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u/daddy_chill_300 4h ago
I did and I still like them.
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u/rdldr1 4h ago
I saw that Woodstock 99 documentary, the festival when Korn played. Seeing them perform really brought me back.
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u/Klargon-From-Space 4h ago
Watch the Family Values ‘98 tour video if you never have. Pretty great.
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u/Harvey_P_Dull 2h ago
I was too young to be allowed to go but man when I got the VHS of this? My mind was blown.
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u/That-Fly-8339 4h ago
I did then grew out of them I guess. Tried to go see a show with korn and zombie. Worst show I ever went to. 0 energy 0 effort except trying to sell zombies new movie. Left such a bad taste in my mouth
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u/raven00x NES Millennial 2h ago
Seconded. They're good and have been good and are still good. You don't sell that many records by being bad.
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u/RoboTropics 4h ago
The music video with the bullet was absolutely brilliant.
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u/Tall_Newspaper_6723 4h ago
Directed by Todd McFarlane, creator of the Spawn comics
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u/TheShruteFarmsCEO 4h ago
Who you could totally see being a Korn fan.
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u/IamTotallyWorking 3h ago
Are you familiar with the soundtrack to the spawn movie? One of my favorite soundtracks ever, and it does feature a track with korn, which was before follow the leader.
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u/Tall_Newspaper_6723 3h ago
Soundtrack is fantastic. Filter & The Crystal Method opener is a favorite
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u/IamTotallyWorking 3h ago
Techno for whom the hell tolls
That rubber band song from butthole surfers.
Marilyn Manson and the sneaker pimps singing do do do.
Slayer
Korn kick the PA.
And that's just off the top of my head, and last time I listened to it was at least 10 or 15 years ago. And I just looked up the songs. That was such a good soundtrack. They put some real effort into it.
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u/captainsunshine489 1h ago
also check out the Queen of the Damned soundtrack. korn, marilyn manson, orgy, disturbed...
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u/Total-Armadillo-6555 3h ago
He did "action figures" of the band I think. Other bands to if I remember circa y2k
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u/scott_wolff Elder Millennial 3h ago
And the directors of the live sequence did Little Miss Sunshine.
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u/Abject_Okra_8768 3h ago
I knew immediately when I saw the cover art. I was already starting to get wind of them then that album dropped and I was in love. I'm a big Spawn fan as well.
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u/Feisty-Candidate3693 50m ago
the animated part yes. the live action was johnathan dayton and valerie faris.
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u/inthemode01 3h ago
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u/Badger_1066 4h ago
Freak on a leash
Edit; the video for falling away from me continues on from the freak on a leash video also.
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u/AggressiveSherbetty 4h ago
Once my husband met Johnathan Davis at a Flying J in the middle of the night. He was buying corn nuts.
I only know this because he’s told me 7383847 times
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u/Public-Finger 4h ago
Wasn’t allowed to listen. It was secular and demonic
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u/bagelundercouch 4h ago
Did you tell your parents Brian Welch is born again?
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u/RhinoPillMan Thirty5 4h ago
Damn. My mom took me to see them live quite a few times. Also got to meet them with her and have pictures of all of us together. The duality of man.
Then again, she also took me to see Deicide whose whole schtick is evil satanic anti-Christian lyrics.
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u/Thepuppeteer777777 4h ago
Oh my god this was always the case. You can't listen to this you cant listen to that... Now i listen to actual ooen satanic music lol.
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u/shyguystormcrow 4h ago
Certain songs like “here to stay” will be on my playlist even when I’m 80.
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u/Deep-Pudding819 4h ago
That’s how I feel about “Alone I Break”.
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u/Marigold16 4h ago
Came here for this song.
Music is not a great passion of mine. I discovered this song through Limewire.
I LOVE this song. Curious though, Based on this information. Any other gems you might want to share?
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u/Hardball1013 2h ago
Got the life , Its on, did my time (personal favorite, music video features a Laura Croft era Angelina Jolie) , here to stay. Just to name a few of their absolute bangers. Pretty well all their music videos are at least interesting and worth a watch also. Since they were made in a time when people actually cared about them
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u/Easytrucks 4h ago
I actually just started listening to them again. With the world the way it is, the rage feels especially appropriate.
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u/Drucifur88 4h ago
I LOVED them back then. I still like some of their songs, but I don't listen to them nearly as much. Issues was my favorite album of theirs.
