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Siamo nel 2005, ormai il nu è morto e sepolto, ma le uscite dei vari gruppi sopravvissuti della scena sono fioccate come neve in questo anno: c'è chi non ha cambiato di una virgola, riproponendo la stessa formula tra alti e bassi (Disturbed, Ill Nino, Sevendust, Staind, Static-X), c'è chi voleva svoltare dal recente passato ma non è riuscito a pieno a mettere in pratica le proprie idee (Limp Bizkit), c'è chi ha leggermente modificato il proprio sound verso lidi più duri (Hed Pe, Soulfly), c'è chi è uscito con addirittura due album nel giro di 6 mesi, dal dubbio valore (System Of A Down), c'è chi si è evoluto mantenendosi sempre su alti livelli confermandosi una delle teste di serie del genere (Mudvayne), e c'è chi, per calmare l'attesa del nuovo album, ha mandato sul mercato una raccolta di inediti e b-sides (Deftones). E naturalmente al culmine di questo anno ricco di ritorni nu-metal nel marasma metalcore sempre più imperante (e irritante) non potevano mancare loro, i padrini incontrastati, i capi, i profeti, gli immortali: i KoRn.
Le premesse comunque non erano delle migliori: l'abbandono del chitarrista Head per la fede cristiana è stato senza dubbio una brutta tegola per il gruppo, ma i nostri non si sono persi d'animo, e questo nuovo album ha già la particolarità di essere il primo album della band californiana senza la solita line-up, che era rimasta invariata fin dal giorno della loro nascita. Inoltre questo è anche il primo album della band non prodotto dalla Sony, con cui i nostri avevano sciolto il contratto qualche mese fa, per approdare alla Virgin. Ma oltre a questi accaduti non da poco, c'erano altri fattori che non mi facevano sperare in bene per questa nuova uscita: già "Take A Look In The Mirror" non mi era sembrato un gran che (certo, un buon album, bello potente, ma un pò povero di idee), poi la partecipazione al "Coca Cola Live At Mtv" sinceramente mi fece un pò storcere il naso, e naturalmente la solita consapevolezza che i nostri non riproporranno più canzoni memorabili come "Faget" o "Kill You" (tanto per citare due titoli), ma forse è meglio così, visto che sono sempre stati un gruppo in continua evoluzione.
Ma ora l'attesa è finita, e finalmente è uscito il settimo album della band di Bakersfield, "See You On The Other Side". Beh che dire, l'evoluzione continua! Si vede che questo album ha avuto un processo di concepimento molto lungo e ragionato, almeno in confronto al suo precedessore. Infatti la rabbia esplosiva di cui era impregnato "Take A Look In The Mirror" si è drasticamente ridimensionata per dare spazio ad atmosfere più cupe e più elettroniche del solito, come a voler confermare tutte le dichiarazioni fatte da Jonathan e soci riguardo ad un album con forti influenze industrial. Infatti quasi tutti i brani sono conditi da piacevoli arpeggi elettronici che ne arricchiscono la proposta. Questo però non vuol dire assolutamente che i nostri si siano ammosciati tutt'un tratto, anzi la rabbia c'è e tuona imperiosa in brani come "Politics", "Hypocrities", "Coming Undone", "Getting Off", "Liar" e "For No One", a conferma che lo stile KoRn domina ancora incontrastato, nonostante siano passati già più di 10 anni. "Love Song" porta con se ancora gli strascichi del sottovalutato "Untouchables", "Open Up" è una lunga cavalcata di 6 minuti introdotta da un piacevolissimo riff di basso di Fieldy e disciolta in un arpeggio acustico finale seguito da un intermezzo simile a quelli presenti in "Issues"; fa il pari con questa canzone "Seen It All", altro pezzo di 6 minuti totali di durata. Naturalmente come non dimenticare il grandissimo singolo (nonchè prima canzone dell'album) "Twisted Transistor", orecchiabile, frizzante, piacevolissimo, con un video veramente