The Serenity of Suffering
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October 21, 2016 |
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40:36 / 48:54 / 52:20 |
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The Serenity of Suffering ( English for " the serenity of suffering ") is the twelfth studio album of American nu-metal - band Korn . It was released on October 21, 2016 on the Roadrunner Records label.
production
The Serenity of Suffering was produced by the American music producer Nick Raskulinecz .
Cover design
The album cover shows a child wearing a blue hoody with the band's logo Korn in black on the back . It looks over its shoulder at the viewer and drags a zombie-like plush toy (which already graced the cover of the album Issues ) behind it. In the foreground there are more cuddly toys and dolls on the floor, while in the background a hype with children's carousels can be seen.
Guest Posts
The only guest appearance on the album comes from Corey Taylor , singer of the nu-metal band Slipknot , who can be heard on the song A Different World .
Track list
| # | title | length |
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| 1 | Insane | 3:50 |
| 2 | Rotting in Vain | 3:33 |
| 3 | Black is the soul | 4:01 |
| 4th | The hating | 4:22 |
| 5 | A Different World ( feat.Corey Taylor ) | 3:20 |
| 6th | Take me | 3:00 |
| 7th | Everything Falls Apart | 4:17 |
| 8th | The Yet Another Night | 4:28 |
| 9 | When you're not there | 3:24 |
| 10 | Next in line | 3:28 |
| 11 | Please come for me | 2:53 |
Deluxe Edition Bonus Songs:
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| 12 | infant | 4:55 |
| 13 | Calling Me Too Soon | 3:23 |
Japanese Deluxe Edition Bonus Song:
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| 14th | Out of you | 3:26 |
Chart successes and singles
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The Serenity of Suffering entered the German album charts at number 3 on October 28, 2016 and stayed in the top 100 for five weeks.
On July 22, 2016, the song Rotting in Vain was released as the first single . In addition, the songs Insane , A Different World and Take Me were published in advance on the Internet. Music videos were also made for all four titles . A video for Black Is the Soul was also released in June 2017 .
reception
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| Metacritic | 67% |
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| Central Bavarian | (excellent) |
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Professional reviews were largely positive; the album achieved a metascore of 67% based on nine reviews.
The Metal Hammer rated The Serenity of Suffering with six out of a possible seven points. The editor Matthias Weckmann describes several songs on the album as "the top quality league in the Korn values canon" and says that the band "has not shown its own strengths so consistently for a good 15 years". Nadine Schmidt from metal.de attested: "KORN travel with“ The Serenity Of Suffering ”back to the future".
However, there were sometimes much more critical reviews such as Rolling Stone and the website laut.de , which gave the album only two out of a possible five points. Laut.de editor Alex Klug thinks that the songs hardly differ from the band's earlier works and describes the sound carrier as a "lifeless result of a Frankenstein operation made from lavish three-tone refrains".
Individual evidence
- ↑ album cover
- ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH
- ↑ Chart tracking The Serenity of Suffering on officialcharts.de
- ↑ Rating: metacritic.com
- ↑ Rating: The Guardian
- ↑ a b Evaluation: laut.de
- ↑ Rating: metal.de
- ↑ a b Evaluation: Metal Hammer
- ↑ Rating: Central Bavarian ( Memento of the original from November 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Rating: Rolling Stone
- ↑ Rating: allmusic.com
- ↑ Rating: metacritic.com
- ^ Korn - The Serenity Of Suffering Review • metal.de . In: metal.de . ( metal.de [accessed June 20, 2017]).
- ↑ Rating: Rolling Stone
