Check out Korn at the Prudential Center on Monday, September 23rd!
If you haven’t listened to Korn—you’re missing out on some amazing heavy music, with tracks like “Freak On a Leash” (1998) and “Coming Undone” (2005), and with the amount of music they have, it’s almost hard to say you haven’t listened to anything they’ve put out. Since the band’s conception in 1993, Korn has curated an extensive discography and quite the name for themselves. Drawing inspiration from bands like Pantera, Nine Inch Nails, and Alice in Chains, the band helped to solidify and pioneer the genre of nu-metal, and led it to the mainstream media in the 90’s. Their signature sound came from compiling brash musicality with conventional hip-hop lyrics about alienation and loneliness.
The band hails from Bakersfield, California—after a previous band known as L.A.P.D. had disbanded, Korn was formed with 3 remaining members. Korn’s is currently comprised of five members, including founders, James “Munky” Shaffer, Reginald “Fieldy” Arvizu, Brian “Head” Welch, and later additions, Ray Luzier and Jonathan Davis.
Korn’s rise to success really proceeded their self-titled, debut album in 1994, as previously mentioned, it broke ground for a new genre, so it was considered a commercial success. But looking where they’ve come, the three albums that came after are still some of the top selling metal albums to date, including Life is Peachy (1996), Follow the Leader (1998), and Issues (1999), all making it within the top 5 of the Billboard 200. Korn’s accomplishments don’t stop there, their first 7 studio albums also hit platinum at least once, with Follow the Leader hitting 5x Platinum Certified by RIAA, and have won 88 awards from Grammys and MTV to Billboard.
The legacy Korn will leave impacts anyone who has listened to their music. They have and will continue to inspire many to branch out to try and create something new, including artists and bands that formed like Coal Chamber, Limp Bizkit, and System of the Down. And well-known existing bands like Slipknot and Machine Head took from what Korn had created with nu-metal and assisted in making the genre popular.
As of most recent, Korn released their latest album in February of 2022, and is finally set to tour around the world, starting July 2024 in Athens, Greece.
Tickets on sale now at ticketmaster.com.
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