tracks later I can't even be bothered to finish
Nope
I think (and desperately hope) that this is the last nu metal album on this list. All In the Family is enough to make this a 1 star. None of the rest is enjoyable either. Annoying vocals, bad lyrics (with plenty misogyny and homophobia because that seems to be the theme of this genre), and nothing about the music really drew me in either.
I love nu-metal But I fucking despise Korn
Say what? Korn flakes, that’s what. This album is an hour of some whiny, angry guy yelling into the void over screeching, droning, static scratching noise (music?) while a couple of band mates whisper “korn” in dark, hushed tones in the background. Earache My Eye is the Weird Al parody of themselves, which is funny but still not good. Couldn’t wait for this one to be over, alt rock is just not enjoyable to me in any way. (1.2*s)
Just terrible. How's garbage like this and not one but two Slipknot albums on the list? I get that in the late 90s Nu-metal was all the rage for some reason but it still sucks.
Just when I thought it couldn't get any worse, they brought in some hiphop artists... Terrible
Suffering from a severe lack of sober adults in the studio.
One of the worst things I’ve ever heard.
I've never listened to them before. Oh, yeah. Not for me.
Nope.
Loud and thuggish metal that has additionally imported several of the features that make me dislike hip hop, like random noises.
nah.
Frightful.
Trashy and now I know why I never listened to this back in the day when it was cool (it never actually was)
Here's my most positive thoughts while listening to this album: It's not Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water. Sometimes, they sound like they can almost pull off a cheap System of a Down cover band. It's encouraging that their homophobia has gone a complete 360, from being totally fine, to being a huge problem, to being just annoying, and now it's just quaint. It's good that this rage is directed at nothing in particular, otherwise I might have to care about it. Oh, hey, he can, in fact, sing competently enough to not be kicked out of middle school choir. It's unfortunate that he doesn't try to do that often. It's comforting that my grandpa's friend, who barely remembers which hole to blow in yet still played at his funeral, is not the worst use of bagpipes in my lifetime. Racist album skits are not just for rappers. Congratulations on bringing non-musical racism to a broader audience. The last two minutes of this album might be the best work they've done. I'd like to see it built out into a full song. By someone else. I'd like to make it clear that I have Linkin Park, Finger Eleven, and Evanescence CDs within reach while I write this. I don't hate nu metal. I hate this, though.
Bandet lyder cool! Fede riffs, meget groovy! Jonathan Davis lyder som en 11-årig der er meget stolt af alle de fede bandeord han kender, det er pinligt at høre på
no❤️
I'm not a Korn addict :/
Honestly, fuck this garbage. For the first three songs, I was thinking "this is... not that bad? The lyrics are cringy and I hate the vocals but if it were instrumental I could maybe even give this four stars?" but it all just dramatically devolved from there. Awful stuff, truly, and I'm extra annoyed about it for starting off not completely awful and pulling a bait and switch. I fear that listening to this album in full caused some germline mutations that will undoubtedly increase the odds of any future children to be glue-eating little assholes that are mean to animals. 0/10
Just say no to nu-metal
Korn and other associated acts have their place in a specific point of time. That point of time is VERY specific and you either love or hate that era of music. I'm specifically talking about nu metal of course, the alt-metal/hip-hop fusion that many know it as. Very much a relic of its time. I've never really had any interest in Korn outside of their singles, and the first two singles you hear on this album are fine enough ("Freak on a Leash", "Got the Life"). It's after that around track 5 (the Ice Cube feature) where things go past the point of no return. I know nu metal is supposed to be visceral, but that track was that unenjoyable. Things just never improve after that point, as the next track with a feature ("All in the Family" with Fred Durst) was just as brutal to listen through. The instrumentalism isn't being questioned here, the drums are guitar playing all throughout are fine. It's just that the distortion sounds/scatting over the disturbing lyrics is too much for almost anyone, let alone myself.
I tried.
