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Description
LABEL: Music on Vinyl
VINYL RELEASE DATE: 2014
ORIGINAL RELEASE DATE: 1994
VARIANT: Black Vinyl LP
Limited double 180 gm vinyl LP pressing with six page insert. Import.
30 years on, Korn’s self-titled debut still sounds revolutionary. The fact remains that no one was quite ready for the bounce-driven, seven-string bombast the quintet served up on their Ross Robinson-produced first album, with its opening “Blind” redefining the way metalheads grooved for decades to come. Jonathan Davis’ pit-of-darkness lyricism and vulnerable screams remain just as visceral as they did in ‘94, while Korn’s mix of low-rider cruising grooves and dizzying riffs made it clear that a new kind of heaviness brewing up in Bakersfield — a nu-metal, if you will. Forever essential, and the blueprint for one of music’s most enduring acts.
