KORN Self Titled CD 1994 (2017)

In 1994, five guys from Bakersfield, California handed nu-metal its birth certificate and terrified an entire generation of suburban parents in the process. Thirty-odd years later, that debut still sounds like it was recorded in a place with no windows and no exits.

Korn's self-titled record didn't just launch a genre, it gave a specific kind of alienated, angry kid a home. Jonathan Davis's stream-of-consciousness howl on Daddy, the locked-in low-tuned groove of Blind, the way Fieldy's bass sounds like a broken elevator, none of it has aged out of relevance. This is the album that connected metal, hip-hop and pure psychological dread before anyone had a name for what that combination was. If you're filling out a dark aesthetic vinyl or CD collection, or you just need the original in a format that plays, this 2017 reissue does exactly what it needs to.

Artist: Korn. Format: CD, full length album, reissue. Original release: 1994. This pressing: 2017. Origin: USA. Genre: Nu-Metal. Tracklist: 1. Blind, 2. Ball Tongue, 3. Need To, 4. Clown, 5. Divine, 6. Faget, 7. Shoots and Ladders, 8. Daddy.

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