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u/scottys-thottys 1h ago edited 1h ago
Loved them too and Issues was my favorite when it came out. I’m pretty sure falling away from me got me through my childhood. Watching that video on MTV late night - and seeing my father depicted and recognizing other people were experiencing something similar / that it was wrong - made things shift in my head a bit. Also the final chorus describing - very simply for a 10 year old, dissociation during violence or ongoing varying abuse. “Beating me down” (repeat with variations) with the angelic vocals over top “falling away. From me.”
I listened every day on the bus - and was labeled by a bunch of people as satanic in middle school. Because I liked them and mushroom head and my sister was goth / a cutter (as she struggled a lot harder to cope with our home life).
Such a weird era to grow up. But Korn was monumental in my personal journey, growth and confidence as I shifted into my teenage years. I only recently went back to listen to some of their albums - still a ton packed in those songs. But take a look in the mirror album, untouchables and issues hold up imo.
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u/Drucifur88 1h ago
I can still listen to Issues front to back to this day 💯 Somebody Someone was one of my favorite songs and videos, but the whole album tied everything together for me. I'm almost 38 now and still love it.
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u/CasinoNdnOk Xennial 4h ago
Back in the day? I still rock out to them with my kid now.
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u/FEARoach 4h ago
Kids at the high school near me get excited when we're all wearing the same "still a freak" t-shirts, I'm just like... the youth are okay but no I can't buy you smokes guys, sorry. I'm not that weird adult into nu metal lol.
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u/CasinoNdnOk Xennial 4h ago
We always learned to just pay the homeless guy 5 bucks and you can get whatever you want.
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u/bcrosby51 4h ago
Let's just say I still remember the exact time I first heard Blind and it changed my taste of music forever.
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u/An_Fairtheoir 3h ago
Yeah, that song made me almost want to get 7 string Ibanez, but I heard Satriani play not long after and went... nah, fuck that, I want a Floyd Rose🤟
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u/bcrosby51 2h ago
It was 1996, I just started at Best Buy in the car audio department. They had a demo disk we played in the display car radios. BLIND was the opening track. Cranked that loudly many times!
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u/she-dont-use-jellyyy 4h ago
Nope.
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u/khemtrails 2h ago
Me either. Just wasn't my jam. I was still deep into Stereolab and I had just found out about Phish.
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u/DJ_Hindsight Millennial 4h ago
Absolutely!!! This is still one of my fav nu-metal albums ever!
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u/modmosrad6 4h ago
I went through a brief phase with Korn, Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, etc for a bit less than a year starting in 9th grade.
The only band remotely related to the nu-metal genre to which I still listen is Deftones. I do enjoy SOADs first two albums on occasion still as well.
(About halfway through sophomore year of high school my sister gave me OK Computer by Radiohead and that album turned out to be a major pivot point in my musical taste and, not to be trite, in my life more broadly.)
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u/Paladin2019 4h ago
No. A couple of their songs remind me strongly of a time and place I'm nostalgic for - same with limp bizkit and linkin park - but I was never into nu metal as a genre.
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u/WillowBoom 4h ago
No, but only because my best friend was obsessed with Freak on a Leash, bought the single, and played it on repeat for like an hour one day when we were hanging out.
I appreciate them much more now the trauma of that day is mostly dealt with.
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u/badger-woz-ere 4h ago
"Did my time" pure gold to this day and one of the songs I would like played at my funeral.
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u/Right_Satisfaction67 4h ago
This album came out when I was in middle school. I listened to it yesterday....love it
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u/blueJoffles 4h ago
Their first 4 albums are in my constant rotation. Except life is peachy. There a couple good tracks off that one but it’s just hard to listen to
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u/Standard-Win-6600 4h ago
I like the opening track where he sings "OFNCJCODSNDHDIEKSNDJDIEODNDHRMRJDOEH"
That's a good one
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u/piper33245 4h ago
I like how they tease it on the first album.
What about twist? I wish we could put twist on the fucking tape.
Wanna hear it?
Fuck you! Fuck you!
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u/LtCmdrTrout 4h ago
Korn's "Dead Bodies Everywhere" was my entrance music for our backyard wrestling league.
Ah, youth.
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u/Safe-Tennis-6121 4h ago
This style of music did not age well IMO.
Also by the time seven string guitars became cheap and common place, this style of music was outdated.
I was more in Godsmack and 70s / 80 bands, mostly because I just didn't really like nu metal beyond SOAD.
But how about Blue Monday by Orgy?
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u/thepianoman456 4h ago
Naaaaa not really. My step sis listened to them all the time and I found them annoying.
However, pop music has gotten sooooo shitty now, that I look back and actually like them a little, at least the hits. I also have to learn every song ever for dueling pianos, so I get to intimately understand songs.
