Korn
Life Is Peachy

After their first album, the masterpiece "Korn" (1994), the band from Bakersfield is back with "Life Is Peachy" (1996). The first impression of the album is that it is fresher and more direct than the first, and perhaps even dirtier and rougher (in a positive way, of course...): TWIST is represented by 51 seconds of surreal, frenetic, schizophrenic, nonsensical verses.
The fast and targeted guitar riffs "assault" the listener's senses: this can be understood from tracks like CHI, GOOD GOD, MR. ROGERS, NO PLACE TO HIDE. Also within the album are two covers: WICKED by the rapper Ice Cube (sung together with Deftones' lead singer Chino Moreno) and LOWRIDER by War (whose voice is none other than the former guitarist of the Californian band, Brian "Head" Welch...). As the icing on the cake comes KILL YOU, a song dedicated (so to speak...) to the singer Jonathan Davis's stepmother; the track can be considered the second part of DADDY ("Korn"), as here too Davis's voice is filled with suffering.

Good work from all the members of Korn: excellent guitar riffs from Munky and Head, phenomenal bass by Fieldy, great work by drummer David, and Jonathan's voice is wonderful.
To conclude, the sound of "Life Is Peachy" does not deviate from that of the previous album: this can be understood from Jonathan's voice, with its sudden surges and tempo changes, which convey to us through music what Jonathan's adolescence was like, i.e., the despair and suffering of an adolescence marked by dependencies and abuses (consider that Jonathan and his father did nothing but talk about sex, and his stepmother wanted him dead...). An album undoubtedly wicked, but very intelligent.