How old were you when you first heard Korn?

[drumwolf]

I was in my mid-20's when they came out. Having grown up on '80s heavy metal, death metal and thrash, and then listened to great noise-alternative bands like Sonic Youth, Mudhoney, and Helmet, I really found these guys to be an uninspired, by-the-numbers attempt to commercialize on the "alternative rock" trend of the time.

I know there are a lot of other old metalheads on DU, who grew up listening to Priest/Maiden/Motorhead in the early '80s and/or later went on to DRI, Suicidal Tendencies, etc. later in the decade. Am I the only one who finds the whole "nu-metal" genre really limp and uninspired or do other old metalheads feel the same way too?

[tandot]

1. I never heard my korns talking...they just hurt like crazy

n/t

[MissMillie]

2. I don't know that I've ever heard them

I'm not any kind of a metalhead.

[neuvocat]

3. I never heard them

they look too much like the rest of the boy bands out there.

[Beware the Beast Man]

4. nu-metal was the hair metal of the 90's

just image..

[Wickerman]

5. I took no note of when I first heard them

uninspired nails it for me. What perplexed me most was all the Korn stickers that young boys and girls plastered on their mom and dad's BMW's. :shrug: Some things just don't work.

[SheepyMcSheepster]

6. i heard Korn when i was about 18

and yes i agree totally with what you are saying. i started getting into music with stuff like sonic youth/mudhoney/pixies and then turned on to punk rock which led me to grindcore and then into Death Metal. all this "nu-metal" jock rock gets on my nerves, very lame.

a couple months before Korn really broke big, they were supposed to be playing at this small bar/venue with Machines of Loving grace, i went to the show interested in seeing them but their bus broke down on the way. i would have liked to have seen them there. I do respect Korn much more than the thousands of knock-offs they have inspired, they are decent musicians and have their own thing going, but that thing should stop with them.

I am tired of the bands that project a tuff metal image that play lame crap.

you want some awesome super cool death metal that is fun innovative and just foreign sounding, check out Anata, they are from sweden and they are masters of doing weird sounding timing on top of furious melodic death metal. if you like death metal, listen to them, they are by far my favorite.

http://www.earache.com/bands/anata/navigation/biography.html

also i just noticed some of my freinds are being pimped on that earache page, check out Municipal Waste (total thrash) from richmod va. http://www.earache.com/bands/municipal_waste/navigation/biography.html
http://www.dfbpunk.com/reviews.php?id=2214

[parasim]

7. 37 or so...

... when my son was 11, 12. He's the one that introduced me to them. I'm not a metalhead, but I kind of liked Korn because of the hiphop influences. I do appreciate Sonic Youth and bands like that as well, however.

My son is in a hardcore band and is somewhat of a heavy metal connoisseur and when I recently asked him what he thinks about Korn now, he echoes what you are saying. In fact, he is quite adamant about it.

[T_i_B]

8. I was 16

and I was certainly the first kid in my year to get into them. They were really different and original at the time.

However, I don't really listen to them that much these days. Nu-Metal was great, but for me the genre went too big and too commercial.