Korn - Follow the Leader
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Artist: KornEdition: Music CD
Format: Explicit Lyrics
CD Release Date: 1998-08-18
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- It's On
- Freak on a Leash
- Got the Life
- Dead Bodies Everywhere
- Children Of The Korn (with Ice Cube)
- B.B.K.
- Pretty
- All in the Family (with Fred Durst)
- Reclaim my Place
- Justin
- Seed
- Cameltosis (with Tre Hardson)
- My Gift to You
- Justin
- Seed
- Cameltosis
- My Gift to You
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Free Music Review: They lost me there...
Hit: 2 Stars
I remember back when I was a freshman in high school and the first Korn album came out. It was well ahead of the trends coming out at the time and were at the forefront of a new breed of blue-collar metal. Life as Peachy came out not too far afterward and while it didn't get the commercial or critical success of the first album, it was relatively-well conceived and still provided the high level of cathartic expression that was established in their first album.
This album came out to much fanfare and included various meet-and-greets the band conducted in certain markets to "keep it real." It was cool and even hearing the first track, "It's On", I was like "Yeah! KoRn is back and in full effect!"...
... but then I heard the rest of the album and was sorely disappointed. After a few plays, it went stagnant into my CD case and never really ended up back in my regular rotation.
At the end of the day, KoRn changed. Whether it be as a result of the band having new producers, the band featuring rap guests as opposed to metal ones, the group dealing with their newfound success, or the group's well-documented substance abuses during this period of time; the album showed the bands growth into a different direction than what they were doing at the time. That's fine for artists and I commend them as long as they were happy for it. Yet at the end of the day, it grew in a direction opposite from where I was headed in life and within a few months of the release of this CD, I quit considering myself a KoRn fan.
The album sounds somewhat dated at this point, but it's still good for a few spins if you're an emerging KoRn fan, a rap-metal fan, or interested in hearing one of the progenitors (not the many countless imitators) of the whole "baggy-pants, five-string bass" era of metal that was nu-metal.
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First 12 tracks are blank...music begins on track 13.Love 'em or despise 'em, you've got to give Korn props for kick-starting a new metal movement that blends aggressive hip-hop rhythms with roaring hate-metal riffs. In the wake of the band's 1994 debut, many like-minded groups cropped up, including Deftones, Snot, and Limp Bizkit. But with the release of Korn's disappointing 1996 sophomore effort, Life Is Peachy, the imitators seemed likely to usurp the innovators. Maybe that's why Follow the Leader is so crafty and inspired. Instead of continuing on cruise control, Korn have diversified their formula, experimenting with mood and dynamics while intensifying their melody and noise thresholds. "Got the Life" blends a seductive disco beat and vocals reminiscent of "Epic"-era Faith No More with oppressive guitar chimes and squawks. "Children of the Korn" features a propulsive rap beat, throbbing bass lines, and angry guest vocals by Ice Cube. But just when Korn's groovin' psychedelic fury starts to make listeners see red, the band lashes out with "All in the Family," a hilarious rap-metal diss-fest duet with Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst, that proves Korn are much more than the sum of their rage. --Jon Wiederhorn
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