Korn
Korn

THE REVIEW

"There is a place in my mind that I love to hide"

An extinct volcano ready to explode, a concentration of anger and pain lived with gritted teeth and clenched fists, ghosts shut in the closet but never letting you sleep, a life marked in the heart and mind. The most unsettling musical debut I can remember: easy to think about, hard to explain, this eponymous Korn album is a suffocated gasp that once exploded leaves only dust and ashes.

An inhuman scream that is held back and barely controlled, from the exasperated "Are You Ready?" clenched between the teeth and painfully shouted, anger that is attempted to be kept under control throughout the twelve tracks but inevitably spills over as demonstrated in "Bell Tongue", "Divine", "Predictable", and "Lies" real punches to the stomach and face; grimaces more than songs, curses more than tracks...

... Christ Jonathan what have they done to you... calm down we're here... speak, tell us something... All in vain: nonsense, gazes into the void, restlessness, feeling cold even when it's warm, holding on desperately tightening the pants on the thighs, looking elsewhere to hide the tearful eyes exploding partially in inhuman gasps after trying to explain yourself ("Helmet In The Bush"), and when you discover there's nothing left that can help you, you then turn to prayer, in the immortal "Daddy": and nothing will be the same again... I repeat: dust and ashes...

A masterpiece without question, it gains more value knowing that behind it there is a real human drama, for me it almost has the value of a concept; the obsession with child abuse that gripped twenty years of Davis's life, the mockery suffered and real backstabs received by those around him!! "Korn" sets the rules: its explosive rap metal charge (which I love to call Crossover) and a heart-stopping rhythm section, controlled by Munky and Head's seven strings and completed by Jonathan Davis's schizophrenic attitude, here simply perfect, who will only be able to repeat himself in the following "Life Is Peachy", to then "normalize"; an album to be listened to in solitude to give oneself a conscience examination, to feel how the mind responds, analysts are not needed, dig alone into the intimacy.

When you drive the cart with a handful of tracks like "Blind", "Shoot & Ladders", "Clown", "Faget", and "Daddy" it's easy to see that the work has all the features to make history, but be careful it is a product to be used with care it can hurt and immediately cause infection, burn and once it passes it leaves little or nothing ... dust and ashes...