Korn – Coming Undone
Virgin/EMI Records – 12th June 2006
By Russell Garwood
Coming Undone is the new single from Korn’s latest full-length, See You On The Other Side. Think Queen inspired percussion (’We Will Rock You’ anyone?), crunchy, melodic guitars, and Jonathan Davis’ unmistakable vocals. Add powerful bass, and suitably angsty (and thus highly entertaining) lyrics, and what you get is a single more infectious than a mono outbreak in a brothel. It does exactly what you would expect from modern Korn – provide poppy, catchy, memorable songs with enough hooks to appease the most insatiable of pirate fetishists.
Is it metal, I hear you cry? It’s debatable. Maybe not, but it does not try to be anything it’s not. If you want accessible, enjoyable contemporary rock, look no further. If you’re after originality, innovation or instrumental prowess – let’s face it – you’re not reading this review. And if you’re here to argue that Korn should not be featured on UM, please come up with a better argument than “there not metal!!!”[sic], as we’ve already done that one to death! Bottom line – if you like Korn, you’ll like this. If you don’t, you won’t.
6/10
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Official Korn website
Virgin/EMI Records – 12th June 2006
By Russell Garwood
Coming Undone is the new single from Korn’s latest full-length, See You On The Other Side. Think Queen inspired percussion (’We Will Rock You’ anyone?), crunchy, melodic guitars, and Jonathan Davis’ unmistakable vocals. Add powerful bass, and suitably angsty (and thus highly entertaining) lyrics, and what you get is a single more infectious than a mono outbreak in a brothel. It does exactly what you would expect from modern Korn – provide poppy, catchy, memorable songs with enough hooks to appease the most insatiable of pirate fetishists.
Is it metal, I hear you cry? It’s debatable. Maybe not, but it does not try to be anything it’s not. If you want accessible, enjoyable contemporary rock, look no further. If you’re after originality, innovation or instrumental prowess – let’s face it – you’re not reading this review. And if you’re here to argue that Korn should not be featured on UM, please come up with a better argument than “there not metal!!!”[sic], as we’ve already done that one to death! Bottom line – if you like Korn, you’ll like this. If you don’t, you won’t.
6/10
UM’s Review Rating Scale
Official Korn website
I doubt they feel that way about themselves!
He left because he had a daughter, and this made him find god. He's now making a film and his debut album all about it - I covered all of it for ZT at the time.
