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80
‘Untouchables’ is a record that grows spikes with each listen and is by turns exhilarating, confusing, inspiring, embarrassing and astonishing.
13y
80
Their darkest, most impenetrable record yet--the aural approximation of staring down a mine shaft at midnight.
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2y
80
The riffs are cleaner and catchier than on previous records.
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3y
70
By cutting away some of the fat and finding new ways to deliver their trademark roar, Korn manage to offer a strong and lean album that maintains their place as innovators in a genre with few leaders.
13y
60
With his background in both trailblazing funk and hard art-rock, producer Michael Beinhorn helps Korn's vicious rhythm section pound harder while expanding the band's higher frequencies with electronics and symphonics, even as its famously down-tuned guitars buzz away.
11y
50
Nothing here explains the reported $4.5 million budget, not even the vocal harmonizer on ”Beat It Upright” or digitized Blue Man Group-esque beats on ”Alone I Break.”
10y
Here To Stay fucks so hard
Easily one of my favorite Korn albums. You can tell there has been a lot of effort put into this one. The highlights are fantastic, with crunchy riffs, amazing writing and vocals from JD, and fantastic production. This album's only flaw is that it's a little bloated. There are a few songs like "Beat It Upright" that really didn't have to be on the tracklist, at all.
But still, despite being a little long, I love how it's just banger ... read more
The biggest Korn album in sound, scope, and budget. It's not hard to see why this one is Jon's favorite Korn album, his vocals are at their best here and it's lyrically strong as well for the most part. There's always at least a couple exceptions to that rule on each Korn record, Beat It Upright being the best example. Horrible lyrics, but backed by some incredible grooves. The riffs are massive, Here To Stay hits like a truck and the album hardly ever slows down, but when ... read more
KOЯN | CHAPTER FIVE
It seems like there’s a common theme here. Every time they switch producers they have a new sound. Maybe it’s the producer pushing them, or it’s the band wanting to try new things, but either way I really enjoy this album. It’s just the band testing out a newer sound, showing that they haven’t run dry of ideas yet. I must say too, this record might be a little less or just as experimental as Issues was, because here they go for a more ... read more
Korn seems to be riding on the coattails of Slipknot with this record. Songs like Thoughtless seem to be a more raw version of Left Behind and Beat it Upright is a failed attempt at a replication of People=Shit.
The main thing I don't like about korn after the first album is that the lyrics feel so vague. The first album feels so deeply personal but everything after that, with some major exceptions, just feels like typical "you'll never understand my twisted mind" nu metal lyrics.
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Track List
| 1 | Here to Stay 4:30 | 93 |
| 2 | Make Believe 4:37 | 68 |
| 3 | Blame 3:50 | 81 |
| 4 | Hollow Life 4:09 | 78 |
| 5 | Bottled Up Inside 4:00 | 77 |
| 6 | Thoughtless 4:32 | 85 |
| 7 | Hating 5:10 | 75 |
| 8 | One More Time 4:39 | 75 |
| 9 | Alone I Break 4:16 | 80 |
| 10 | Embrace 4:27 | 74 |
| 11 | Beat It Upright 4:15 | 58 |
| 12 | Wake Up Hate 3:12 | 68 |
| 13 | I'm Hiding 3:57 | 69 |
| 14 | No One's There 9:24 | 82 |
Total Length: 1 hour, 5 minutes
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4mo
everyone downvoting darkwave secondary genre is blatantly ignoring the colossal amount of goth and new wave influenced spacey synth work, watery guitar tones and textural atmosphere on this that jonathan very intentionally said he put in to incorporate his childhood love for stuff like the cure, duran duran etc. and fuse that with korn's sound up til this point
1y
One of the best albums ever made, however the OG leaked version has some extended parts that make the album better.