10 Songs That Changed Rock History

10. Blind - Korn

Before 1994, the term nu metal wasn't all that much of a thing. Though we did have some blending of rap and rock from people like Rage Against the Machine at the time, we wouldn't see the likes of Deftones and Limp Bizkit come into their own until much later. Once we heard Blind though, people started to put the pieces together.

Granted, most of Korn's self titled release could have made this list, being the archetype of what would become the nu metal album. The reason why Blind gets the spot here though was because of its first exposure to MTV. With a twisted music video to boot, this was a lot of fans' first taste of this sort of moody introspection being played with a lot of aggression.

Even though we had gotten used to people like Zack De La Rocha spewing his venom at crooked cops, the tone of Jonathan Davis' voice was something strange for the time, sounding almost like a patient in a mental institution in the verses before absolutely exploding when the choruses come back up. Across every second, it feels like each member has the potential to lose their minds at any moment. Little did we know that this was just the beginning of angst taking over the metal scene.