With new fans aboard, Korn show how to metal in middle age
walked offstage from its sold-out co-headline set with Alice in Chains. The five members were sweaty but relaxed, freshly changed from their all-black denim and leather stage outfits into all-black sweatpants and T-shirts.
Korn in 2013, from left: Ray Luzier, James"Munky" Shaffer, Jonathan Davis, Brian"Head" Welch and Reginald Arvizu. Korn, founded in nearby Bakersfield, was one of the biggest bands in the world in the late ‘90s, with the two No. 1 albums and seven more top-five albums. Songs like “Freak on a Leash” and “Got the Life” regularly did battle with Backstreet Boys, ‘N Sync and Britney Spears for “TRL” dominance. But after a long, turbulent midperiod defined by heavy drinking and drug use, guitarist Brian “Head” Welch quit the band, turning to evangelical Christianity. .
Today, if you peruse Gen Z-beloved resale sites like Depop, you’ll find dozens of “Follow the Leader”-era tour tees sold by fans who were barely alive back then. Rappers like Curry and the British throat-shredder Scarlxrd saw through nu-metal’s dated connotations to rediscover the power that lies at the center of heavy metal and rap’s rhythm. Eilish’s drapey-‘90s fashion and fluency with rap beats, nightmarish imagery and digitally tangled vocals draw from Korn at its commercial peak.
“The Nothing” is his first music to grapple with that loss, and though it’s often alluded to rather than depicted, lyrics from “Finally Free” like “Where are you now? / I tried to get through to you, nothing is saving you / How could I fail? / This life betrayed you, and you are finally free” show a singer grappling with perhaps the deepest, most confounding loss of his life. Sometimes it resulted in literal, live-to-tape tears in his Bakersfield studio.
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