Today’s guest is Emmet Penney, a writer whose work I edited when I worked for Invisible Oranges. Recently one of Emmet’s best articles, about the material conditions that led to Nu-metal’s popularity, started to make the rounds on Twitter. Around the same time I was doing a deep dive into the discography of Korn, the band that inarguably made nu-metal a trend in the 1990s. The timing felt fortuitous, so I reached out to Emmet and asked him if he wanted to talk about Korn at length for the podcast. Our ensuing conversation is in part a summary of Emmet’s original article as well as our collective analysis of Korn’s impact and importance to the American cultural landscape in the late 20th century.
You can find Emmet's original article and his Medium below:
http://www.invisibleoranges.com/life-is-peachy-nu-metal-and-america/
https://medium.com/@DumbAristotle
