There’s a certain irony in the fact that rock critics were writing obituaries for Kurt Cobain as Korn arrived at Indigo Ranch studios to record their debut album. For, in time, the music the Bakersfield, California quintet recorded at the picturesque Malibu studio would kill off grunge just as emphatically as Nirvana’s arrival in the mainstream signalled the death knell for '80s hair metal.
Introduced by Jonathan Davis’s electrifying call to arms, “Are you ready?”, Korn’s self-titled debut album is the sound of a musical revolution – a brutal, thrillingly invigorating re-imagining of metal for a new millennium, which has lost nothing of its power and impact three decades on.
