During the month of August Amazon has not 100, but 1000 albums for $5 each in MP3 format

Korn‘s third album, the breakthrough Follow The Leader is part of the deal and you can pick it up (well, download it) for only $5 (the CD is available for $8.55).

Containing the essential Korn tracks like “Freak On A Leash” and “Got The Life,” lead singer Jonathan Davis was at his darkest most introspective best with the haunting “Pretty” and “Dead Bodies Everywhere.” The clacking slap-bass of Reginald “˜Fieldy’ Arvizu, the heavy, abrasive guitars of Brian “˜Head’ Welch and James “˜Munky’ Shaffer and the crushing drums of David Silveria really came together for their best album. Korn was trying to regenerate metal and further the influences of hip hop within the genre and came up with a monster of an album.

Browse all 1,000 albums on sale this month for only $5 each, as well as several albums on sale this week for only $2.99 each.

The MP3 album deal of the day over at Amazon today is Korn‘s The Path Of Totality for only $3.99.

For the sale price, you get 11 songs, some of which feature artists like Skrillex, Flinch, and Noisia.

If you’d like a physical copy of The Path Of Totality, the CD version is $13.85, while the CD+DVD version is $16.60.

Amazon currently has 100 MP3 Albums For $5 Each for the month of December 2011, so today’s the last day to grab the items in this sale. There’s plenty of great music from artists like Nine Inch Nails, Dio, Beck, Bruce Springsteen, and more, as well as soundtracks for Tron: Legacy and Book Of Mormon.

Below is a sample of some of the albums in this $5 sale, so grab it now before it’s over at 11:59pm PST tonight!

– Green Day – Insomniac
– Daft Punk – Tron: Legacy Reconfigured
– The Offspring – Greatest Hits
– The Book Of Mormon – Original Broadway Cast Recording
– Flight of the Conchords – I Told You I Was Freaky
– Bruce Springsteen – Greatest Hits
– Nine Inch Nails – The Downward Spiral
– Beck – Odelay
– Dio – Holy Diver
– Korn – Korn III: Remember Who You Are

The official website for Gibson guitars has released what they perceive to be the top 50 metal songs of all time. Gibson.com’s writers and editors worked on compiling the list over several weeks, releasing 10 entries at a time, and recently released the top 10, which declared the number one metal song to be “Master of Puppets” by Metallica.

In some ways, the number one spot for Metallica is fitting, considering 2011 is the 25th anniversary of the release of their Master of Puppets album. Having said that though, metalheads are notorious for having fierce and strong opinions about what they consider to be their “top songs,” on top of their fierce and strong opinions about what bands are or are not even metal.

Time to put the “X in Sex” and explode with a “Sonic Boom” like the “God of Thunder” — the band KISS is releasing new KISS Kondoms for fans to stay safe when they’re taking their significant others for a “Rocket Ride.”

Apologies for the song title puns used here, but c’mon… this is KISS and it’s a story about Gene Simmons pimping out some condoms — I just couldn’t help myself.

The difference with this release of KISS Kondoms is that they have pictures on them, which is kind of odd when you think about where these things are going to end up when you’re done using them.