10 Perfect Rock Frontmen Of The 90s

10. Jonathan Davis - Korn

When you look back on the initial surge of nu metal bands, it's hard to not cringe just a little bit. While some of them may have indeed had some legitimate pain behind their lyrics, some of the songs ventured more on the side of whiny than actually saying something meaningful. There was a dark side to the genre though, and Jonathan Davis knew it all too well.

From the very first Korn record onward, Davis was the epitome of what you thought of as the tortured heavy metal vocalist. On songs like Blind, you can hear him basically talking to himself, almost like he's a prisoner in a mental institution that's been let out of a cage to front a metal band for a couple of hours. As the years go by though, Davis has done a lot to refine his anger over the years.

While ignoring some of the more aged sides of their catalog, Davis has put a lot of genuine terror into some of his songs, from the wordless chant in the middle of Freak on a Leash to actually having a full blown breakdown in the vocal booth when recording the vocals for the song Daddy off of their self titled record. Though you're not really guaranteed to have the best of times whenever you listen to Korn's music, the off kilter weirdness of Davis tells you that there'll never be a dull moment either.