ganzo: grande! Davis poi ripropone in "Liar" quelle sfuriate vocali senza senso che hanno fatto grandi pezzi come "Twist", "BBK" e "Freak On A Leash" (chi se li ricorda?), veramente da pelle d'oca; e addirittura stupisce nel finale di "Getting Off" con un growl che ricorda troppo quello di Devin Townsend. Qui di spunti ce ne sono e parecchi: spiazzanti e sorprendenti "Throw Me Away", con le sue atmosfere "depechemodiane", e la conclusiva "Tearjerker", una canzone veramente anomala per i KoRn, con un magnifico Jonathan che per i primi 3 minuti e mezzo ci guida con la sua stupenda e melodica voce, accompagnata solamente da un oscuro sottofondo elettronico, prima dell'avvento di tutti gli altri componenti a concludere questo settimo capitolo della saga KoRn. Da notare anche l'uso molto frequente della cornamusa, presente nei finali di alcune canzoni, e l'assenza di pezzi rap suonati in collaborazione con qualche rapper famoso (come successe con Nas in TALITM). È inutile sottolineare che avere in un gruppo un cantante come Jonathan Davis è un lusso che si possono permettere in pochi: è lui infatti che da quel tocco in più che rende i KoRn una band unica, e qua lo ha dimostrato ancora una volta (come se ce ne fosse stato bisogno).
Quindi, un album con più idee rispetto a "Take A Look In The Mirror" (che mi è sempre sembrato un modo per tornare subito in carreggiata dopo il passo falso di "Untouchables") che punta meno ad attaccare l'ascoltatore con violenza, privilegando un uso più massiccio dell'elettronica, elemento veramente dominante durante tutto l'album. Sarà che non mi aspettavo niente di che, ma sono rimasto piacevolmente sorpreso da questo nuovo lavoro. Secondo me un ottimo ritorno per i KoRn, che non deludono mai (almeno per quanto mi riguarda). Secondo il modesto parere del sottoscritto, la migliore uscita nu metal di quest'anno, naturalmente insieme a "Lost And Found" dei mitici Mudvayne.
Vivamente consigliato!!! Loro sono già andati dall'altra parte (con o senza Head)... Ora tocca a voi!
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02 Politics (03:16)
Everyone's corrupt
You should just shut up
Lay down, back off
The demon you disrupted
Don't want to talk about politics
Don't preach or talk about politics
Don't let me talk about politics
Don't give a shit about politics
You want to sleep with him to get to who you need to know
Think that's the way to go don't you?
It's in religion, sex, and everything we do and say
I look the other way won't you?
Everybody's raped
Lying to your face
Kick's you in the gut
Slayed you here all messed up
Don't want to talk about politics
Don't preach or talk about politics
Don't let me talk about politics
Don't give a shit about politics
You want to sleep with him to get to who you need to know
Think that's the way to go don't you?
It's in religion, sex, and everything we do and say
I look the other way won't you?
Tiny spirits are in your soul (and they remain there)
Darkest life in the deepest hole (you sit and pray there)
All the deals from the things you've done (you wouldn't ever work for)
What you thought was so much fun (you have to pay for)
Don't want to talk about politics
Don't preach or talk about politics
Don't let me talk about politics
Don't give a shit about politics
You want to sleep with him to get to who you need to know
Think that's the way to go don't you?
It's in religion, sex, and everything we do and say
I look the other way won't you?
Don't want to talk about politics
Don't preach or talk about politics
Don't let me talk about politics
Don't give a shit about politics
Don't want to talk about politics
Don't preach or talk about politics
Don't let me talk about politics
Don't give a shit about politics!
03 Hypocrites (03:49)
Your messiah was never mine [x10]
Hypocrites!