I know the poster to this album well. When I was a teen boy all the other teen boys were obsessed with Korn. Listened to this album non-stop, had the band’s pictures plastered on their walls, and talked about them all the time like they were modern day profits. I was mostly scared by the heaviness of the music, and preferred to explore other types of music. I’m glad people still get value out of this. I continue to wrinkle my nose at it like the absolute square that I am. 1/5
Yeah, not really my thing.
I never got into nu metal hen it came around the first time, and in the intervening years I've definitely been more on the Slipknot, System of a Down side of the genre - I'm deeply not a fan of this album, it turns out. From the weird vocalizations, to the bass downtuned so far you can't hear anything over the slappity noises of the strings, to the very 2000s homophobia and a collaboration with Fred Durst who sounds SO like he can't be arsed doing anything here, I personally think this is just a real misfire.
Honestly? I thought I was going to hate this, but in fact, I *really* hated it. 0/5
Brings back bad memories of aggro middle school guys who loved Korn
gonna be a no from me
Pass
👎👎
irredeemable. an hour of pure shit- the track with Fred durst being rock bottom. if I ever hear anyone calling themselves a korn fan I will forever doubt their taste and brain
Not good
Korn is shit
Meh
Not my thing
oh dear god it's over an hour long.. alright here goes. Immediate thoughts are that there are some good simple but thrashy grooves and riffs on this. There are some heavy hooks and breakdowns that are accompanied by weird little turntablist sounds and samples, which is cool. That little warble in track one added an otherworldly element which is cool. This poor guy with the microphone is a bit much, however. You can be angry, but if you don't want me to think you're a weak little bitch about it, you can't be wallowing 100% of the time. It seems to be a recent movement to revisit nu-metal at this stage, now that many of those bands are now considered "legacy acts" on touring circuits. Nu-metal, like pop-punk & emo, is now past their prime and that legacy is being examined. It seems that in the face of angst and disconnection in our current day and age, many listeners recognized an enduring fondness for this genre. Where once an anger at father & mother and a community alienation gave rise to the blunt thrash of this music, now we have alienation across a divisive social & digital landscape. I understand the calling to reach for old comfort music, especially with some sonic innovation. Korn was better than many in the genre at combining hip hop beats, funk pedals, metal shredding, and psychedelic production techniques. While ultimately not as cringe-inducing as the Limp Bizkits & Stainds of the era, being hardly the worst is no passing grade. Korn was hard to take this seriously then, and it's harder to take it seriously now. Next time I'll prefer to reach for some System of A Down, Slipknot, or Tool (does Tool count?) should my inner angst reach that point. Got a ways to go on this album, wish me luck while I let it play out.
I couldn’t make it all the way through. And I’m quite honestly embarrassed that I almost got through half of it.
1 star, not even their best album and even if it were, there are still many better albums that could be on this list.
Wedged in the festering bowels of late-90s rock, this nu-metal abomination refuses to be flushed away, clinging to cultural memory like an undigested kernel of pure sonic waste.
Ah Nu Metal. I quite liked this genre with Linkin Park and Limp Bizkit, but this lot passed me by. For good reason, it's awful, especially the vocals which were, like fully fledged Metal, cringeworthy at best. This is like a desert for me in terms of music.
Never liked Korn based on their radio “hits”. Listening to the whole album did nothing to change that. It’s actually worse than expected
only liked the second song when i want to listen metal i surely would put something else on. hope that speaks for itself xx
Moderne metal, numetal, for langt
I have never felt more let down that I did when I generated this. Actually let out a dramatic, slow-motion “noooooooooo.” Last day of the year, last day of my first year doing the project, just got an all-time favorite yesterday, and now this. I know I’m not a Korn fan (at all, even a little) but I had to listen anyway. And wow. If I saw some of these lyrics I would be one million percent sure someone was just playing an awful joke…how is this real? THIS is what all those kids in high school were obsessed with???? Lately I’ve felt bad about being so judgy as a teen, but not anymore. This is over-the-top, comically bad trash, except that’s rude to trash.
