Music Is My Weapon

Korn is releasing a new album called See You On the Other Side. It becomes avalible on December 6th, placing it at direct compitition with Eminem's new CD. The Explicit Lyrics note promises it will be everything we've expected from Korn in the past. On the other hand, we see that it is still Virgin Records, still produced by the same guys, and still written by the same people, so we wonder if there is a hint of "just another korn cd" element. Then again Korn has never been just-another as it has pioneered the Heavy Pop-Rock Rap genre for some time. No matter the result, this next notch in the Kornography collection is sure to live up to the expectations set by the previous albums. Don't believe me? Enough people have preordered this to make it #118 in Sales rank 12 days before it is released, so there's something the masses know that we don't.

System of a Down is following suit with their new album Hypnotize. This album is a very definite shove in a new direction, even from Mezermize. Most of the songs are slower and more melodic, however there's still hints of disarray in songs lik Attack. The one thing that probably bothered me the bost about this CD, was the song structure remained the same for most of the songs, and they were very uneventful at that. The vocal work itself worked out very well for both Daron and Serj, but some people have complained that Daron's work left room for improvement.
The key songs to hear are "Dreaming," "Tentative," "Holy Mountains," and "Soldier Side," but make sure you listen to the entire album straight. The CD as a whole is very well put together. When you are done, make sure you have some Disney music laying around to cheer you up after listening to Soldier Side, the last song on the album.

In another chapter of Eminem's pseudo story line CD releases, Curtain Call is being released on December 6, 2005. I have not heard it yet, but everyone is pre ordering it, so it looks like it's going to be good.