The Path of Totality
For their 10th album, nu-metal patriarchs Korn decided to collaborate with some of EDM’s most innovative names, resulting in a bold, thrashing foray into dubstep. The menacing, hook-heavy \"Get Up!\" is smeared with Skrillex\'s distinctive tire-screeching wobbles, while Excision applies a coat of wriggling, digital unease to the gothic rock-leaning \"My Wall.\" Dutch trio Noisia even stretch and reshape Korn\'s clanking hard rock into slinky electro on the grooving, molasses-like “Let’s Go.”
What does it mean to be Korn? Korn has asked itself that question often since 1994, when it unleashed its nü-metal-forging, self-titled debut. Over the past 17 years, the group has made numerous attempts to refresh, refocus, and/or ventilate its suffocating angst: 1999’s Issues was its first real leap into melody and…
If you’re [a]Korn[/a], you Google ‘2011 music’ and rope in a bunch of DJs for a ‘dubstep’ album, of course.
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Filled to buggery with pointless robot noises and ultrahardcore WUB WUB WUB-iness, The Path of Totality finds Korn welding their own brand of tired miserabilism to aggro productions from the likes of Skrillex, Excision and Downlink.
Hard rockers take a forceful but faltering step into electro-metal's future. CD review by Thomas H Green