{"id":145663,"date":"2025-10-26T04:26:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T04:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/145663\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T04:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T04:26:08","slug":"korn-korn-album-review-pitchfork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/145663\/","title":{"rendered":"Korn: Korn Album Review | Pitchfork"},"content":{"rendered":"

The rest of Korn had his back. That quiet moment during \u201cFake\u201d is a rare bit of respite amid these 12 tracks. They are, for the most part, like the militia at his side and rear, ready to defend Davis as he lambastes the people who have hurt and harassed him. That ability owes, at least in part, to the band\u2019s idiosyncratic setup.<\/p>\n

In the early \u201990s, Munky had fallen for the strange sounds of Steve Vai\u2019s athletic guitar, always moving like an elite gymnast who had unlocked an extra limb. When he learned that Vai was playing a seven-string Ibanez<\/a>, he not only got one for himself but also convinced his bandmate Head to try one, too. The tandem tweaked the instruments, adjusting the strings and springs so that the sound was deeper and thicker, covering bits of the spectrum a bass would ordinarily manage. That allowed the band\u2019s actual bassist, Fieldy, to approach his instrument differently, channeling an early love of funk-rock into distinct lead lines. With five strings instead of four, Fieldy could slide upward into some space normally reserved for guitars, adding licks and even taking stunted solos in the room abdicated by Head and Munky. All these tonal shifts meant the bass wasn\u2019t always tied to the drums, too, so that Silveria could move more freely. He responded to the rest of the band in real time, his hits sometimes landing, crucially, like Davis\u2019 fists.<\/p>\n

To wit, on \u201cBall Tongue,\u201d a break-up song with an old friend, Davis recounts all the ways he\u2019s been disappointed until he just runs out of words. He repeatedly hurls himself into inscrutable scat outbursts, his annoyance beyond ordinary expression. (He was, mind you, also freaking out on meth in his dad\u2019s studio during this take.) Especially at the start, Silveria\u2019s drums are enormous, each hit lasting longer than it needs. Head and Munky\u2019s guitars sound like sirens or a mind spinning out, while Fieldy seems to be slapping at Silveria\u2019s every beat, a mountain lion pawing at a house cat\u2019s toy. It is intentionally mean, the four old friends telling their new pal\u2019s old friend to fuck off forever. And during \u201cHelmet in the Bush,\u201d a song about trying to overcome an addiction that is breaking Davis\u2019 body, they become his backbone, forever trying to pull him back toward the center as he spirals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The rest of Korn had his back. That quiet moment during \u201cFake\u201d is a rare bit of respite…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[18,117,19,17,337,85953],"class_list":{"0":"post-145663","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-music","13":"tag-sunday-review"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115438576282018327","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}