The Paradigm Shift
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AllMusic
Rather than making a full-on return to the sort of guttural, shuddering sound the band made famous in the '90s, The Paradigm Shift is a much more driving and direct album. Replacing the sort of creeping, churning aggression that emanated from their earlier work is a newfound vigor.
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Blabbermouth.net
The first half of "The Paradigm Shift" putters about through their staple sounds, but all of it seems engineered as a focal point from which to blossom into their new dawn, capitalized by the second half of the album.
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Sputnikmusic
The accumulation of 20 years of professional musicianship, 10 studio albums and the return of Brian ‘Head’ Welch has brought us the latest and possibly greatest Korn album of all.
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Louder Than War
It is really hard to pick out the best tracks because each has something different, and equally awesome to offer.
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Rolling Stone
Here, the news is guitarist Brian “Head” Welch’s return after an eight-year absence, so we’re back to clicking bass, Jonathan Davis’ serial-killer voice and sheets of guitar.
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Ultimate-guitar.com
Korn fans will enjoy listening to a successful combination of their earliest successes and the redeeming features of their modern failures. Everyone else, it must be said, will be fairly nonplussed by "The Paradigm Shift," as it is neither a great triumph nor an amusing catastrophe.
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Bloody Disgusting
While there may not be any growth with The Paradigm Shift, at least they’ll always have a core audience. After all, there will always be angry, whiny teenagers to cater to.
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MetalSucks
So that wasn’t as bad as I feared it would be, but it certainly wasn’t good.
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Music Feeds
The Paradigm Shift is far from a radical change in the basic assumptions that fans make of their beloved nu-metal progenitors. Instead, on their eleventh studio album, Korn have managed to tap into what created those assumptions in the first place and dutifully deliver on every single one.
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The Lantern
In a sense the theme of album lies much deeper than the music; it’s about a group of friends reunited through strife. “The Paradigm Shift” can be viewed as a great step for the band, but more importantly the discovery of a long lost brother.
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Rock Sins
Whilst it’s not the best album Korn have ever released it’s still impressive that 11 albums into their career Korn can still release quality albums when so many bands from the 90s have just faded away. If anything The Paradigm Shift does a great job at showing that the Nu Metal revival is happening, whether you want it to or not.
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HTF Magazine
For fans of Korn, this will be something you definitely want to add to your collection. For others, the album will probably take a couple of listens to get over the repetitiveness of the record and get in to the individual songs.
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TUNED UP
The Paradigm Shift certainly has a few tracks that are skip-worthy, but the majority of the record is stellar. As a whole, the band’s latest release is undoubtedly one of (if not the best) since 1999’s Issues.
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Montreal Gazette
If you’re a fan of the California group’s most successful albums, you’ll find a lot to like here: the staccato riffs collapsing into E-strings downtuned into a black hole, the choruses that sound like Bush having an argument with a bass amp, singer Jonathan Davis’s weird death-metal scat.
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