Whatever Heady goodness Brian Welch brought back to the mix seems to be working and KoRn sounds young again. Luckily, the appropriately entitled The Paradigm Shift isn’t a misfire. This makes The Paradigm Shift the first Head-centric album since 2003’s misfire Take a Look in the Mirror. The change may be heralded by the return of long time guitarist Brian “Head” Welch to the lineup. This trend seems to have shifted back to the positive with their eleventh album The Paradigm Shift, which brings back many electronic and melodic elements of the band’s Issues and Untouchables albums. It was beginning to look like KoRn’s best days were behind them and their best albums relics of the previous century. This trend culminated in the angry, yet commercial anti-single “Ya’ll want a Single” that was steeped in so much irony, it rounded the corner back into straightforwardness, back into irony and splashing down somewhere in the sea of missing your own point. Jonathan Davis still sounded like no other metal singer and the band was still heavy, yet their music was no longer quite unforgettable. But after the impressive 2002 album Untouchables, Korn seemed to be at the edge of a nadir. From their ambitious and emotional self-titled debut album from 1994 (which managed to combine nursery rhymes, aggressive scatting, bagpipes (!) and even the lead singer dissolving into tears up through their involvement in the rap-metal and “nu metal” movement of the late 1990s and their return to form in the early part of the new century. KoRn has always been on the bleeding edge of modern Heavy Metal, yet generally gave the impression that they were blazing their own trails.
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