KORN FRONTMAN JONATHAN Davis has a surprisingly clear memory of making Korn’s third album, 1998’s Follow The Leader. Surprising, because of the lifestyle he and his bandmates were living at the time.
“Everyone was out of their fucking minds,” recalls Jonathan today. “Alcoholic drug addicts… ha! I just remember all the excess: we’re kids, living our rock’n’roll dreams and having the time of our lives.”
By that point, Korn could do no wrong. The mutant metal/hip hop/funk mash-up of their self-titled 1994 debut album and 1996 follow-up Life Is Peachy had rewired heavy music, opening the door for an army of likeminded bands in the process, among them Deftones, Coal Chamber, Snot and Limp Bizkit.
Bacchanalian extravagances aside, the Bakersfield outfit weren’t about to rest on their laurels. hit the turbo button on their career, its out-of-the-box success transforming them from metal’s most talked-about new band into one of its biggest. And in the album’s second single, they delivered one of the recently christened
