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The shooting left 19 children and two adults dead.

The shooting left 19 children and two adults dead.

Charting Munky and Heads influence – from Sepultura and Slipknot to the present day

One of the very best albums to ever come out of nu metal and still to this day one of the finest metal albums of the 21st Century. Unapologetically nasty, rhythmically ferocious and genuinely groundbreaking, The War Of Art is a bona fide masterpiece. Heavy, arty, catchy and filthy, there’s not a single itch that this album doesn’t scratch. Sure, there’s a lot of Mike Patton’s influence on here, but The War Of Art ranks among the best albums produced by Rick Rubin. Don&rsq...

Korn guitarist James 'Munky' Shaffer is reminiscing about the past. It's been almost 30 years since his band spearheaded the game-changing nu metal movement, but sometimes he can't help but marvel at how close to destruction he and the band came. “Around the time of my father’s death, I had severely slipped into bad drug use and alcoholism," he says. "I had lost both my parents now, and I didn’t want ...

Korn are the founding fathers of nu metal, and a band who single-handedly changed the direction of heavy music in the 1990s. They’ve had their share of ups and downs, but their best albums stand among metal’s greatest. Here are all 14 Korn albums to date, ranked from worst to best.

After the catharsis of The Nothing, Korn have – for the first time – found themselves in a positive space. In a world-exclusive, Jonathan, Munky and Head explore this renewed and refreshed appreciation for existence, plus how it formed the blueprint for their new album and the rest of their lives...

James ‘Munky’ Shaffer says that Korn, Slipknot and Limp Bizkit – whove all released new music in 2021 – clearly still absolutely love what they do.

Look back on the story behind the album.

Look back on the story behind the album.