Weeping rows of Jeremiah
Drops of blood drip off your medals
Representing all our tears
in a ring of burning metal
How you wanna be, what you gonna say
it doesn't bother me, who ya gonna pay
Sorcerers and Satan's come
To define the what and why
People travel across this earth
Over water, land, and sky
How you wanna be, what you gonna say
it doesn't bother me, who ya gonna pay
Pay the ferryman, pay the fucking driver
Pay the preachers and pay the fucking liars
Pay the angels they're touching on their dates, stand by
I'm not gonna pay it's already mine
Hypocrites
I'm gonna do it blind
Hypocrites
I'm gonna do it blind
Hypocrites
I'm gonna do it blind
Hypocrites
Your messiah was never mine
Weeping rows of Jeremiah
Purity unlike no other
Offers help to those who need it
Don't forget care to the brother
How you wanna be, what you gonna say it
Doesn't bother me, who ya gonna pay
Little old lady at home
Writing out a check to send
It's all the money that she owns
She believes the world might end
How you wanna be, what you gonna say it
Doesn't bother me, who ya gonna pay
Pay the ferryman, pay the fucking driver
Pay the preachers and pay the fucking liars
Pay the angels they're touching on their dates, stand by
I'm not gonna pay it's already mine
Hypocrites
I'm gonna do it blind
Hypocrites
I'm gonna do it blind
Hypocrites
I'm gonna do it blind
Hypocrites
Your messiah was never mine
Hypocrites!
Pay the ferryman, pay the fucking driver
Pay the preachers and pay the fucking liars
Pay the angels, they're touching on their dates
I'm not gonna pay it's already mine
Hypocrites
I'm gonna do it blind
Hypocrites
I'm gonna do it blind
Hypocrites
I'm gonna do it blind
Hypocrites
Hypocrites! [x4]
04 Souvenir (03:49)
I never knew what i was gonna be
somebody saw what i couldnt see
and it did me up now
I never thought i could be worthy of
lovin under the sky above
don't let the wondeful
why does everybody have to fit in
you should feel comfortable in the skin
just like me i am the
souvenir of sadness
melting to the madness
hands where you can feel this
anyone who has this...
stand up! nobody's dryin to save you
speak up! nobody's waiting to see you
wake up! nobody's trying to play you
let me make it then you'll have this
back up! nobody to destroy you
now this! nobody else to be this hard
go this! whatever's wrong with your head
love is my souvenir of sadness
they never knew what i was gonna say
punch me and kick me and drown away
now you know you are so
now look at me what do you have to say
never give up for you anyway
you know who you are so
now look at me what do you have to say
never give up for you anyway
happy child look at that
souvenir of sadness
melting to the madness
hands where you can feel this
anyone who has this...
stand up! nobody's dryin to save you
speak up! nobody's waiting to see you
wake up! nobody's trying to play you
let me make it then you'll have this
back up! nobody to destroy you
now this! nobody else to be this hard
go this! whatever's wrong with your head
love is my souvenir of sadness
souvenir of sadness
melting to the madness
hands where you can feel this
anyone who has this...
stand up! nobody's dryin to save you
speak up! nobody's waiting to see you
wake up! nobody's trying to play you
let me make it then you'll have this
back up! nobody to destroy you
now this! nobody else to be this hard
go this! whatever's wrong with your head
love is my souvenir of sadness
05 10 or a 2-Way (04:41)
Precious fingers she knows how to hold the poison
Lick it dip it and for no particular reason
She crawls on the floor slides against the door
Precious fingers over blossom and it's season
Doesn't matter she'll be doing it her way
Doesn't care if it's a 10 or a 2-way
Doesn't matter she'll be doing it her way
Every night every day
Never meant to show up here anyway
Only f**king you till the season change
Treasure deep between the places that you hold dear
Can't it hurt to act as if we are in love here?
Lying across this chair fingers everywhere
To defying all the angels up above here
Doesn't matter she'll be doing it her way
Doesn't care if it's a 10 or a 2-way
Doesn't matter she'll be doing it her way
Every night every day
Never meant to show up here anyway
Only f**king you till the season change
When you cum (Be a good girl)
Hold your breath (Make it last long)
It is called (the)
the "little dead" girl
Never meant to show up here anyway
Only f**king you till the season change
Never meant to show up here anyway
Only f**king you till the season change
07 Love Song (04:18)
Murder!
Your holding my heart, screaming.
Motherfucker!
They left me broken, bleeding.
