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Korn<\/a><\/strong> has gone from being n\u00fc-metal pariahs in the 2010s to be rightfully praised in recent years. One such praise comes from All That Remains<\/a><\/strong> vocalist Phil Labonte<\/strong> during an interview with Joshua Toomey<\/strong>, and it’s\u2026 totally correct.<\/p>\n In the interview, Labonte<\/strong> cites Korn<\/a><\/strong> as one of the big drivers behind modern deathcore bands and their penchant for slower, beefier breakdowns. And sure, Korn<\/a><\/strong> isn’t the only one \u2013 bands like Earth Crisis<\/a><\/strong>, Meruader<\/a><\/strong>, and Antagony<\/a><\/strong> deserve credit as well; maybe even a little Suffocation<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 but they definitely should be in the conversation.<\/p>\n “\u2026One of the weird things, was in the 90s when Korn<\/a><\/strong> came out, like, they had a massive impact. Clearly. I mean, that’s obvious, but I don’t know if people today understand exactly how impactful Korn<\/a><\/strong> was back then. Like when they hit, metal bands that were riff-heavy metal bands, they were like, ‘Well, that’s a new kind of heavy.’<\/p>\n “And it was something that people wanted to emulate. And without Korn<\/a><\/strong>, I don’t think you get deathcore bands that you have today. Like, I think that they had a really, really strong influence on what heavy music; what it meant to make heavy music and what was heavy, right. Like the breakdown and downbeat stuff. There was some of that stuff in death metal before Korn<\/a><\/strong> and in metal before Korn<\/a><\/strong>. But Korn<\/a><\/strong> really brought that kind of out.<\/p>\n “And I don’t even know that you would have metalcore breakdowns that you do without bands like Korn<\/a><\/strong>. I’m not sure, maybe you do. But I’m not sure. But one of the things that did happen is, when I was in a band that was playing death metal and they were like, ‘We want to start doing that kind of stuff.’<\/p>\n “And so I was like, ‘No. I don’t want to.’ I was like, ‘I want to play metal, like regular, like thrashy’\u2026 Because even still if you listen to All That Remains<\/a><\/strong>, All That Remains<\/a><\/strong> isn’t a breakdown band, we’re a riff band. And that’s kind of the way that I’ve always been. I like heavy riffs and I do like breakdowns. But our breakdowns are not the super, super chuggy \u2014 and we don’t rely on the breakdowns.”<\/p>\n \n