KoRn
Take A Look In The Mirror

THE REVIEW

Sixth chapter of Bakersfield's five.

Released about a year and a half after Untouchables, the album in my opinion most "linear" of their discography, this one, according to "what was being said around", was supposed to be a return to a more "Crossover" sound.

In my opinion, this return did not happen, and for a lover of the first three works ("Life Is Peachy" above all) it's not a good thing.

The album opens with "Right Now", a single downloadable for a month from their official website, which personally had given me hope: dry and monolithic guitar riffs, interspersed with Dog's decisive and never out of place slaps, Davis' dry singing without "ostentatious chanting", with their typical break (which I never tire of) à la "Faget"("shut up I fuck you up") and a headbanging finale.

As Huber would say: "So far so good"

"Break Some Off" opens with a rush that tastes like Pantera, then flows into the "chants" mentioned above that, not interspersed with some other metric, tire me out, chorus in dry growl: nothing special.
"Counting On me" feels a bit "more koRn", both for the beginning with arpeggio, and for the longer riff, and for the bass interludes, but Wally Balljacker is still absent, depriving us of the mini-solo sounds, singing identical to the previous one.
"Here It Comes Again" lifts the average a bit, same merits as the previous one, always in "chant" but with a vocal melody I prefer, but still no "clear" trace of Wally yet.
"Deep Inside", Davis behaves much better, but musically flat or already heard, at least they made it last 2:46 minutes.
"Did My Time", already around this summer on the soundtrack of "Cradle Of Life": nice, varied, with the last 100 seconds really beautiful, worthy of the old times.
With "Every Thing I Know", which seems more like a song from "Untouchables" than from a new album, we return to mediocrity.
I was waiting for "Play Me" hoping NastyNas would revolutionize everything a bit, but the linearity doesn't tend to decrease, on the contrary.
"Alive", "Let's Do This Now", "I'm Done"?...typical koRn songs, nothing more, heard and re-heard.
When "Y'All Want A Single" starts, the good old fans think: "here they are!" fantastic interlude, then the song ends and you realize that the interlude was the song, deciding for a "cute".
Conclusion with "When Will This End", in tune with the simplicity of the whole album; if you let it finish, a live starts, and it may happen that "nice one" pops into your head, followed by "thanks to the f....!", it's "One" by 'tallica....

If "the important thing is not the fall but the landing", this review/sports commentary is the only worthy thing about this record, as every time I "land" after listening to it, nothing remains; in short, no action for the replay.

Votes one by one: Davis score 5/10, James The Gorilla (but what was wrong with Munky?) & Head score 6/10, Dog (and Fieldy?) score 7/10, but can get a 10 if he wants, Balljacker (David?) doesn't even grace us with half a solo burst, score 4/10.

Album, fan score: 1/5, score from someone who has never heard of koRn: 3/5, but since at their 6th album it was reasonable to ask for a bit more, here's my score, and to detoxify I'll blast "Ass Itch", "Divine" and "Seed".