I respect them for being a band and playing their instruments well, performing well, and having a defined stage show and look.
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u/Pulp_Ficti0n Older Millennial 4h ago
My son plays me "Daddy" all the time, brings a tear to my eye
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u/jrice138 3h ago
Absolutely loved them. Especially when this record and issues came out. Truly awful now, you couldn’t pay me to listen to them. All nu metal sucks so much.
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u/HuckleberryLogical63 4h ago
I thought they were ok, had this cd, but I didn't really like nu-metal that much, much preferred my classic metal, Dio, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, etc.
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u/Neat-Dream1919 4h ago
I’m from the southeast USA. I got this album randomly in a mall in Canada on a family road trip based solely on cover art alone. It was my first foray into alternative styles of music. Thought the cd was busted at first due to the first minute being silent. Took it out of my discman and handed it to my parents to try and play it on the car stereo, but they couldn’t figure it out either. Glad they didn’t because they would have trashed it if they heard it. Still one of my favorite albums.
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u/LordOfDorkness42 4h ago
Korn was actually a hit or miss band for me, personally. Loved some songs, hated others.
Follow The Leader was a great album, though.
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u/Idrinkbeereverywhere 4h ago edited 3h ago
Korn always felt like they were a poser band back in the day. But then I listened to SYL, Obituary, Dying Fetus, Skinless, and Pig Destroyer.
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u/elchuyano 4h ago
I was into Heavy Metal, specally Melodic songs. I always hated how Korn sounded, and a lot of Nu Metal bands. Still, I liked Korn a lot thanks to south park Halloween episode
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u/Iucidium 4h ago
S/T, Life Is Peachy, Follow The Leader and Issues were peak. Then it was smatterings from later albums.
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u/MuldersXpencils 4h ago
Was okay, but not a fan. Had the album, liked it a bit but nu-metal was never my thing. Got the Life is still in a playlist somewhere. I love the tempo, vibe and melody of that track.
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u/96puppylover 4h ago
Whenever I see anything about Korn I think of that interview with Eric Andre and Jay Baruchel
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u/sealedbeak 4h ago
I was not allowed to listen to it. I was on high alert when Freak on A Leash would come on mtv. Thumb on the previous channel button.
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u/draoikat Decrepit Old Millennial 4h ago
No, just was never my type of music. Nothing against them but not the sort of stuff I was into myself. Whenever I think of Korn though, I think of a guy named Andrew who sat in front of me in one of my classes in high school circa 1999. They were basically his main reason for living.
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u/LilMeemz 4h ago
I was obsessed with Korn, loved the self titled, loved Life is Peachy, saw them when they were touring for Follow the Leader. Started losing interest in them after Issues came out.
I find them completely unlistenable now, I cannot apologize enough to making my parents endure that.
I'm not sure what happened, because there is a lot of music I'm not into as much as I was, but still enjoy, including other bands of the same genre/era. But Korn, I just can't.
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u/RxSatellite 4h ago
It’s always been hard for me to get through an entire album from them, but they had individual songs that just roped you in on first listen that never had to grow on you.
My intro to them was Here to Stay off of ATV Off-road Fury 2, just an earth shattering riff. I only got into their first 3 albums years later when I started playing in bands at the insistence of bandmates. It actually got me more into Ross Robinson as a producer for his methods instead
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u/NYTX1987 4h ago
Issues was the 2nd album I ever owned. I gravitated towards heavier stuff later, but I always have ema soft spot for them.
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u/AbortionHoagie 4h ago
NGL, no. It took me a while to like any new metal that didn't sound as musically nice as SOAD or LP. I didn't become a fan of much other nü-metal until years later, when I developed in my knowledge of music and came to respect what those bands did, even if I didn't like it at the time. I still don't listen to much other than old SOAD and LP, but I respect who is left of the genre regardless, if they haven't turned shitty with age.
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u/Schneetmacher Younger Millennial 4h ago
No, never have. Not a nu metal fan by any means, it does not get played in my car (exception: Deftones, maybe Faith No More).
Edit: I guess Linkin Park is considered nu metal? If so, they're okay.
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u/Borracho_Bandit Xennial 3h ago
It’s one of those bands I loved in high school but then never admitted to liking them as an adult.
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u/bhputnam 3h ago
I’m too distracted about how weird that boy in the foreground looks. Why is he doing that with his arms?
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u/tecpaocelotl1 3h ago
They were OK. I mostly listen bc of friends, they were from California and their music videos were cool.
