Music DVD. It goes right off the KoB!
Publisher: Sony
Thu, 1 January 1970
by: Fazz
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“Yo, This is the new KoRn Video, Check it out!” yells KoRn’s frontman Jonathon Davis as you play the main title of this excellent DVD. KoRn’s “Deuce” is truly a masterpiece of the DVD format. It blends an imaginative and extremely complex menu systems with two full-length feature videos and innumerable easter-egg bonus features seamlessly into what some have described as possibly the best music DVD to date.
This DiSk (that spelling is me trying to be funny again- Sammy) can hardly be described as “Just another music DVD”. The whole package reminds me more of playing Resident Evil on the PSX back in the day than of any music DVD I’ve ever seen. As you play the disk you’re introduced to the scene of this DVD, an apparently abandoned old psychiatric asylum littered with maggots, blood, dirt and filth. You’re point-of-view is wheeled into the first room on a stretcher with two extremely corpse-like feet hanging off the end of it. From here you have a few choices: You may play the newest KoRn video “Deuce” in it’s entirety, or if you want some old-skool KoRn, you may play the full version of their 1997 video release “Who, Then, Now”. From this starting point you may also head off in any number of directions down rusted pipes, corridors or broken windows. The choices are endless.
“Deuce” as a band video is quite entertaining. KoRn have taken the ideas used in “Who, Then, Now” and expanded exponentially on them. It follows them through the recording processes of every album from “Life is Peachy” up until “Issues”. The studios, the producers, the guest performers, the instruments and processes, everything! You then get the chance to follow the guys out on the road for their live tours. The hours, the days, the weeks… all of it is captured on digital video for the fan to peruse at their leisure.
Each music video and single released during these 3 albums is explored in-depth. The shooting, the recording, the concepts, from go-to-whoa. No stone is left unturned in this department. Also included is the full-length, uncut versions of each music video described. And to finish up this segment of the DVD is KoRn’s stirring performance of “Blind” recorded live at Woodstock ’99, probably, in my opinion, the most ball-busting opening track EVER! It leaves you with a shiver down your spine.
Also featured on this DVD is their 1997 video “Who, Then, Now”. I went a purchased the VHS tape of this video back in ’97 after KoRn’s brilliant live performance at Melbourne’s Festival Hall. I was so impressed. This video shows the band during their post-debut album period where they’d just gotten off tour and were proceeding to record their second full-length album “Life is Peachy”. As far as this video goes it’s features are quite similar to that of “Deuce”, it has the studio time, the drinking, the partying and silliness and all the music videos released as singles from the band’s brilliant debut self-titled release. Of course the budget is less and it’s a bit gritty and under-produced, but this is one of the things which made me fall in love with KoRn in the first place.
This DVD has the best example of a multimedia menu system I’ve ever seen. Some films have a similar system but nothing else even comes close. The main menu system consists of a convoluted set of passageways, pipes, doors and puzzles that lead you all over this asylum in search of more KoRn goodies. Like I said earlier, it reminds me of playing Resident Evil in the way that to access certain areas and to view certain videos you must unlock complicated puzzles and navigate your way through a maze of tunnels to get to what you want. Fortunately the answers to all the puzzles are shown on the inside cover of the DVD, and if you’re web-inclined (you wouldn’t be here if you weren’t), you can download the map to the entire menu system from www.korn.com. Be warned though… the menu is bigger than you think!
Bonus Features:
What this DVD doesn’t lack (if it lacks anything at all) is bonus content. In the previously described menu system you can navigate your way through the maze to unlock more and more bonus features and cleverly hidden easter eggs. In one room you may find 10 or more bonus little videos to whet your appetite for extra footage. Everything is here, tour footage, studio footage, basketball footage, and of course, Drinking Footage! What KoRn video would be complete without it?
Video:
The video quality on this disk is quite normal for a music DVD. By that I mean that the majority of it doesn’t look like a multi-million $$$ blockbuster. Bands on the road are forced to document footage with handicams and the like. For a NTSC disk it is quite sharp and free from the aliasing problems that sometimes plague this format.
Audio:
For the most part this DVD features only Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo. Again, it comes down to the media that the footage is recorded on to begin with. With the notable exception of the main title, “Deuce”. It boasts an impressive Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack that will literally make your walls shake with KoRn’s downtuned rocking!
Overall:
In short… if you’re a KoRn fan and don’t own this DVD, go and buy it before your friends find out and beat you up for being so absent-minded. It’s a total package of what a full multimedia DVD should be. It has it all. Never mind the fact I’m a huge KoRn fan, I think most music DVD fans can enjoy this disk without a doubt. Also, a special thanks has to go out to one of our talented web techs Ando, who put me onto KoRn way back in ’96. Thanks mate!
by: Fazz
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