Issues (album)

Issues
Studio album by
Publication (s)	November 16, 1999
admission	July to September 1999
Label (s)	Immortal Records , Epic Records
Genre (s)	Nu metal , alternative metal
Title (number)	16
running time	53:16
occupation	Jonathan Davis - vocals , drums , bagpipe Brian Welch - guitar James Shaffer - guitar Reginald Arvizu - bass David Silveria - drums
production	Brendan O'Brien
Studio (s)	A&M Studios, West Hollywood , California
chronology Follow the Leader (1998) Issues Untouchables (2002)

Issues (English for: " Problems ") is the fourth studio album by the US Nu-Metal band Korn . It was released on November 16, 1999 by Immortal and Epic and was produced by Brendan O'Brien (among others Pearl Jam ). It went triple platinum in the US and has sold more than 13 million copies worldwide to date.

background

At the time of the publication of Issues , Nu Metal was on the rise and other bands, such as Limp Bizkit , played this style successfully. At the Woodstock III Festival in the summer of 1999, Korn played songs from the upcoming album Issues , albeit under a different name and with unfinished lyrics. Overall, the songs are less influenced by hip-hop than on the previous album . The album has some shorter cutscenes and begins with a bagpipe intro in which Korn singer Jonathan Davis sings the words " All I want in life is to be happy ". This is in contrast to the psychological situation of Davis, who resorted to the "happiness drug" Prozac during the creation . In Visions magazine , the record was also referred to as "a journey into the devastated soul of the front man" Davis. And similarly in Metal Hammer as “the musical testimony of Jonathan's struggle to free himself from the pull of the downward spiral”.

On October 27, 1999, the first single Falling Away From Me was presented in an episode of South Park entitled Korn's Groovy Pirate Ghost Mystery , with the band being integrated into the episode in cartoon form. The album was unveiled the day before its release at New York's historic Apollo Theater . The band toured to the album until 2000, with drummer David Silveria having to be replaced by Faith No More's Mike Bordin due to an injury . In the summer of 2000 the band played with Metallica , Kid Rock , Powerman 5000 and System of a Down .

Once again, the album reached number one on the Billboard 200 , and it topped the charts in Australia .

layout

An MTV competition was announced for the album cover . The winning design comes from Alfredo Carlos, but places two to four have also been published. Number five appeared as a limited special edition in small numbers.

Track list

1. Dead - 1:12
2. Falling Away from Me - 4:30
3. Trash - 3:27
4. 4U - 1:42
5. Beg for Me - 3:53
6. Make Me Bad - 3:55
7. It's Gonna Go Away - 1:30
8. Wake Up - 4:07
9. Am I going crazy? - 0:59
10. Hey Daddy - 3:44
11. Somebody Someone - 3:47
12. No Way - 4:08
13. Let's Get This Party Started - 3:41
14. Wish You Could Be Me - 1:07
15. Counting - 3:37
16. Dirty - 7:50

reception

The Metal-Hammer editorial team thinks Issues is “brilliant”, wrote Claudia Nitsche in her Korn story in issue 12/1999. A few pages further on, it was named “Album of the Month”, whereby Nitsche stated that although a gear had been downshifted, it was “breathtaking”. In Visions magazine, Maik Koltermann described the choice of producer O'Brien as a real “stroke of luck” and the album as a “masterpiece”: “If Follow the Leader was already a high-altitude flight for the band that seemed hard to beat, the atmospheric density seems to be Album to almost fade the predecessor. ”Marcel Anders certified Korn in the Zillo “ courage to take risks ”. The band is becoming "bulkier, more compact and more and more depressed from album to album". Issues is "the ultimate climax", a guarantee of success is that the lyrics meet the feelings of American youth. In Rock Hard, Michael Rensen complained that Korn had become "tame and a little sluggish". The “satisfaction that tens of millions of sold CDs bring with them” can be felt, the “self-destructive aura” of the earlier works has been lost in favor of “almost psychedelic soul trips”. It was enough for him to get seven out of ten points. On the website Allmusic .com Stephen Thomas Erlewine saw the record as less “daring” than its predecessor, but it shows the band's “pure, raw power” better than that. The rating was 3.5 out of five stars.

Awards for music sales

Country / Region	Award	Sales
Awards for music sales (country / region, Award, Sales)
Australia (ARIA)	2 × platinum	140,000
Germany (BVMI)	gold	250,000
Canada (MC)	2 × platinum	200,000
New Zealand (RMNZ)	platinum	15,000
Netherlands (NVPI)	gold	50,000
Poland (ZPAV)	gold	50,000
United States (RIAA)	3 × platinum	3,000,000
United Kingdom (BPI)	gold	100,000
All in all	4 × gold 8 × platinum	3,805,000

Web links

• Issues at Allmusic (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} www.allmusic.com: Review Issues by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
2. ↑ ^{a b} www.visions.de: Review Issues by Maik Koltermann
3. ↑ Wolf Kohl: Korn. Voices in the head . In: Metal Hammer . January 2000, p. 80 f .
4. ↑ ^{a b} www.allmusic.com: biography Korn by Jason Ankeny
5. ↑ Claudia Nitsche: Korn. Leader! Show-off! Freak show !? In: Metal Hammer . December 1999, p. 22nd ff .
6. ↑ Claudia Nitsche: Korn. Issues . In: Metal Hammer . December 1999, album of the month, p. 82 .
7. ↑ Marcel Anders: Korn. Freaks 'r' Us . In: Zillo . Music magazine. (December / January, 1999/2000), pp. 34 .
8. ↑ Michael Rensen: Korn. Issues . In: Rock Hard . No. 151 , December 1999, p. 104 f .
9. ↑ Award in Australia
10. ↑ Award in Germany
11. ↑ Award in Canada
12. ↑ Award in New Zealand
13. ↑ in the Netherlands  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
14. ↑ in Poland
15. ↑ Distinction in the United States
16. ↑ Award in the United Kingdom