Ten years of career, 6 albums released with millions of copies sold worldwide, soundtracks, Grammy awards, various collaborations and friendships, grueling tours, divorces, and marriages often brought to the front page despite musical chronicles. In summary, these are Korn, and after so much distance traveled, it's time to summarize. All of this happens simultaneously with the definitive break with Epic; it seems that from the next album onward, the five will self-produce, as they partly did with their latest studio album.

19 selected tracks, the best of their production, and a journey backward that begins with 2 covers, then moves on to tracks from Take A Look In The Mirror, Untouchables, and up to the self-titled debut. An excellent path, an outstanding route, a well-defined style of their own. Regarding their own produced tracks, I find nothing to say; there is all the best of Korn's career: from "Blind" to "Falling Away for Me," from "ADIDAS" to "Freak on a Leash," from "Shoot & Ladders" to "Did My Time".
A bit more to say about the choice of unreleased tracks, curiously chosen in the form of covers... somewhat questionable covers.
"Word Up!" is a track by Cameo that many might already know, it is also the first single chosen by Korn to promote the Greatest Hits and from which a more than ridiculous video was made. The cover itself is structured identically to the original. No personality. Fierce criticism then targets the second cover (and second single) present, the choice couldn't have been more obvious than "Another Brick In The Wall" by Pink Floyd, performed like a carbon copy except for the staccato main riff and Jonathan Davis's vocal tone. Little or nothing, in short.

The first official collection closes with the remix of "Freak On A Leash" by Dante Ross, which can be easily overlooked. Sad in anticipation of a future definite album of covers practically already ready.
All things considered, the remaining 16 tracks do not disappoint anyone; for those unfamiliar with Korn, it could easily be a godsend, for those who do know them, an unreleased or at least a more original or personalized cover certainly wouldn't have hurt.
We await them at the next studio trial where, in my opinion, they haven't disappointed yet!!!

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