Is this the most misunderstood band of all time? There's so many people that dismiss them as "just another nu-metal band", but they're so much more than that! Korn never cared about the fact that they pioneered nu-metal.
They never tried to pull off that "hip and cool" attitude that other nu-metal bands like Limp Bizkit and Saliva were doing. And honestly, their sound was pretty different from the other nu-metal bands. Everyone was trying to mix metal with rap, while Korn was just making metal songs at a slower tempo with darker/creepier sounding melodies.
Their angst wasn't fake either. While bands like Coal Chamber were definitely using "fake angst" to look cool with the kids, Korn's angst was undoubtedly real! Their famous song "Daddy" which has Jonathan literally break down and start crying for 10 minutes after touching on his mental trauma from being abused as a child... You can't tell me that's fake angst!
Is this the most misunderstood band of all time...
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The problem is they never evolved.
They are almost in their 50s now... Come on write about something else
Agreed.
Oldfag here. I actually saw Korn in small clubs in southern California before they became popular. At the time, they'd often share bills with thrash bands and golden era death metal bands, along with post-grunge bands. I saw a lot of heavy, dark music at that time: Morbid Angel, Deicide, Entombed, obituary, Carcass were all arguably at their peak, all vying to be the heaviest, darkest, creepiest thing out there, but whenever Korn would take the stage, they just blew all these other bands away, BY FAR. They were heavier, harder, meaner, scarier, realer, and darker. You could FEEL the dark power of this band, and it was visceral in a way that nobody else on the scene was.
I'm not surprised they became big; they deserved it. But they did lose a little in the translation from smaller stages to bigger ones.
Heck. John Davis pretty much made Limp Bizkit. He helped Fred out a lot when he was coming up. He basically got Fred's foot in the door.
they're somewhat of a guilty pleasure of mine. their music is too edgy for me with lyrics that are too shitty and gay for me to take very seriously, but some of their songs are alright.
i'm not a big metal guy in general though. the only metal bands i really like are tool, rage against the machine, and system of a down.
This, to be honest. I liked Follow The Leader as a teenager and I still think it's their best, but they downgraded somewhat with Issues and then spent the rest of their career trying to remake it, save for that one dubstep album.
just stopping in to say primus invented nu-metal, not korn
Godflesh invented Nu Metal