Walking into the Verizon, I walked into the last part of the set from a band called 2 cents, and am glad I didn’t have to see more than I did. Their music wasn’t completely horrible, the guitarist put together some decent riffs and nice solos, but what killed them was the singer; he would go on and on running his mouth about bullshit.

I can understand a vocalist talking about their music, the tour or the obvious shout out to the fans, but this dude was just talking to hear himself talk. That shit got boring really fast. Its times like these when some opening band wants to come out and give attitude that I wish the crowd had megaphones or something so they could yell back and say “Shut the fuck up and play!”

Once all the talking was over they did finish with a nice cover of Pantera’s “Strength Beyond Strength”

Then, after the stage change and the lights went dark, which is always my favorite time during a show, just hearing and feeling all the people behind you yelling and screaming waiting to see someone walk out on stage, out comes new “official” Korn drummer Ray Luzier. He begins wailing on his kit for a seconds and then was quickly followed by silence. Munky and Fieldy walked out playing the music box sounding opening of “Falling Away from Me,” then, when the lights and guitars hit, here comes Jon Davis in his adidas track suit.

What had my attention for a minute was Munky’s outfit. He looked like some kind of super hero with a cape and painted on mask. Korn played well, but it seemed like a short set. They did hit crowd favorites like “Freak on a Leash”, “Got the Life”, “Did my Time” and “Coming Undone”. Also, we got to hear a few new tracks from their upcoming album “Korn III – Remember Who You Are.” They did “Oildale (Leave Me Alone)” and “Fear is a Place to Live.”

Munky had me laughing a few times during the show because he would go from this all serious look while playing to just staring people down all hard and then making some crazy face at them. Like I said before, it seemed like a really short set because they had only played maybe a little more than an hour when I heard the unmistakable sound of “Blind” which has been the closing song at every Korn show I had ever seen. So about that time I made my way out to avoid getting trampled by the kids on their way home. I enjoyed the show but the last few times I have seen Korn, it just seemed like something was missing.

I dug the new stuff I got to hear, it did have the old school Korn sound to it as I had been hearing they were going for on this album, but in a sense, it made me miss the old Korn shows I had seen in my younger days. Back when they still had their full band with Dave Silvera on drums and Head on guitar. There was a dynamic about them on stage all together that’s not there anymore. Don’t get me wrong their show was good but it’s just not the same

I remember seeing Korn at the old Abyss on Washington with the Deftones not long after their first self-titled album had come out. Hearing something that, at the time, wasn’t being done by a lot of bands, the heavy bass lines and down tuned guitars that gave their music a darker sound. As much as I have always hated the term “Nu Metal,” their sound, along with bands coming up around that time, helped with the progression of rock and metal in a way that is still heard today