KORN

The Path of Totality
Roadrunner Records

Metal and dubstep. It just fits together, you know? Like pop and rock, or blues and roots. I don’t know why we didn’t think of it before. For those of you who have been under a rock for the past few months, nu-metal rockers Korn have gone all lost and confused in their old age and released a dubstep-metal album called The Path Of Totality. And man, it’s a doozy.

First track Chaos Lives In Everything, featuring dubstep king Skrillex, is evidently directed at someone the band doesn’t like very much, with frontman Jonathan Davis wailing: “Gonna rape you/Fuck you bitch frown”.

Tracks like Burn The Obedient and Kill Mercy Within prove that no matter how good you are with technology, metal and dub should never ever mix – they are disjointed and awkward, and for some reason death growls just don’t have the same effect on top of robotic beats. At many points throughout the album the two genres are constantly doing battle; guitars drowning out electronica and vice versa.

Final track Bleeding Out just sums up the utter embarrassing mess that is The Path Of Totality, with so many sounds spewed out that it hurts to make it through the entire song.

This is a clumsy, overbearing headache of an album, with nothing of real merit. Be nice to your ears and don’t even give this one a listen.

_CHLOE PAPAS

xpressradio by X-Press Magazine

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