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Untitled

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7.3 User Score:

Mixed or average reviews

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Album Info

Label: Virgin

Release Date: 31 July 2007

Discs: 1 disc

Genre(s): Alternative, Rock

Summary

Drummer Terry Bozzio only features in half of the tracks on Korn's eighth album, which ends their current contract with Virgin.

What The Critics Said

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

83

Entertainment Weekly

Their best since 1999's "Issues."

80

Billboard

Korn is one step closer to crafting an album built for arenas and headphones alike.

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70

The New York Times

In setting aside its trademark sound, Korn hasn’t yet replaced it with something of its own, but at least the band is working on it.

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60

Q Magazine

The California band's doomy gothic arias sound unsettling and bold once more. [Sep 2007, p.91]

60

Blender

While his band's skeletal, rattling rhythms, swollen with synthesizer and studio ornamentation, feel more multidimensional than ever, Davis is most compelling when he retreats into the third person to describe an unnamed, uninspired singer with a "dumb-ass song" ('Ever Be').

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50

Drowned In Sound

It’s neither poor enough to warrant a panning, nor progressive enough to deserve praising to a degree where recommendation to absolute beginners is necessary.

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50

Hot Press

What the world needs now is love, sweet love. Instead we get a new Korn album. Oh well.

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50

Rolling Stone

This album sounds like his band's final aria--the death scene.

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50

Village Voice

Much of the music bears little resemblance to the down-tuned chug-and-glug found on the band's early records.

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50

New Musical Express

Korn's eighth is actually an interesting listen; as diverse as the witless art of nu-metal gets. That doesn't mean it's good. It merely leaves us with a numbing dilemma: we want to hate it, but we can't.

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40

NOW Magazine

Most bizarre are the contributions of studio drummer Terry Bozzio, known for his work with Frank Zappa, who, despite his reputation as one of rock's most talented stick men, fails to sound heavy, menacing or even relatively interesting.

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40

All Music Guide

Which may make it a change of pace for Korn, but it sure doesn't break them out of their midlife slump--if anything, it exacerbates it.

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40

PopMatters

This self-titled sounds like Korn trying to play watered-down nu-Korn, or Nine Inch Nails, or, if such prestigious tie-ins really do exist here, it's in such a heavy-handed and amateurish way that the former artists would probably run a mile from it.

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40

Sputnikmusic

Korn feel tired, bland and dated.

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40

Spin

Even with precisely triggered drums and sensuously distorted bass lines, the band seems stuck in place. [Sep 2007, p.138]

25

The Onion (A.V. Club)

Untitled should make no sense to any sentient being older than 18, but that isn't ageism, it's practical marketing

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this album is 7.3 (out of 10) based on 108 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Tim O gave it a4:
Something happened to Korn after Issues. #1. Guitars that sound like guitars. #2. Jon wailing instead of moaning #3. Simplified, more shallow soundscape. Based on the above, I don't think I'll ever listen to a post-Issues album with anything but distaste in my mouth. All of the 'tasteful, powerful aggression' has gone (esp. in his voice). All of the "You've never heard a guitar sound like this before" has gone. All of the "No band sounds like this" is gone. Instead they sound like a copy of themselves. I don't want it to sound like old Korn, but I feel the direction they went conflicts with the reasons I liked them in the earlier work. My guess at why? They became too big and stopped listening to their producers. Partial blame on the Queen of the Damned soundtrack. Ross Robinson FTW!

Josh S. gave it a7:
This album puts korn into a direction that they had not yet travelled into the semi-industrial rock arena. Though it is a far cry from the powerful aggression and disturbing themes of years past its easy to tell the loss of band members and the ever ageing remainders, the sound is more mature and respectful. But the empire that is KoRn seems to be losing ground on what they used to be, fans should only start being worried when it becomes obvious that records are being made for money and not out of cretive influences

Tyler R. gave it an8:
I gotta say right now, I find this album to be very underrated. I love Korn's work, they're an awesome band. Just because this album sounds different from their other ones, doesn't mean it sucks. Now I won't say this album is perfect by any means. I'm not particularly fond of the last two songs, but the rest of the album has nice rifts and a cool atmospheric sound that I find pleasing to listen to. "Hold On,""Do What They Say,""Killing," and "Starting Over" are my favorite tracks on the album and a majority of the others work for me as well. Compared to their other albums, this album sounds a lot more experimental, but the sound works for me, personally.

jim s gave it a7:
This album is not the best cd in the world but there are good songs on it like Evolution, Innocent Bystander, Killing and others and I got it for 10$ at Wal-mart and i think its worth it but if you want to buy a KoRn cd their other ones are better

Nathan T gave it a7:
This is probably Korn's weakest album. My favorite songs on this were Bitch We've Got A Problem and Starting Over. I own this album along with 9 other Korn albums.

Adam K gave it a6:
I would have to agree with Richard on the topic of their new album. While it has more depth to it, there's not many catchy riffs or choruses. I found the emotion in this one lacking. I enjoy Korn for being able to bring out my aggressive side and let loose, this album was lacking in that respect. While I do acknowledge the band's growth, I also miss the heavier sounds that came from David Silveraa and Fieldy as well as Head's talent for creating a heavy riff. Don't get me wrong, I do believe Munky is a fabulous guitar player, but totally on a different level of style when compared to Head. While this is not a bad thing, it is like the band starting over, they have to find their new voice since the changing and loss of members. While I won't ever bash the album, I will not put it into my CD rotation over previous albums.

Richard F. gave it a6:
It's a solid album overall, which grows with each listen. Guilty of being slightly overproduced, and there's a distinct lack of ass-kicking riffery, but the band do manage to incorporate an eerie progressive feel to a number of tracks. This ensures that, while it may not be their finest album and they've yet to find a comfortable niche outside of their trademark "nu-metal", Korn are a band who are willing to push their boundaries and evolve.

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