Follow The Leader

Korn made an enormous impact with this 1998 opus: On hits like “Freak On a Leash,” they practically turned nu-metal into a household name as frontman Jonathan Davis comforted the alienated with his feral vocal tics over downtuned guitars and hip-hop-style grooves. The band’s frenzied versatility shows through in slow-burner “Justin,” with Head and Munky extracting crunches and squeals from their guitars, while Ice Cube’s appearance on “Children of the Korn” lends street cred to the band’s freakiest rap-rock urges.

In Follow the Leader, vocalist Jonathan Davis, bassist Reggie “Fieldy” Arvizu, guitarists James “Munky” Shaffer and Brian “Head” Welch, and drummer David Silveria have made an ideal record for those long, black days when all you can do is stand up and scream, “What the fuck! What the fuck! What the fuck!” at bloody-murder volume.

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