Korn — Korn [2× Vinyl LP · 180g]

Korn — Korn [2× Vinyl LP · 180g · Music On Vinyl]

Details

• Format: Vinyl 2xLP, Album Reissue, 180g
• Catalogue Number: MOVLP1157
• Barcode: 8718469536375
• Genre: Nu Metal / Alternative Metal
• Label: Epic / Immortal / Music On Vinyl
• Originally Released: 11 October 1994
• This Edition Released: 4 August 2014
• Pressing: 180g audiophile 2×LP reissue on Music On Vinyl, pressed at Record Industry in the Netherlands
• Condition: New & Sealed

Description

Korn's 1994 self-titled debut is the record on which the band walked into the studio as a Bakersfield five-piece with a bassist playing a five-string Ibanez in drop tuning and walked out having invented nu-metal. Produced by Ross Robinson at Indigo Ranch Studios in Malibu, the album fused downtuned seven-string guitars, slap-heavy bass, Jonathan Davis's unguarded vocal delivery — alternately a whisper, a scream and a full-throated bagpipe on Shoots And Ladders — and confessional lyrics that went places metal had largely kept out of.

From the opening Blind — built on James "Munky" Shaffer and Brian "Head" Welch's interlocking tritone guitars and Davis's famous "Are you ready?" — through Ball Tongue, Need To, Clown, the abuse-survivor devastation of Daddy, and the already-cited Shoots And Ladders, the record set a template that the next decade of heavy music would borrow from relentlessly. It went double platinum in the US without a radio hit. The final side closes with Michael And Geri — an unlisted tape of an overheard argument that Robinson stitched on to the end of Daddy; the record's final, uncomfortable punctuation.

This Music On Vinyl 180g 2×LP reissue gives the album the audiophile cut it deserves, pressed at Record Industry in the Netherlands.

Tracklist

Side A

1. Blind
2. Ball Tongue
3. Need To
4. Clown

Side B

1. Divine
2. Faget
3. Shoots And Ladders

Side C

1. Predictable
2. Fake
3. Lies
4. Helmet In The Bush

Side D

1. Daddy
2. Michael And Geri (unlisted)

Credits

• Jonathan Davis — Vocals, Bagpipes
• James "Munky" Shaffer — Guitar
• Brian "Head" Welch — Guitar, Vocals
• Reginald "Fieldy" Arvizu — Bass
• David Silveria — Drums
• Ross Robinson — Producer, Recorded By, Mixed By
• Chuck Johnson — Engineer, Mixed By
• Eddy Schreyer — Mastering
• Recorded at Indigo Ranch Studios and Fat Tracks Recording Studio; mastered at Future Disc
• 2×LP 180g reissue on Epic / Immortal / Music On Vinyl, pressed at Record Industry