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Genre:
Rock
Release Date: 08/18/1998
Run Time: 69:01
More than anything,
Korn are about sound. They write songs, but those wind up not being nearly as memorable as their lurching metallic
hip-hop grind. They have yet to exhaust that sound, and that's why their third album,
Follow the Leader, is an effective follow-up to their first two
alt-metal landmarks. Not that it offers anything new -- it's the same sound, offered in a more focused forum than
Life Is Peachy, but not sounding as fresh as
Korn. In fact, it begins to wear a little thin toward the end of the album, but guitarists
Head Welch and
Munky Shaffer find enough tonal variations over the course of the album to keep it interesting, and vocalist
Jonathan Davis nearly matches them with his cavalcade of voices. If the songs themselves don't leave much of an impression, it's because they're not supposed to -- they're simply vehicles for the metallic grind, which provides all the visceral rush any
Korn fan needs.
~Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
;)
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