I loathed nu metal at the time - Korn seemed maybe slightly less detestable than many of the other acts, but I was never really a fan. I thought this might scrape 2 stars, but no, pretty wretched. Jonathan Davis' vocal ticks do not entertain me - it's all super cringe. Fave track - ugh..... Well, "Reclaim My Place" comes immediately after a track featuring Fred Durst, and the relief experienced that there was no more Fred Durst is about as close as I'll come to liking any of these dog eggs, so that one I guess. 😠
Lots of hate in the reviews for this. Well that hate is totally deserved, as one reviewer said in my mother tongue: "Tering wat een troep" Only positive thing I can say is that I don't hate Jonathan Davis as much as I hate Johnny Rotten but it is damn close. I did manage to liusten to the whole album something I now regard as waisting my time.
This album is maybe the best example of an album that absolutely no one needs to hear before they die. 1/5
It's just so stupid
Today's lunch: Kumara sourdough sandwich with slices of smoked cheddar, mushroom and red pepper, cooked in the sandwich press until the cheese was melting and oozing out the sides. Could have used some rocket or spinach, but out was delicious nonetheless. 4½ out of 5. This album though? It's the worst one yet. Awful "singing". Facile, whiny, homophobic, misogynistic lyrics. -5/5
We're at album #405, and this is possibly the most lyrically bad album so far. I won't go into the lyrics, because frankly I'm exhausted after 67 minutes of this nonsense. Nu metal is also a pretty bad and unpolished genre, particularly in the pre-2000s era. As a whole, Follow The Leader is (I guess) listenable – but barely. The riffs are vaguely interesting, and in a very specific mood I could see myself enjoying this, but at the moment it's not doing much for me. The artist features on the album are also horrible picks. Fred Durst is widely recognised as one of the worst singers and frontmen in the music world, and the track All In the Family doesn't do him (or Korn) any favours. It's bad. Ice Cube is better, though again rapping is a very questionable choice for the nu metal genre. The song Children of the Korn is a complete outlier in the album, sounding more like a purely Ice Cube-dubbed hit – and it's also pretty bad. Cameltosis, featuring Slimkid3, is experimental-sounding and continues the trend of horrendous, misogynistic, disgusting lyricism. Earache My Eye is a six-and-a-half-minute throwaway track featuring an extended skit/spoken intro followed by several minutes of uninspired ear-blistering guitar noise. The tracks Freak On a Leash and Dead Bodies Everywhere are certainly the only two mildly enjoyable tracks, and any of the others having more than a million Spotify streams is a tragedy. 1/5 Key tracks: Freak On a Leash, Dead Bodies Everywhere
Ik ben tijdens dit album door alle 9 lagen van Dante's hel gegaan. Waar ik - zoals altijd - against all odds met positieve energie het album tegemoet ging, en het begin zelfs een paar aardige momenten in petto bleek te hebben (einde 'Freak On a Leash', de inbreng van Ice Cube 'Children of the Korn'), werd het beetje bij beetje steeds ondragelijker. En zeg nou zelf, een langzame afdaling in Dante's hel is veel meer confronterend en vernederend dan een directe sprong. Voor ik het doorhad zat ik te luisteren naar de fragile masculinity-rap metal van Limp Bizkit. En wat is dat duivelse gescat? Dat 'uhmushahahuhmushahumushushumu' in nummers als 'B.B.K.' en 'Freak on the Leash'? Zulke fratsen - naast de ronduit toxische energie in de songs - laten me geen andere keuze dan weer eens een grandioze onvoldoende te geven. 2,5/10
Tijdens het eerste nummer It's On kreeg ik zo'n erge zweetaanval en jeuk over m'n hele lichaam dat ik Korn heb afgezet en afgezworen zolang ik fatsoenlijk gehoor heb.
Nu-metal on kyllä ihmiskunnan suurimpia syntejä. Lapsellista ja raskasta kuunnella. Nyt menee kyl 1/5.
thank god this is 70 minutes, they just have so much to say!
