10 Metal Songs That Are Ridiculously Long

Before Korn, there was no real idea of what nu metal actually was. Though there may have been bands like Pantera that relied on groove in their music and Rage Against the Machine bringing hip hop flows into the mix, the low tunings and the screams of Jonathan Davis were where everything started to click, tapping into inner pain that no one was really willing to go in the mid ‘90s.

We already knew that Jonathan had some issues to work out, but he let himself go to the brink of self destruction on Daddy. After hearing songs like Blind and Shoots and Ladders, the final track on their debut is about as dark as it gets, as Jonathan describes his experience with abuse that he suffered with as a child. When Davis tried to get help at a young age, his parents initially didn’t believe him, leading to him bottling up all of these emotions inside and finally letting them out on this song.

As the first section of the song ends with Jonathan getting more and more distraught, the back half is where things get a lot more real, where Jonathan verbally rips his abuser to shreds, all while breaking down and crying as the tape rolled, only to cut to a violent domestic abuser tacked on at the end as a secret track. The entire creation of the track was fairly tense as well, with the rest of the band embracing Jonathan after the take was finished to bring him back down to Earth. Korn was already a tight knit band, but going through trauma like this together turned them into a nu metal brotherhood.