![]() ![]() ![]() Watch: Korn – In The Studio ( Reconciliation documentary clip) And on opener Prey For Me, washboard-like bass synths actually provide a little extra oomph. But the boys have kept their penchant for experimentation – a double-edged sword for a band like Korn – mostly sequestered to their pedalboards. Yes, the drum loop on Spike In My Veins will make you cringe and to hear lead single Never Never (arguably the weakest but, of course, most radio-friendly song on the album) you could be forgiven for anticipating 11 more tracks worth of synth noise that sucks even for dubstep. 2011’s The Path of Totality don’t compromise the quality of the album as a whole. Though credit where credit’s due, they’ve managed to restrain themselves enough that echoes of “nu-metal gets drunk and meets drum and bass at a party” a.k.a. Unfortunately, the band didn’t learn their lesson the first time and persist in furnishing perfectly good songs with needless electronic boom-bap. Tracks like Prey For Me and Love & Meth, meanwhile, marry the sophisticated, atmospheric, loud-quiet-loud song-smithing of the band’s Follow The Leader and Issues era, with the over-produced sheen of Take a Look in the Mirror and the following, Head-less output. What We Do recalls the energy and cocksureness of the band’s self-titled debut, while Punishment Time bears the almost orchestral, sky-is-falling walls of guitar noise that pervaded sophomore effort Life Is Peachy. Watch: Korn reunite with Head ( Reconciliation documentary clip) All the tropes of their first five albums – each of them near-flawless permutations of the hard rock that floated around in that listless slice of the ’90s wedged between grunge and Napster – can be found here. A decade removed from the peak of the nu-metal they themselves helped forge, Korn now have an opportunity to give their own take on the sound they were too busy constructing to bother copying. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |