The band toured behind the album on the Sick & Twisted Tour with Staind, P.O.D., Papa Roach, and Powerman 5000. Featuring the singles 'Falling Away from Me,' 'Make Me Bad,' and 'Somebody Someone,' Issues continued Korn's dominance on MTV, rock radio, and the Billboard charts, debuting at number one. Follow the Leader eventually went quintuple platinum and sold over ten-million copies worldwide.Īfter capping off their summer with a slot on the main stage of Woodstock '99, they began promotion for their fourth effort, Issues. That same year, the band kicked off the inaugural stint of their Family Values tour, featuring a lineup that consisted of friends and contemporaries Limp Bizkit, rapper Ice Cube, German industrial metal band Rammstein, and the first signees to Davis' imprint Elementree Records, Orgy. The album debuted atop the Billboard 200, spawning the hit singles 'Got the Life' and 'Freak on a Leash.' They won a Grammy for the 'Freak on a Leash' video and, among the boy bands and pop starlets, conquered MTV's Total Request Live. In 1998, Korn released Follow the Leader, their biggest release to date. The album featured 'A.D.I.D.A.S.' and a cover of Ice Cube's 'Wicked' with Deftones frontman Chino Moreno. The band's 1996 Grammy-nominated follow-up, Life Is Peachy, was a more immediate smash, reaching the number three spot on the pop album charts.

With a relentless tour schedule that included stints opening for Ozzy Osbourne, Megadeth, Marilyn Manson, and 311, the record slowly but steadily rose in the charts, eventually going gold on the back of hit single 'Blind.' Combining dark lyrical content about child abuse, molestation, discrimination, and drug addiction with hip-hop influences and downtuned guitar sludge, Korn were unintentionally at the forefront of the movement that would be dubbed nu-metal. They recorded their demo, Neidermayer's Mind, in 1993 with producer Ross Robinson (Deftones, Limp Bizkit, Slipknot), who would go on to be one of the most sought-after rock producers of the late '90s and early aughts.Īfter signing to Epic's Immortal imprint, they issued their debut self-titled album in late 1994. They soon asked Davis to join the band, and upon his arrival the quintet rechristened itself Korn. After issuing an LP in 1993, the members of LAPD crossed paths with Jonathan Davis, a mortuary science student moonlighting as the lead vocalist for the local group Sexart. The group began their existence as the Bakersfield, California-based metal band LAPD, which included guitarists James 'Munky' Shaffer and Brian 'Head' Welch, bassist Reginald 'Fieldy' Arvizu, and drummer David Silveria. The band approached their third decade together as a unit in 2022 with their fourteenth album, Requiem. As the 2010s came to a close, Korn showed no signs of settling into a comfort zone The Paradigm Shift, The Serenity of Suffering, and The Nothing all furthered their sonic development as they attained elder-statesmen status. After a few directional detours at the close of the 2000s, they made a turn into the electronic world, hiring dance acts including Skrillex to help produce the dubstep-blasted The Path of Totality in 2011. rock acts into the 2000s, issuing a string of platinum-certified albums: Untouchables (2002), Take a Look in the Mirror (2003), and See You on the Other Side (2005).

Just four years after emerging, they had a number one release: the blockbuster Follow the Leader, home to 'Freak on a Leash' and 'Got the Life.' Closing the decade atop the charts with Issues, Korn remained one of the biggest U.S. (They even managed to make scatting and bagpipes - Davis' signature instrument - menacing.) Their landmark 1994 debut Korn built an underground audience for its follow-up, 1996's Life Is Peachy, which launched the band from the lower reaches of the charts into the Top Three. At the forefront of the nu-metal/rap-rock movement of the time, they quickly evolved, developing a trademark style that incorporated downtuned guitars, a groove-heavy rhythm section, haunted atmospheric production, and dark lyrics courtesy of frontman Jonathan Davis, who grappled with common themes such as childhood trauma, destructive behavior, and inner demons. Korn's cathartic sound positioned the group as one of the most popular and provocative acts to emerge during the 1990s.

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