| Product Summary | | Label: Sony/columbia | | UPC: 00074646900123 | | Release Date: 8/18/1998 | | Buy.com Sku: 60105901 | | Item#: MHJ2FG | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 25079 | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. It's On! ~ Korn |  | | 2. Freak On A Leash ~ Korn | | | 3. Got The Life ~ Korn | | | 4. Dead Bodies Everywhere ~ Korn | | | 5. Children Of The Korn - (with Ice Cube) ~ Korn | | | 6. B.B.K. ~ Korn | | | 7. Pretty ~ Korn | | | 8. All In The Family - (with Fred Durst) ~ Korn | | | 9. Reclaim My Place ~ Korn | | | 10. Justin ~ Korn | | | 11. Seed ~ Korn | | | 12. Cameltosis - (with Tre Hardson) ~ Korn | | | 13. My Gift To You ~ Korn | |
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| | Album Notes and Credits |
Notes & Personnel Info |  | Tracks 1 through 12 are silent and are each five-seconds long. The album's track listing begins with number 13, "It's On!" | | Korn: Jonathan Davis (vocals, bagpipes); Munky, Head (guitar); Fieldy (bass); David (drums). | | Additional personnel: Ice Cube, Trevant Hardson (vocals); Justin Walden (drums, programming); Tommy D (programming). | | Producers: Steve Thompson, Toby Wright, Korn. | | Recorded at NRG Recording, North Hollywood, California. | | 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 | | Like Fear Factory and a host of others, Korn combines streamlined metal with ominous industrial touches and an undercurrent of hip-hop rhythm. FOLLOW THE LEADER is an urban nightmare, as unrelentingly dark as Onyx, Tool or Nine Inch Nails, and stylistically indebted to all three. The twin guitars of Munky and Head provide the requisite rock quotient, but throughout the album the band ventures beyond heavy rock cliches. The churning, jackhammer rhythms are leavened by subtle synthesizer work and occasionally the band falls into a bracing hip-hop beat, allowing them to show off the hard-edged syncopation that's at the core of their very visceral sound. Fostering the rap influence, Ice Cube makes a guest appearance on "Children of the Korn," and his hellbound, apocalyptic worldview sounds perfectly at home on FOLLOW THE LEADER. |
Engineer: Toby Wright |
Musical Guests | | Ice Cube | | Fred Durst | | Tre Hardson |
| | Artist Overview | | Heavy metal was in danger of losing its hold on the mainstream by the early 1990s, but Korn helped jolt the genre back to life again. Combining rage-purging, rapped/shouted vocals and explosively heavy riffs, these rap-metal pioneers spawned a slew of imitators after becoming one of the late-'90s' biggest rock bands. |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 08/18/1998 | | Original Release Date : 1998 | | Catalog ID : 69001 | | Label : Immortal | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00074646900123 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Rolling Stone (5/13/99, p.66)
- Included in Rolling Stone's "Essential Recordings of the 90's."Rolling Stone (9/3/98, pp.97-98)
- 4 Stars (out of 5)
- "...true to an older, vital hard-rock tradition of cleansing brutality and transcendent guitar choler--Blue Cheer's 1968 VINCEBUS ERUPTUM; early Metallica and very early Black Sabbath....their best album..." Spin (10/98, pp.135-136)
- 7 (out of 10)
- "...When Rage Against The Machine, the band Korn most resembles, borrow from hip-hop, it's a multicultural gesture that rocks like Everest. But Korn are, ahem, post-p.c.: They See foul-mouthed, brawling rappers as expressing Ultimate Taboos, and they feel right at home..." |
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