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By cutting away some of the fat and finding new ways to deliver their trademark roar, the members of Korn manage to offer a strong and lean album that maintains their place as innovators in a genre with few leaders
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Q MagazineThe riffs are cleaner and catchier than on previous records. [Aug 2002, p.126]
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'Untouchables' is a record that grows spikes with each listen and is by turns exhilarating, confusing, inspiring, embarrassing and astonishing.
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With his background in both trailblazing funk and hard art-rock, producer Michael Beinhorn helps Korn's vicious rhythm section pound harder while expanding the band's higher frequencies with electronics and symphonics, even as its famously down-tuned guitars buzz away.
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Entertainment WeeklyNothing here explains the reported $4.5 million budget. [28 June 2002, p.142]
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Alternative PressTheir darkest, most impenetrable record yet--the aural approximation of staring down a mine shaft at midnight. [Jul 2002, p.75]
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BlenderTheir best, most expansive album. [#8, p.112]
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Even after one listen it's apparent that 'Untouchables' is a monster of a record.
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The song, sentiment and anger remain the same.
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It's sort of beautiful in its ugliness, a metal record lovingly buffeted by details and white noise.
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Untouchables ends up heavy on stadium rock bluster, with precious little of the musical texture and intricacy that made Follow the Leader one of the few transcendent albums of its genre.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 118 out of 128
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Mixed: 4 out of 128
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Negative: 6 out of 128
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Feb 20, 2012
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Jul 25, 2018
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Feb 20, 2019