“We blew this whole scene open, I don’t care what anybody says. We did all the work, and now all these other bands are popping up”: How Korn changed up their sound and left the copycats behind with Follow The Leader

Korn posing for a photograph in 1998.

Nu metal founding fathers Korn can legitimately lay claim to kickstarting a whole new scene with their landmark 1994 debut album, but follow up Life Is Peachy was a disappointment by contrast. Which meant a lot was riding on 1998’s Follow The Leader, as Metal Hammer found out when we met vibed-up singer Jonathan Davis and guitarist Munky in Paris just before the album was released.