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Untitled - Korn
  • Band Name: Korn
  • Record Label: Virgin
  • Release Date: Jul 31, 2007
Metascore
51 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 16 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 12 out of 16
  3. Negative: 1 out of 16
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  1. Entertainment Weekly
    83
    Their best since 1999's "Issues."
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  2. Billboard
    80
    Korn is one step closer to crafting an album built for arenas and headphones alike.
  3. The New York Times
    70
    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.
  4. Blender
    60
    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').
  5. Q Magazine
    60
    The California band's doomy gothic arias sound unsettling and bold once more. [Sep 2007, p.91]
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  6. New Musical Express (NME)
    50
    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.
  7. Drowned In Sound
    50
    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.
  8. Rolling Stone
    50
    This album sounds like his band's final aria--the death scene.
  9. Village Voice
    50
    Much of the music bears little resemblance to the down-tuned chug-and-glug found on the band's early records.
  10. Hot Press
    50
    What the world needs now is love, sweet love. Instead we get a new Korn album. Oh well.
  11. All Music Guide
    40
    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.
  12. Spin
    40
    Even with precisely triggered drums and sensuously distorted bass lines, the band seems stuck in place. [Sep 2007, p.138]
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  13. NOW Magazine
    40
    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.
  14. Sputnikmusic
    40
    Korn feel tired, bland and dated.
  15. PopMatters
    40
    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.
  16. The A.V. Club
    25
    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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User Score
7.5 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 123 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 65 out of 87
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 87
  3. Negative: 17 out of 87
  1. CalR
    2
    'Untitled' is a truly loathsome album, abandoning completely what the band and the fan base long for. Poorly constructed NIN songs and even worse lyrics leave us with the hate-inducing 'Hushabye' and 'Hold On'.… Full Review »
  2. slipkornswitch
    7
    At this point of Korns career, many argued they should have shut up shop, Losing two fulltime band members and having a replacement in the band. But the core was still there, so why bother? David Silveria left after the SYOTOS world tour on 'Hiatus' which then became retirement, Korn enlisted Terry Bozzio (most notably from Frank Zappa) and he only featured on half the songs on the Untitled effort. The result? The Untitled album was a step better than SYOTOS but was stil unimpressive and uninspiring. But as a Korn fan, I am used to constant experimentation and effects. This album is packed to the brim full of effects using pro tools. There are endless layers to the songs with perhaps the exception of 'I Will Protect You' 'Ever Be' and 'Killing' Which are all the least complicated and most impressive 'Korn-esque' Tracks on Untitled. The album doesnt deliver ANY knock out blow tracks, and there are no epic closing tracks as featured on most of their albums. Even the deluxe EP edition doesnt have a notable b-side. BUT this is from the point of view comparing it to the rest of their discography. As a stand alone album from an experimenting band re-finding their feet, it is quite an enjoyable album, the effects and pro tools fill any weaknesses and holes left by absent band members and gives the Korn sound an almost Goth/Industrial edge to it. Lyrically Jonathan expands into new topics with a song or ttwo venting frustration at Head Welch and war of words that emerged between himself and the band post breakup. All in all the album lacks the generic Korn charm but is a good attempt at a new sound and once again pushes boundaries not previously attempted by the band. But not overly succesfully so.… Full Review »
  3. spookykid13
    9
    I don't see why this is so low. The album has the same feel through out which makes it excellent. Its got that circusey feel to it. I think the album has many great songs like Evolution, Hold On, Kiss, and Killing.… Full Review »
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