 In their original 1994 review , the Los Angeles Times wrote " Kindred to such bands as Tool , Rollins Band and Rage Against the Machine , Korn and its singer @-@ lyricist , Jonathan Davis , make their core ethic fairly explicit in songs like " Predictable , " " Lies " and " Fake " : the world is a torment @-@ filled morass that leaves us seething with deep , internalized fears ; virtue lies in confronting those painful truths unflinchingly and screaming them to the world . " 
