Korn
The Path Of Totality

The Korn defined my adolescence: I discovered them through a friend of mine who sang "Blind" in class, and we laughed at him, as an ironic version of a singer; so after buying their devastating first album, all the others followed up to the more commercial "Issue". My friend and I formed a band (he played the bass, I played the guitar); we covered Korn and Nirvana, I even wanted to buy a bagpipe to emulate Johnathan Davis. 

As teenagers, we become passionate about one or two bands or singers that stick with us until the last day of school, that’s how it was for me with Korn.

Later, I remember the anxious wait for their new album, "Untouchables", literally devoured, even though it wasn't up to the previous ones, just like the following "Take A Look In The Mirror". The passion for the band from Bakersfield was still immense; the final track of this last album was "When Will This End", a song I thought was a prophecy of an imminent end; I remember feeling this track as a sort of testament, a farewell (I often told a friend of mine who liked them as well); the Korn were indeed disbanding, what a pity; Johnathan carried on with what was left, but it was never the same again.

Later, four very modest albums came out, I grew up, I began to have a passion for various genres and musical groups, and more generally, for the alternative nature of music.

Well... I preferred to tell you how important Korn was in my adolescence, rather than review their latest work: outrageous for the ears and eyes (horrible cover), tacky (especially the DVD that accompanies it of their concert inside a crop circle) and unlistenable.

The Korn with the backwards "r" are a beautiful and powerful memory, but now this "r" is a very plain "r" like or worse than many others.