Korn – Live At The Hollywood Palladium

A release with all the ingrediënts to be a must-have:

- It was the release party for their groundbreaking album The Path Of Totality, which mixes dubsteb with metal.
- The show actually features Wes Geer from Hed(PE) on guitar and has most of the collaboration dj's of the album present performing live on stage (most notably Skrillex joining on guitar for 2 tracks)
- Performing dubsteb combined with metal onstage is a huge risk to take.
- Performing "Predictable" from their first album is pretty cool.

Than why was it not?

- The dvd features a lot of camera footage from a distance. Due to this you can hardly make out Skrillex on stage.
- The sound is badly tuned on some songs. Guitars that should be in the background are so present you can hardly hear the rest, the vocals are often way to soft. Also the footage and sound are not well synchronized, maybe this is why the camera footage is from a distance. You can clearly see this if you pay attention to the drummer on some songs. On "Freak On A Leash" the sound is messed up, you hear everything twice, thats a big mistake to make on a dvd release, especcially for a 25 euro priced one. The audience could be tuned-down a bit.
- The lighting on the heavy songs are so stroboscobic (flashing) you can hardly keep your eyes on it.

All and all Korn's performance is very good. Especcially the dubstep part they pulled off very well. I would have liked seeing them do a couple of more rare songs as they did on other parts of their "Path Of Totality" tour. The bad quality and overdone light show makes me skip some songs and I think that's a lost chance on this release.

So final judgement: Great show. Editing/mixing could have been better.