Korn

With the normal album and touring cycle disrupted, Korn have decided to ignore the is huge and lavish in scale, helped in no small part by the extensive use of cutting-edge aerial technology and drones to give an epic sense of spectacle from the stage set for the . It’s akin to a stark, futuristic-looking film set, the distant strobing lights of the silhouetted cityscape signaling alienation and insidious emotional breakdown. At times Jonathan Davis and co. appear as small, black-clad nu-metal action figures against an overwhelming blitzkrieg backdrop of lasers and pulsing enormo-screen visuals, all the while expertly exploiting their extensive back catalogue and throwing in a handful of songs from , in a little over an hour. and from are interspersed with a wide selection of oldies like and , and a there’s a particularly intense as we head toward the climax of and . Altogether it’s a bit of a bomb-heavy tour de force. Dark, emotionally brutal and quite immense, even on a laptop screen, Korn deliver the unsavoury goods, no trouble at all.