I expected to hate this. The first couple songs I thought maybe this isn't that bad? But then it kept going, and going. Tracks blended together, I kept opening Spotify to see how many to go. And just when I thought it's finally ending the worst song of all. Horrid, torturous album. Will surely never listen again
1001 Albums #13 the amount of metal this website is generating is FOUL don't like it
That was not fun
I tried but this sucks.
Freak on a Leash Got the Life
1.2 Boom-da-da-mmm-dum-na-ee-ma Da-boom-da-da-mmm-dum-na-ee-ma Da-boom-da-da-mmm-dum-na-ee-ma Da-boom-da-da-mmm-dum-na-ee-ma Da-boom-da-da-mmm-dum-na-ee-ma Da-boom-da-da-mmm-dum-na-ee-ma Da-boom-da-da-mmm-dum-na-ee-ma Da-boom-da-da-mmm-dum-na-ee-ma Da-boom-da-da-mmm-dum-na-ee-ma Da-boom-da-da-mmm-dum-na-ee-ma Da-boom-da-da-mmm-dum-na-ee-ma Da-boom-da-da-mmm-dum-na-ey GO! Korn sucks
Honestly, not as dumb as was expected, but the ridiculously drawn out length tied with the goofy, almost parody level delivery takes this album from being just a boring time waster, to something offensive to the ears. This isn't because of the lyrics, although Fred Durst and co. does spew some garbage, but rather because with each additional track your brain dissolves bit by bit. Seemingly the same forgettable guitar, the same vocal delivery, and you're lucky to make it a track without Jonathan Davis putting on a ridiculous voice that is difficult to take seriously. When we got the bagpipes, I knew no one should take it seriously, no matter how badly Korn wants you to. It's just tiring, a product of its era, and the else said about it perhaps the better. Oddly enough, still see plenty of Korn shirts in 2024... huh.
Earache to my eye? No, just earache! All sounded the same to me.
No. Especially not the obscene bits.
Never listened to korn. Ok I’m gonna skip this one I think. So far I’ve given every album a chance but this is just not enjoyable for me. I’m doing this challenge as a way to educate myself and discover popular music but I can’t get into this at all. I like some heavier stuff like Metallica and In This Moment but this is not the tea for me. Lacks melody and is just so one-tone IN MY OPINION. So I’m gonna respectfully skip this Made it to: track 7, Pretty
I hated this album
This was a phase
Je n'avais jamais pris la peine d'écouter vraiment du Korn et si ça c'est considéré parmi leurs meilleurs, je ne veux certainement pas écouter les autres albums. C'est tellement gênant comme musique, je ne peux pas croire qu'encore aujourd'hui les gens écoutent cela non-ironiquement. Les scats du chanteur m'ont tellement fait roulé des yeux, c'est littéralement embarrassant. Le mixing est horrible, les compositions non originales. La seule raison pourquoi je ne donne pas un zero est qu'il faut leur donner qu'ils ont essayé de quoi que personne d'autre ne faisait. 2/10
This was the worst thing to happen to me in a long time. I honestly can’t believe I sat through it all. The lowlights eventually became the highlights: I’ve never heard a song as bad as All In the Family. There was nothing redeeming happening on this album.
Like a couple of tracks, but couldn't get into the album as a whole
I was going to give this a 2 since it's everything I hate in 90s music. Too long. Shitty guitars. Shitty vocals. But god damn then All in the Family came on and it's just so immature and the fact they thought to release shows me they aren't worthy of a good rating.
Scream mumble and distort the lyrics. Take some old RHCP funk and slam it in behind. Turn your K around. Voila - instant wank noise for skater bois looking for something noisier.
used to love this record. i can still see a tiny bit of that, but mostly its cringe a la cringe.
1.5 for managing to get through the whole album even though it was a definite no thank you
Never really liked this band, but had never really listened to them. Now at least I understand why I don't like them.
ick. nu metal sucks.