I had been waiting for this record an eternity and I rushed to buy it the very morning it was published. The first time I listened to it, I was very disappointed. All of the songs seemed to sound the same as the previous ones. But as I listened to it more and more I noticed how good it really is. You have to give it a few listens before you can get into it. This certainly isn't anything like issues or follow the leader, it's more like their first album (except this time around they know what they're doing). There are many hard, heavy and melodic songs like Embrace and Bottled Up Inside, and almost every track has beautiful melody over the chorus. There are still a couple of tracks that I do not like (Make Believe, Beat It Upright & Wake Up Hate), for they lack the melody that makes this cd good. I just think this is by far the best album KoRn has made, but the most hard to get into.