Here we go, Korn latest single from their seventh album. Korn breathed life into the heavy metal genre, before it went all nu-metal, leaving Korn sounding a bit, well, old fashioned. This is the bands first offering since the departure of guitarist and founding member Brian ‘Head’ Welch.

For those, who don’t know, Korn have sold around 25 million albums (14 million in the US alone). Most of those sales piggy-backed off the brilliance of their first album and their rather commercial third album Follow the Leader.

‘Twisted Transistor’ is crap. I won’t pussy foot around the obvious, even at full volume it simply blends into the background. The riff is rather dull, and played in a lifeless way. The vocals are lost in the shiny, very poppy style mix, which leaves everything all too shiny. Fuck, they should have taken a cue from Metallica’s last album. It needs to be raw.

A lot of people would say, this has been the case since the fourth album and I would whole-heartedly agree. The real reason this pisses me off, is that Jonathan Davis’ work on the Queen of the Damned soundtrack was so outstanding, it proved what we Korn fans knew all along, that he could still write brilliant songs. So what the fuck is this limp effort about?

(2/5)

Release Date: 21 November 2005

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