Son of!
The man you loved and left for
The son of a bitch!
Who tried to show me death's door.
(Ah)
Everything's illuminated.
Everything is dedicated.
(Ah)
Tried to leave this life I hated
Even that what's over-rated.
Love song for the dear departed.
Headstone for the broken hearted.
Arm's to kill.
more flowers to steal.
Head-trip for the mortal earth bound.
One sip of the blood that I found.
Lying here...
Im dying here.
And then!
Obtituaries rain down.
And suddenly!
We're lying naked face down.
(Ah)
Once again decapitated.
Can't you see me fasinated.
(Ah)
Never knew enough to damage.
Even that can be mis-managed.
Love song for the dear departed.
Headstone for the broken hearted.
Arm's to kill.
more flowers to steal.
Head-trip for the mortal earth bound.
One sip of the blood that I found.
Lying here.
Im dying here.
Dying here..
Don't bring me daffodils.
Bring a bouquet of pills.
See some drainum.
Cracked to the crainum.
Protect me when you can.
Respect me when I am...
Dying.
Love song for the dear departed.
Headstone for the broken hearted.
Arm's to kill.
more flowers to steal.
Head-trip for the mortal earth bound.
One sip of the blood that I found.
Lying here.
I'm dying here.
Love song for the dear departed.
Headstone for the broken hearted.
Arm's to kill.
more flowers to steal.
Head-trip for the mortal earth bound.
One sip of the blood that I found.
Lying here...
I'm dying here.
08 Open Up (06:15)
What were you thinking
I guess i'll never know
See your eyes thinking
Pupils begin to grow
Drilling you softly
Pulling you in
Making your mind up
What's sick or a sin
[Chorus]
Open up now
Let it all go
I'm quite certain
Say it aint so
You're corrupted by
Some sick fuck
Oh no
Open up now
Head in the sky
Here's the tongue that
Keeps telling lies
Feelings in my mouth
You breathe in but can't brethe out
What you've been taking
It makes you talk
Real slow
How come i'm thinking
You'd be the last
To know
(You'd be the last to know)
Choking you gently
Gaining control
Hand you the shovel
To dig your own hole
[Chorus]
Choking you gently
Gaining control
Hand you the shovel
To dig your own hole
Open up now
Let it all go
Open up now
Let it all go
Open up now
Head in the sky
Here's the tongue that
Keeps telling lies
Feelings in my mouth
You breathe in but can't brethe out
You breathe in but can't breathe out
09 Coming Undone (03:19)
Keep holding on
When my brain's tickin' like a bomb
Guess the black bots have come Again to get me
Sweet bitter words
Unlike nothing I have heard
Sing along mocking bird
You don't affect me
That's right
Deliverance of my heart
Be straight
Be deliverance
Wait
I'm coming undone
Unlaced
I'm coming undone
Too late
I'm coming undone
What looks so strong
So delicate
Wait
I'm starting to suffocate
And soon I anticipate
I'm coming undone
What looks so strong
So delicate
Choke choke again
I find my demons are my friends
Getting me in the end
They're out to get me
Since I was young
I've tasted sorrow on my tongue
And this sweet chugga gun
Does not protect me
That's right
Trigger between my eyes
Please strike
Make it quick now
Wait
I'm coming undone
Unlaced
I'm coming undone
Too late
I'm coming undone
What looks so strong
So delicate
Wait
I'm starting to suffocate
And soon I anticipate
I'm coming undone
What looks so strong
So delicate
I'm trying to hold it together
Head is lighter than a feather
Looks like i'm not getting better
Not getting better
Wait
I'm coming undone
Unlaced
I'm coming undone
Too late
I'm coming undone
What looks so strong
So delicate
Wait
I'm starting to suffocate
And soon I anticipate
I'm coming undone
What looks so strong
So delicate
11 Liar (04:14)
My brother, you love her
But don't give up your instincts
Hang onto you know what
They'll be gone fast as you blink
They're trained to suduce you
Suck you dry quick as they can
They tried to reduce you
Now you're barely a man
Oh my God
How can you deny the flood
That's flowing through you
Hey you
You're saying that she's all that you desire
