When I first heard Life Is Peachy I couldn’t believe how disgusting, drab and downtuned it was. Everyone seems to have this reaction to the Korn debut, but personally, for me, the band took their sound even further south with this sophomore effort.
This stands up today still, as something that is astronomically heavy. Some of the tracks are a bit pants (the one with the guy from Deftones rapping is an abomination), and the overall vibe is a bit messy, but that unhinged energy and raw emotion is what made Korn so exciting. Coincidentally, it’s also what is missing from most of their later stuff.