10 Amazing Rock Albums That You Didn't Know Were About Drugs

10. Korn - Korn

There's no way of copying the sounds of Korn's debut. Being ground zero for the sounds of nu metal, this was just the result of the band getting as heavy as they could while Jonathan Davis poured out his inner torment on every single track. If you want an answer to why it sounds as dark as it does though, the answer is meth. A looooot of meth.

When Davis looks back on this era of the band, this is around the time where he was really strung out on the stuff, and often ended up putting that kind of imagery into every single song that he sang. As much as it shouldn't work, the paranoia that comes with being out of your mind actually helped a lot of these songs, giving you the impression that Davis was like a patient that had been locked in a mental institution before deciding to start a nu metal band.

In the years since then, Jonathan has said that he has gotten clean from most of the stuff, with his vocals during the later years getting worse and worse because of him being messed up when it came time to track the songs. In that respect though, Korn's debut isn't just another dark as hell metal album from the '90s. Considering the massive amounts of crystal that came from this, it's a lot more violent and disturbed than you probably gave it credit for.