Deftones or Korn

Deftones actually matured as a band.  Korn became basically the poster children for angsty teenagers.  So Korn gets treated as more of a "kids band," I guess you could say.  Although I do think that their self-titled is still better than anything Deftones has ever done, Deftones has the much better discography.

And if you've heard Korn's latest wanderings into dubstep territory, you'll know why people are getting on them.

Balthamel wrote: so why do people hate Korn but love Deftones

dreadpirateroberts wrote: For my money Deftones are stronger for sure, and I agree with Diogenes, they matured, Korn regressed somewhat.   Plus Deftones have a more experimental approach, and some of their albums will transend the era they were produced in, Korn's may not

Neither band really convinced me. I don't hate them, though, and I've actually seen them both live.

I never liked either, and still don't. I dislike Deftones more, as I did somewhat like See you on the other side. Korn's early stuff just annoys me to no end, especially that one song of theirs that starts with RRRRRRRRRRRRR  UUUUUUUUUUUU RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRREEEEAAADDDYYYYYYYYY.

I like both bands, but for their entire body of work I definitely prefer Deftones.  Their last album was my favorite release of 2012.

I go in phases with both. I have both loved and loathed each of them, but I'm a lot more familiar with Korn than Deftones.I think the reason that Deftones have more credibility is that they never exploded, and they never released any really bad albums. Korn make good songs, but bad albums. A lot of filler, a lot of questionable ideas, a lot of things that could be described as cheesy. Deftones more or less avoid cheesiness.

Also, I imagine that since Korn were a sort of giant, giant deal at one point, and Deftones sort of 'never got their due' it helps them in the respect stakes, knowing how Metal fans can be.

Love Korn, Deftones is meh. But put them together and you have Wicked from Life is Peachy which is great.

Edited by Unitron - 24 Mar 2022 at 1:24am

Deftones have done some great albums and I have 4 or so. Korn, I bought one many years ago and that was enough. Getting back to the original post I never saw any similarity between the bands but I haven't heard a lot of Korn so maybe they changed their sound since I  bought Follow The Leader.