10 Musicians Who Hid Original Tracks In Your Favourite Games

9. Korn - Haze

Free RadicalFree RadicalWhen Ubisoft decided to release a first person shooter for the PS3 by the team behind TimeSplitters, people were pretty excited. Sony proclaimed this as their 'Halo killer', as they previously did with Killzone, but to be fair to Sony these guys had helmets with visors too, so the comparison was slightly more apt. The problem was, once the game came out everyone realised it was utterly abysmal, therefore Ubisoft had to suddenly come up with a way to drown out the negative reviews and wave of bad press the game was receiving, and get Haze's name out there - and that's where Korn came in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IssLAON48s As one of the finest nu-metal bands ever, you would have thought you could at least expect the game's song to be good though...right? Korn were going through a difficult transitionary phase at the time, as key songwriter and lead guitarist Brian 'Head' Welch had left the band to find Jesus (seriously). This resulted in not only one of Korn's worst songs, but arguably one of the worst metal songs of all time. The chorus sucks, the riffs are barely there and guitarist Munky pulls out one of the worst solos to ever grace mankind. It's probably best if both the song and the game are swept under a rug and never spoken of again.
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Having written for Official Playstation Mag, Godisageek and obviously What Culture. Tom is a London based writer who loves him some games. You may also find his articles lurking in the film and comic sections on rare occasions.