Music and Lyrical Themes
Life Is Peachy opens with the forty-nine second prelude "Twist". The track's vocal style is called Scat, or vocal improvisation with random vocables and nonsense syllables or without words at all. Doug Small described the singing as "spitting out the twisted rantings of a madman," and said that it was fit for the album's introduction. An a cappella version of "Twist" is included as a hidden track after "Kill You". "K@#Ø%!"'s concept was explained by bassist Reginald "Fieldy" Arvizu, "when you were a kid and you heard the f-word in a song, you'd rewind it a hundred times just to hear them say it. So we just said 'Let's put as many cuss words in one song as we could possibly do,' and I guarantee little kids that are fuckin' ten years old are freaking out about that song. They're freaking out." "A.D.I.D.A.S." is an Acronym for "All Day I Dream About Sex".
The album spans several genres, including nu metal, rap metal, and alternative metal. Sputnikmusic said that the band takes "take the sound they established on their self titled debut and push it in a darker and, on occasion, more humorous direction." Tower Records said that the album was "full of shrilly, distorted guitar squeals, bass-heavy darkness and laryngitis-inducing growls," while considering the album to mix the genres thrash metal, hip hop, punk rock, funk, and humor.
The album incorporates minor hip hop elements, which were not present on the band's self-titled debut album, with James "Munky" Shaffer recalling "We were listening to a lot of hip hop, I was probably listening to a lot of Mr. Bungle, hip hop like early Outkast and The Pharcyde, Sepultura records, and Rage Against the Machine, just to name a few." The band would further explore hip hop on their next album Follow the Leader.
Q Magazine said that the album was both harsh and hard, and Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic said that the album's rhythms were "straight out of underground black metal," while also noting that it "enhanced their metallic influences." With the same band-line up as their previous album, the band created an album considered to be darker than their debut album. Entertainment Weekly considered the album to be of interest to "mental-health professionals." Jon Pareles stated that the album's themes characterize Korn being "Mad at Everybody, Including Themselves". iTunes said Life Is Peachy was "a barrage of throttling, detuned guitar aggression that erupts from the bottom like molten lava."
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