When a band remorsefully claims to go back to their (commercially successful) roots, after being unsuccessful and disregarded for years, then it gives testimony to a dying dinosaur. And in point of fact the dino known as KORN has been long time dead and gone.
Having once created and defined an own genre in metal music and ascended to a multi million seller the sound of KORN it's nothing to write home about anymore these days. Much more the band’s ninth effort entitled III - Remember Who You Are emerges to be a bitter swan song for the Nu Metal heroes. Totally lacking of inspiration and creativity KORN offer on their newest output songs, sounds, structures and arrangements you already got the better way on Life Is Peachy and Follow The Leader and lyrics already read on Issues.
The songs on III - Remember Who You Are are classic. Literally. Said with a sharp tongue, they are just a poor copy of erstwhile daring feats. A die-hard fan might be happy with it though ;) Tracks such as Oildale (Leave Me Alone) and Let The Guilt Go might achieve a certain position in the media charts and should work fine live on stage. Lead The Parade and Never Around even offer a hint of originality, but at the end it’s just a snapshot.
What a bummer, but with their current album III - Remember Who You Are, its title now appears to be much biting and sarky, the era KORN should have found an ultimate end.