Korn Untouchables

Tracklist:
1) Here To Stay
2) Make Believe
3) Blame
4) Hollow Life
5) Bottled Up Inside
6) Thoughtless
7) Hating
8) Alone I Break
10) Embrace
11) Beat It Upright
12) Wake Up Hate
13) I'm Hiding
14) No One's There

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Korn had a pretty good opportunity to experiment if you ask me; they had 3 years, and were on a few soundtracks, and got a lot of time for the creative process, so I was expecting a lot. Korn could have revitalize their music and made something good (At least better than Issues). But what did Korn do? Korn probably slept during those "creative processes" and finished this piece of garbage last minute, and it sounds like a lackluster Issues 2, with all the more dull electronic effects, 1-3 power chords per song, and the same concepts that all the other albums had. Almost nothing is different from Untouchables and Issues; and the few differences make it far worse.

Jon Davis used to be an emotional singer, making up for his mediocrity with his lyrics, but Jon seems to be going through the motions instead of making raw, emotional music. Thus, the mediocrity of lyrics just crash through; "I'm thinking of/Thanking all the ***ed people/Thanking all the *** I love/They are all the things I've made/Straight from my heart/Begging all the same people/Burning is the same evil/Somehow making me feel sane". Kind of a weird cause and affect, don't you agree? Jon is vocally trite in Untouchables, and unfortunately, he sings a lot. "Bottled Up Inside" has vocals that sound like "Trash", and that's a bad thing. John Davis has never been great vocally, but this album shows why his vocals are trite and poor at times, just like his songwriting.

David Silveria started dumbing down his drumming in Issues, and here he’s just awful. On this album, Silveria plays with such simplicity that even a Caveman can do it (sorry Geico, I just had to do it.) Most of the drumming sounds like a normal radio rock affair, just hitting the drums whenever needed for back beats and "emotional" chorus's. David Silveria gets lazier and lazier as the album goes on, and by the album closer "No One's There," I just wanted to slap the boy. It hurts me to hear such simple drumming, especially after hearing his work on albums like S/t and Life Is Peachy. There is a bed making company whose name represents David on this album: Lay-Z-Boy.

Any songs on this album that don’t sound like carbon copies of past Korn songs are actually worse in most cases. “Hollow Life” is exemplifies when one of these rare experiments goes insanely wrong. Hearing Jon go for those high notes in part of the chorus made me cringe, and the uninspired verses didn’t help. The song fits into the concept of the album: dull in every sense of the word. “Bottled Up Inside” is also an appallingly bad song, with some of the least exhilarating guitar work I have ever heard in my life, about 1.5 power chords slopped together poorly.

So in summary, This sounds like a sequel of Issues: continuing a decline of a once great band, into a band that couldn’t find music if it punched them down to the ground then slapped them with this album. The electronic effects of this album distract from any real purpose to make any mark of importance. The guitar work, the singing, the drums, and the lyrics are some of the least animated that I have ever heard. The bass is really hard to hear, because that’s what they did for Issues. Korn, if you wanted to follow a formula, follow S/t’s or even Follow The Leader, go for a more raw sound, or a hip hop one, not a drained, bored, and tired one. This is just proof that you can’t do something forever, and decline happens to everyone, but for Korn it happened early, and this sadly is the lowest point of their career.

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