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KORN

KORN

handful of albums in the history of heavy metal that can be considered genuine game-changing moments in our history. The first Black Sabbath’s album, Maiden’s Metallica’s . And the debut album from Bakersfield quintet Korn, AKA the godfathers of nu metal, can proudly stand shoulder to shoulder with any of them. While nu metal ended up booming and busting in such a short space of time, Korn completely reshaped what it meant to be a metal band. Not only did they look utterly unlike anything or anyone within our world, not only were they pulling from an entirely unique set of influences that the metal universe had never leaned

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