Liar
Hey you
You think you can throw water on this fire
Liar
It's not wrong to let go
And let the woman ride you
For fuck sake, don't lose touch
With the dog that's inside you
She wanted what you had
You bet she smelt the spore
Don't give up, fuck her up
One more time, slam that door
Oh my God
How can you deny the flood
That's flowing through you
Hey you
You're saying that she's all that you desire
Liar
Hey you
You think you can throw water on this fire
Liar
Oh my God
How can you deny the flood
That's flowing through you
Hey you
You're saying that she's all that you desire
Liar
Hey you
You think you can throw water on this fire
Liar
Oh my God
How can you deny the flood
That's flowing through you
13 Seen It All (06:19)
I'm an animal
I'm a victim
I'm the answer to your prayers
I'm a witness
On the witchhunt
I'm the monster of the stairs
I'm ghost that's
In the mirror
I'm everything that you fear
I'm the riptide
I'm the soldier
I'm the voice that's in your head
[Chorus]
I've seen it all
Still can't taste it
Smashed to the wall
That brought me to my knees
I've done it all
Fucked up
Wasted
Still in my blood
But now inside unseen
I'm the hunted
I'm a predator
I'm the answer to the riddle
I'm the upbeat
I'm the headfuck
I'm the way yarn flips to the middle
I the payer
I'm maniving
I'm the one who's not addicted
I'm illogic
Turn the fuck up
I'm the broken one who fixed it
[Chorus X2]
I'm just a child
With tears in it's eyes
I am holding this gift
That is broken
What do I have left now
I've seen it all
I've done it all
I've seen it all
I've done it all
[Chorus X2]
Now inside unseen
14 Tearjerker (05:05)
Well I wish there was someone
Well I wish there was someone
To love me
When I used to be someone
And I knew there was someone
That loved me
As I sit here frozen alone
Even ghosts get tired and go home
As they crawl back under the stones
And I wish there was something
Please tell me there's something better
And I wish there was something more than this
Saturated loneliness
And I wish I could feel it
And I wish I could steal it
Abduct it, corrupt it, but I never can
it's just saturated loneliness
Does the silence get lonely?
Does the silence get lonely?
Who knows?
I've been hearing it tell me
I've been hearing it tell me
Go home
Cause the freaks are playing tonight
They packed up and turned out the lights
And I wish there was something
Please tell me there's something better
And I wish there was something more than this
Saturated loneliness
And I wish I could feel it
And I wish I could steal it
Abduct it, corrupt it, but I never can
It's just saturated loneliness
And the bath water's cold
And this life's getting old
And I wish I could feel it
And I wish I could feel it
And I wish I could steal it
Abduct it, corrupt it
And I wish I could feel it
And I wish I could steal it
And I wish I could feel it
Abduct it, corrupt it
But I never can
I never can
Never can
Never can
Never can
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Altre recensioni
Di Mr.Room
"Il nuovo Korn è il (classico) album che non ci si aspetta, ciò significa in entrambi i sensi: nel bene e nel male."
"La vera brutalità è il fattore che per la prima volta, sento mancare in un album dei Korn."
Di Adil
Immarcescibili.
Siamo probabilmente davanti al peggiore album mai dato alle stampe dai Korn.
Di Brizz89
L'unico modo per recuperare questo gruppo dalle grandi idee è che lascino passare 3 o 4 anni prima di buttare fuori un altro album, studiando per bene e rivangando sulle proprie scelte musicali.
La potenza sembra svanire per lasciare spazio a qualcosa di più 'mainstream', ma non mancano i lavori interessanti.
Di Indio
Questo album è un insulto alla musica e alla stessa band.
Sono lontani i tempi di 'Korn' e 'Life Is Peachy', lontanissimi anni luce.
Di Metal89
Basterà una parola per dire cosa è quest'album; una merda.
Possibile che Davis e compagnia non l’abbiano ancora capito? I Korn di ora non hanno più senso.
