During the chatter, David Silveria says 'I wish we could put 'Twist' on the fucking tape', referring to a song that wouldn't be released until their next album, Life Is Peachy. 'Clown' starts with about a minute of the band goofing around in the studio before starting the song.This vocal style has been mimicked numerous times by later nu metal bands, though none could do it in the same way that Jonathan could. Soprano and Gravel: Jonathan does a one-man variation of this with vocals that are almost whispered, as if expressing his own thoughts, before going into full-on screams.The whole album introduced this, which some later bands made into an art form. In fact, it's hard to tell when it's this or just Indecipherable Lyrics. Singing Simlish: 'Ball Tongue' at the end, though the whole song sounds like this.While much of the rhythm in the songs in heavily influenced by hip-hop and funk rock, there are no rapped vocals, unlike future examples of music like this. Rape as Drama: 'Daddy', which was about how Jonathan was molested by his (female) babysitter as a child, but nobody in his family believed him.Given the use of the conceptual themes, experimentation with different sounds seemingly at random, and Epic Rocking. Progressive Metal: A strong influence, believe it or not.Politically Incorrect Villain: 'Faget' is about Jonathan Davis' experience being bullied in school and being called homophobic insults for being into arts and crafts, new wave music, and wearing eyeliner.

Perishing Alt-Rock Voice: Jonathan does this constantly.One-Word Title: 'Blind', 'Clown', 'Divine', 'Faget', 'Fake', 'Daddy', and the album itself.Nu Metal: Credited as the first recorded example of the genre, for better or worse.It was so popular, in fact, that it eventually became commodified into a genre. Neoclassical Punk Zydeco Rockabilly: An Alternative Metal album with elements of Funk Metal, Grunge, Groove Metal, Hip-Hop, Hardcore, and Progressive Metal.Indecipherable Lyrics: Some songs, such as 'Ball Tongue', border on Singing Simlish for being so hard to understand.Incoming Ham: The very first vocals on the album.'Fake' and 'Lies' feature borderline death growling. Harsh Vocals: Jonathan alternates between this and melodic, whisper like vocals.Genre-Busting: At the time, most people weren't sure what to call it.Funk Metal: A strong influence, especially noticeable in songs like 'Blind'.Everything's Louder with Bagpipes: 'Shoots and Ladders' opens with Jonathan playing the bagpipes.'Faget' and 'Shoots and Ladders' are both over five minutes long. Epic Rocking: 'Daddy' is fourteen minutes long counting the hidden track, and nine minutes not counting it.Double Standard: Rape, Female on Male: Ruthlessly deconstructed and defied in 'Daddy', being based on Davis's childhood experience of being raped by his female babysitter and the ensuing emotional trauma it caused.Doom Metal: One of the many styles the album borrows from, with low tuning, slow-to-mid-pace tempos, dissonance, angsty lyrics and Epic Rocking.Dark and Troubled Past: The songs pertain to Jonathan's childhood experiences in the past with being abused and bullied in school.Creepy Children Singing: Jonathan emulates this on 'Shoots and Ladders,' which is all about how children's nursery rhymes are actually about horrible, nightmarish things ('Ring Around The Rosies' being about the Black Plague, 'London Bridge' being about a terrible fire).In retrospect, the album has routinely been deemed one of the greatest and most influential metal albums of its time, with Rolling Stone calling it 'the most important metal record of the last 20 years' in 2014. Though it spawned arguably the most polarizing metal genre since Hair Metal, it's also credited for helping to revive metal as a whole, which ( Metallica, Alice in Chains and Pantera notwithstanding) was largely driven to underground purgatory after the fall of glam metal.

While only peaking at #72 nearly two years after release on the Billboard 200, Korn ultimately sold four million copies in the United States alone, and over ten million copies worldwide. The result was a sound that couldn't be described but which caught on in popularity immediately and, for better or worse, laid out the blueprints for the controversial genre of Nu Metal, which would take the world by storm at the end of The '90s. The album's music was a groundbreaking take on Alternative Metal, eschewing genre mainstays like guitar solos in favor of heavily downtuned guitars and funk-influenced bass, with angsty lyrics about child abuse, drug abuse, and bullying. It was recorded over a month-long period in Malibu, California and produced by Ross Robinson.

Korn is the self-titled debut album by Korn, released on October 11, 1994.

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