Issues (Remastered) Korn

• 1 Dead 01:12
• 2 Falling Away from Me 04:31
• 3 Trash 03:27
• 4 4U 01:42
• 5 Beg for Me 03:54
• 6 Make Me Bad 03:55
• 7 It's Gonna Go Away 01:31
• 8 Wake Up 04:08
• 9 Am I Going Crazy 00:59
• 10 Hey Daddy 03:45
• 11 Somebody Someone 03:47
• 12 No Way 04:08
• 13 Let's Get This Party Started 03:41
• 14 Wish You Could Be Me 01:07
• 15 Counting 03:38
• 16 Dirty 07:50
• Total Runtime 53:15

Info for Issues (Remastered)

Korn, one of the genre defining Nu Metal bands. Of their eight studio albums the first seven have been certified platinum. Issues was their first album after their mainstream breakthrough with Follow The Leader.

On Issues the hip hop elements of Follow The Leader were removed moving the band in a more alternative and industrial metal sound rather than the so-called Nu Metal.

Although Issues was released during a week of many highly-anticipated records, it debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 keeping Dr. Dre and Celine Dion from hitting #1. The first single from the album, 'Falling Away From Me', debuted on South Park in an episode titled 'Korn's Groovy Pirate Ghost Mystery'. The band was featured in cartoon form as Scooby Doo-style mystery solvers.

„Released in the fall of 1999, when Korn were in danger of being overshadowed by such protégés as Limp Bizkit, Issues reaffirms the group's status as alt-metal leaders, illustrating that the true difference between Korn and their imitators is their mastery of sound. Korn are about nothing if not sound. Sure, Jonathan Davis doesn't merely toss off lyrics, but in the end, it doesn't matter since his voice and the various words that float to the surface simply enhance the mood. Similarly, the band doesn't really have any distinguished riffs or hooks -- everything each member contributes adds to the overall sound -- so, casual listeners can be forgiven if they think the songs sound the same, since not only do the tracks bleed into one other, the individual songs have no discernible high points. Each cut rises from the same dark sonic murk, occasionally surging forward with volume, power, and aggression. It's mood music -- songs don't matter, but the foreboding feeling and gloomy sounds do. To a certain extent, this has always been true of Korn albums, but it's particularly striking on Issues because they pull off a nifty trick of stripping their sound back to its bare essentials and expanding and rebuilding from that. They've decided to leave rap-metal to the likes of Limp Bizkit, since there is very little rapping or appropriation of hip-hop culture anywhere on Issues. By doing this, they have re-emphasized their skill as a band, and how they can find endless, often intriguing, variations on their core sound. Issues may not be the cathartic blast of anger their debut was, nor is it as adventurous as Follow the Leader, but it better showcases the sheer raw power of the band than either.“ (Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AMG)

Jonathan Davis, vocals, bagpipes, drums, programming
Reginald 'Fieldy' Arvizu, bass, programming
James 'Munky' Shaffer, guitars
Brian 'Head' Welch, guitars
David Silveria, drums

Recorded July–September 1999 at A&M Studios, West Hollywood, California and Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Produced by Brendan O'Brien

Digitally remastered

KORN
The members of Korn built an immortal bond back in 1993 the first time that Jonathan Davis, James "Munky" Shaffer, Reginald "Fieldy" Arvizu, and Brian "Head" Welch decided to make music as a unit. They shed blood, sweat, and tears in the studio and on stage, fashioning an undeniable, unsettling, and unique sound that would permanently alter the course of rock music.

After six seminal releases, two Grammy Award wins, countless sold out shows, and eventually selling 35 million albums worldwide, Head left the group in 2004 to face down the demons of addiction on his own. Korn soldiered on, permanently adding drummer Ray Luzier to the fold in 2007and releasing four more epic full-length releases, most recently 2011's groundbreaking dubstep-metal hybrid The Path of Totality.

The nu metal band Korn was born from the band previously known as L.A.P.D. and three of its original members – Reginald Arvizu, James Shaffer, and David Silvera. After L.A.P.D. disbanded, Silvera, Arvizu, and Shaffer brought Jonathan Davis and Brian Welch into the band and created Korn. The band started performing publicly in 1993, and began work on a demo album around the same time. Korn was self-released in the following year and the band’s new metal sound piqued the interest of a number of music critics. That same year, Korn joined such notable artists as Ozzy Osbourne on tour, helping to further establish a fan base and bring them album into the Billboard 200 charts. The album eventually reached multi-platinum status and earned Korn a Grammy nomination for Best Metal Performance. The singles “Blind,” “Shoots and Ladders,” and “Need To,” were all equally successful, launching a career for Korn which has lasted well into the new millennium.

Since that time, Korn has released the albums: Life Is Peachy (1996), Follow the Leader (1998), Issues (1999), Untouchables (2002), Take A Look in the Mirror (2003), See You on the Other Side (2005), Korn III: Remember Who You Are (2010), and The Path of Totality (2011.) The albums have spawned some of nu metal’s biggest hits, including: “Got the Life,” “Freak on a Leash,” “Falling Away from Me,” “Make Me Bad,” “Somebody Someone,” “Here to Stay,” “Thoughtless,” “Alone I Break,” “Did My Time,” “Right Now,” “Everything I’ve Known,” “Twisted Transistor,” “Coming Undone,” “Evolution,” “Let the Guilt Go,” “Narcissistic Cannibal,” and “Way Too Far.” For their contributions to metal music, Korn has been recognized with multiple awards, including two Grammy Awards (with seven nominations.) Korn’s worldwide record sales have exceeded the fifty million mark, and they’ve placed eleven singles in the top ten of the Billboard 200. Korn’s most recent release is Paradigm Shift, which arrived in 2013.

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