“Blind” by Korn

"Blind" kicks off Korn's self-titled 1994 debut, and the song was already half-built before the band got hold of it: Jonathan Davis wrote it while he was still in Sexart and carried it with him when he left to join Korn. The composing credit lists Dennis Shinn and Ryan Shuck alongside Fieldy, Head, Munky and David Silveria, with Davis on words.

Korn's contribution was the frame. They bolted on a long intro, a sped-up take on the drum opening of Primus's "Too Many Puppies", cymbals hissing and a little bass line creeping in, before Sexart's original intro drops like a trapdoor; they tweaked the music under the chorus and sent it out on a bass coda that quotes Cypress Hill's "Lick a Shot". Ross Robinson produced and recorded it, mixing with engineer Chuck Johnson, and kept every nerve raw. Revolver later counted it among metal's greatest album openers.

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