Brian "Head" Welch has officially returned to Korn. Not only touring but recording a new album to be released in 2013 with producer Don Gilmore. I'm seeing them live May 23rd. I'm excited for the concert and eager about the new record with Head returning. Thoughts?
Please yes Skrillex or experiments on this one too. I don't want to fuckin hear stupid Nu-Metal again. The Path of Totality was a good way to go on. Please Korn, don't fuck this up and make another "Korn" because of the fans. But Gilmore is the producer........Ah..........well............... Well I hope they will not let Don to "take control" of the album because it will Falling Away From Them.........
The difference between a band like Linkin Park releasing a nu metal album at this point in their career and a band like Korn doing the same is that Linkin Park has been consistently putting out good music, while Korn hasn't released an album that's been anything better than mediocre since 1999. Honestly, working with Don and doing a "back to the roots" kind of album might be the best thing for them right now, particularly with Head being back in the picture for the first time in like 8 years.
Untouchables was their best album ever, and they tried a 'back to their roots' album already that didn't sell at all. Though did pretty well critically, surprisingly. At any rate, a 'classic Korn' album would be best, but Don Gilmore at the helm might as well be Bob Rock; as bad as the last handful of Korn albums could be (they were a grab bag, for the most part, some gems and some shit, but none of them were completely awful), I can't see this being anything besides average at best.
Lol Korn got themselves stuck in a such a rut it's hard to see them doing something different. Which is weird when you think about. Your singer is a dj on the side and your lead guitarist is in an industrial band and they can only make nu metal (oh except for the shitty one off dubstep album )
Everything post-Head (barring Korn 3) was drastically different from their 90's nu-metal glory days. I get if you'd think it's shitty, but I'd say their last few albums were pretty big stabs at something besides nu-metal.
Exhibit A Exhibit B Exhibit C Exhibit D Again, thinking it's shit is understandable, but that's pretty far from nu-metal (especially 90's nu-metal). At least LPA's understanding of "nu-metal", anyway.