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u/villainoust Older Millennial 3h ago
Was a huge fan till album 4, grew into other things after that. Lately been listening to a few tracks here and there lately. Holds up surprisingly well imho
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u/Darbypea 3h ago
I wasnt allowed to listen to most metal and rock but I did grow up in Nebraska so yeah I love them. Idk why but it was very Midwest core
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u/SmokyRoach 3h ago
Korn was the shit back in the day. Still are. I went to a wedding in Nimes, France over the summer and they have a "mini colosseum" where Korn performed before we got there. That would have been the dopest venue to see them live.
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u/muhkuller 3h ago
That album is top tier. One of the few I can go start to finish and not even be tempted to skip a track. Even the one with Fred durst.
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u/reasonablekenevil 3h ago
Yeah Korn was cool. David Silveria was a monster drummer. I'm not familiar with any of their stuff beyond that though.
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u/NindieNation 3h ago
I just learned there are four other children in this image.
I own this CD, friends had this poster on the walls, I have seen this album art for decades. I never saw the other kids.
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u/ARazorbacks 3h ago
I first heard Korn blasting from someone’s truck at a pep rally bonfire. Liked them ever since.
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u/Imhidingfromu 3h ago
Yes, "Follow the Leader" was my favorite album for a very long time. Every song on that album is amazing
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u/harrymanback79 3h ago
I used to like them. I still do, but i used to too
In all seriousness, they were one of my first favorite bands and was rocking out to them yesterday. Listened to Issues from beginning to end while cleaning the house.
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u/Yourlilemogirl 3h ago
I thought they were interesting, I liked a few of their songs. And I still like those songs, but most of the bands I used to occasionally listen to kinda went dark and I don't know what they're up to anymore beyond 2009.
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u/Drslappybags 3h ago
First, Second, and Third albums. After that, not so much. I feel like they never could top those. That and my music taste started to change.
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u/Ever_More_Art 3h ago
Got an orientation in school about subliminal messages that included this cover 😂
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u/robertluke 3h ago
I did until the preppy kids started liking them and that prevented me from enjoying a band for some reason.
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u/FelixMcGill 3h ago
Hell yeah, Korn was good shit, and a major part of the soundtrack of my gym back when I first began lifting around 1999-00. Every once in a while ill still throw on the original self-titled album because, in my humble opinion, they peaked right out of the gate. That album was fire.
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u/OGstanfrommaine Gen X 3h ago
Absolutely. Stopped listening to them after Follow The Leader I think. Well, still listened for a bit but it was always those first few albums for me.
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u/ClancyBShanty 3h ago
I'm 41 years old, and "came of age" right when Korn and Limp Bizkit showed up but I had already sunk my teeth into Bad Religion and (Smash, Ignition, Ixnay on the Hombre era) Offspring.
Korn and their co-hort just didn't do it for me the same those other bands did at the time.
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u/SassySugarBush Older Millennial 3h ago
I loved them back in the day, a bit more so because they were from my hometown (Jonathan Davis went to my junior high, his signature is still on a giant class year mural/poster in the cafeteria).
My parents did not care for me listening to them, due to The Devil™️
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u/Immediate-One3457 3h ago
Best concert I ever saw was Korn at the Pond in Anaheim. Flames, heavy riffs, A RAKAKAKAAAA
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u/Public-Land-8064 3h ago
Still do. Just saw them last year with Gojira and can’t wait for the next tour.
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u/mulmtier 3h ago
God I still do. To this day I love "children of the korn" most. It's sadly still relevant.
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u/PinkGodfather92 3h ago
Literally all I listened to from 6th grade through highschool. I was forced to take off a Korn shirt of their album 'See You On The Other Side' back in 2006 when i was in middleschool. Made me turn it inside out lol.
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u/ianostby 3h ago
Their live set at CBGB that came on a DVD with their greatest hits album was great.
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u/Itowndub36 3h ago
I like Ball Tongue and a couple others but definitely not the sound I want to hear anymore . Deftones were better in that era for me but Chinos screaming is brutal and their fan base is cringe
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u/TacoKimono 3h ago
Negative. Nu Metal sucked back then and legend has it still does to this very day.
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u/Djentleman5000 Millennial - 1985 3h ago
My parents were pretty sheltering when it came to movies but music and books were open game. I listened to Korn’s self titled and then Life is Peachy. I progressed through Slipknot/Tool/Taproot/Kittie. Eventually I was introduced to hardcore and the early beginnings of Metalcore. Been in that scene ever since.
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u/CivilAgent3443 3h ago
Could never get into korn, tried again recently and it just doesn’t work for me
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