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Originally Posted by Soda Pop Fu
I used to be a big Korn fan during their rise but I dropped off after their 3rd album and haven't listened to their debut album in over a decade. I recently started listening to it again with my "matured" musical ears and was blown away. It's one of my favorite metal albums of all time now. I know some will say it is heavily flawed from a technical standpoint, but it shouldn't compared to traditional heavy metal or death metal because it is a completely different style. From a creative, expressive and stylistic standpoint, was there anything else like it? It was more melodic, expressive, rhythmic and darker than anything Pantera or Helmet did, who they are usually compared to. It was like metals version of The Scream painting by Edvard Munch. Thoughts?
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It was certainly groundbreaking in that it borrowed off a whole load of existing metal artists including the two you mentioned. It was groundbreaking in that they built on these influences rather than just copying them, the problem was though, that Korn themselves couldn't and didn't have the ability to build from the quality of their own debut album and seriously went downhill quality wise.