Metal Reviews

Korn are shit, Slipknot are good and Limp Bizkit have their comedy moments-Rolling is brilliant for its comedy value.

Just my little summary of the nu-metal leaders.

I think Korn's success would be mostly tapping into the youth that listened to their music, not the quality of their music.

Faget is a great song, and so is Helmet In The Bush. Both are my favorites from that album. The rest of the album ranges from good to kinda boring, but I do like it well enough. I can't really explain why, though, which I guess is why I'm not a reviewer. I guess it just reminds me of a hot day in a run down neighborhood near a dumpster. Not a very pleasant image, but I like it. If there's ever a hot day when I'm in a run down neighborhood near a dumpster, that would be the album I would listen to.

I thought it was good. I haven't listened to it enough to expand on that opinion though. I've listened to the follow ups (Life Is Peachy and Follow the Leader) a lot more.

Life Is Peachy is more creative, and tightens up the sound of the debut, but it also falls on it's face numerous times.

Follow The Leader is good enough, but the hip-hop presence can become tiresome pretty quick. The Fred Durst song is fucking stupid. But the album has a fair share of winners.

Issues is still their best, if you ask me.

It just seems to me like reviewing Korn would only really serve the point of starting an argument. Especially if it's a really negative review, which it sounds like it will be. Well, I guess flame wars can be fun, so why not.

I have the debut and don't really like it. The only other one of therirs I know is Follow the Leader, which I actually used to really dig, but haven't put it on for donkey's years.

Kind of pointless to review this album 14 years after its release. Regardless of what anyone thinks, that album is a classic. If you were still pissing your pants when it came out, you probably shouldn't review it.

Actually, Zas still does piss in his pants once in a while...

You guys may have been still in diapers at the age of nine, but I wasn't. And fifteen years after an album's release is an excellent time to look back at it! With that attitude, why review anything that's been out more than a few weeks?

Either you have something interesting to say about it or you don't.
Write your review and I'm sure you'll be able to tell if it's worth posting it or not.

But you're going to try to talk about its impact, its relevance in the history of music, and so on. I don't think a reviewer can do that unless he was there--and any nine-year-old is too stupid to get it. I'd never try to review the debut from the Beatles or Zeppelin or Sabbath. I could give them some short, generic reviews, based solely on the music, but there's no point in doing that at this point.

If you're going to review an album as influential as Korn's debut, you have to discuss its impact on the scene and the culture of music. And to do so honestly, without bias, you had to be there.

Write your review; it's not like I care. But why are you writing the review? This has been a running joke--or threat--since I reviewed here. I just don't know that there's a point.

Plus if it gets a bad score I'll throw a hissy fit.

Really? Only someone old enough to remember the time can write about an album? I certainly disagree there; having only got into Metal, what, five or six years ago now, I can't write about anything from before then? Ridiculous. Even supposing I was alive when Black Sabbath's self-titled dropped, what if I lived in a utopian farming community in Tibet? According to you, only extremely groovy media cats from the era could write about the music of the time, which is mentalist and means that nothing would ever get written about. Quick, let's find some hundred-year old men and get them to write about this Laurel & Hardy boxset!

All nu metal sucks that's my story and I'm sticking with it

NAPPIES.

Get some fucking dignity, your english. Now stick a pacifyer in it.

Yeah, but you know Ken would have been all 'wtf are nappies' and if there's one way that this forum reflects real life, it's that it makes your life a lot easier if you pander to the Americans once in a while...

No way, I always meet Americans in London,a nd because I'm a northener it seems that they can't understand waht I'm saying, hahaha. I don't give a shit.

jon davis he can do everything he is amazing on the god of emtpiness they did i can't remember when they did it
korn have great covers of good songs such as one and they did hip hop covers aswell
the first album was great it was raw and truly emotional i mean the lyrics aren't hidden with metaphors and the thing is so many school kids can relate to his lyrics
fieldy's bass is great thick and plodding through the music
the guitarists were the first to use that detuned stringed combination and the drumming is just great i mean you can go but primus were so much better but these gus simplified and made it so raw

Hey, Zad, there's your review right there.

Heh, there'll be a couple of nu-metal reviews from me this week, which will piss people off, but no Korn, alas. My Korn review so far reads 'This is Primus for retards'.