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"Craziness, drugs, alcohol, chicks – you name it, I did it." How Korn's most chaotic and hedonistic era birthed a nu metal classic in Follow The Leader

Follow The Leader officially confirmed Korn as nu metal superstars. It also sent the band flying off the rails.

It’s almost 30 years since Korn erupted onto the metal scene, and the sounds they created back then sound almost normal by today’s standards, a template that’s been endlessly copied, but rest assured they are not normal. Korn were – and still are – one of a kind: ever evolving, always leading where others follow. 

It began in 1994, with their phenomenal self-titled debut album , a bolt out of the blue that was, to all intents and purposes, the birth of what became known as nu metal . An album so darkly brilliant that, even for Korn, it was difficult to supersede. By comparison, 1996’s Life Is Peachy seemed formulaic and rushed, by the band’s own admission a “fast food” album to capitalise on their success. “It had its moments, but half of us didn’t really like Life Is Peachy compared to the first album,” guitarist Head admits today. 

But still, the eyes of the music world were upon Korn. Playing the Lollapalooza tour in 1997 with the likes of Tool , Snoop Dogg and Tricky, they were all over MTV, their audiences growing from clubs and theatres to ‘sheds’, playing to thousands of people. The big question was, what were they going to do next? Would they sink or swim? With Korn’s trademark sound already being aped by other bands, would Korn just sound like a copy of themselves?

“It kinda felt like we’d coined this sound and then we were trying to follow it up with something we’d already done,” agrees guitarist Munky. “So when Follow The Leader came around it was like, either we’re gonna make the same record for the next 25 years or we’re gonna be a band that evolves. I think that was the turning point.”

As the title suggests, Follow The Leader was intended as a raised middle digit to the copyists, proof that Korn couldn’t be left in their own wake.

“Now we think it’s cool,” says Munky. “But at the time we were like, ‘Man, this is bullshit, people trying to sound like Korn.’ We’d created something that was different, but right after the ...Peachy album we were starting to hear bands that sounded like us, so we took a left turn. They thought they knew the formula, and all of a sudden we put out this record that’s hip hop, rock, metal… If you listen to the first album and Follow The Leader , it’s almost like two different bands.”

Having written future classics Freak On A Leash , Got The Life and a handful of other tunes, Korn made camp at NRG studios in Los Angeles in spring 1998. They were experimenting with the latest technology and working, for the first time, with producer Steve Thompson. Given that Ross Robinson had produced the first two albums and was known to be an integral part in creating their sound, it was a bold move to say the least.

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“We just wanted to try something new,” explains Head. “Ross was an awesome, ground-breaking producer who taught us a lot, but he was like a leader, and the best leaders should be able to train people and then send them out. And I feel like that’s just what Ross did… and then we wanted to go and do our own thing. Ross had really trained us well with melodies and doing weird sounds with the guitar, so we took it another step. The band wrote all the music together and a couple of producers worked on the record. It’s been said in a blog that our songs were a mess when we sent them in, but they were not a mess – they were just like they are. There were a couple of tweaks, but the structures were all in place for almost the entire record.”

“We went in the studio with Steve, and he was kinda going through some personal stuff so he kinda wasn’t showing up and wasn’t really engaged,” Munky continues. “The engineer, Toby Wright, took over from that point and helped us engineer and produce the album. But Steve was there when we were doing three or four big songs on the album, and he was a big part of that. And we were fucking around a lot, too. It was chaos! So I can see why somebody would think, ‘This is bullshit.’”

By all accounts, chaos is something of an understatement. Aside from putting out Korn TV on the internet every week – a show with guests including everyone from the Deftones to Marilyn Manson and porn star Ron Jeremy – the tales of partying, drugs, alcohol, and “random groupies”, as Munky says, are legendary. Sessions would go from three in the afternoon until three at night, sometimes with nothing getting done. Rumour even suggests that frontman Jonathan Davis wouldn’t sing unless he had cocaine.

“Yeah, he’d want some Jack Daniel’s and a line of blow,” nods Munky. “He got sober immediately after that album, that’s how fucked-up it was.”

“I just remember craziness, fucking drugs, alcohol, chicks – you name it, I did it,” says Jonathan. “We were 25 to 28 years old, so it was like party central,” recalls Head. “There was a lot of alcohol. Thousands and thousands of dollars! We were out of control! When you party so hard at that age it’s a lot of fun, but it was the beginning of a lot of messed-up lives.” 

Remarkably, in the midst of all this mayhem, a classic album was somehow taking shape, with Jonathan writing some of his deepest and darkest lyrics, like Freak On A Leash and Pretty – the horrific tale of the rape and murder of a baby, prompted by his time working in a coroner’s office. Not that this darkness was any surprise to the rest of the band.

“What he sang about was always dark,” says Munky, “and even when he sings something uplifting, the band leans towards a minor key. It’s just who we are. We always have a darker sound, whether it’s lyrically or melodies. I’m used to him writing that way, and none of us have ever said, ‘You shouldn’t say that.’ As a lyricist and singer, you have to be very vulnerable and expose part of who you are, and that takes a lot of courage. He exposes a lot of fear and anxiety, and ultimately that helps people because it makes them feel less alone. He’s digging so deep that nothing he pulls up cannot be gold or diamonds.”

Korn also had some impressive guests on the album. Along with Fred Durst and Tre Hardson from alternative rappers The Pharcyde, they managed to get NWA’s Ice Cube and no less a legend than Cheech Marin, with whom Munky smoked more than a few joints.

“I think the Cheech thing came about from Fieldy,” Munky smiles. “He loves smoking weed! It’s the funniest thing, because he used to hate it, and then he went through this weed phase, watching all the Cheech & Chong movies. Then we were messing around in the studio playing [ Life Is Peachy ’s War cover] Lowrider , and he was like, ‘Wouldn’t it be awesome if we could get Cheech in the studio!’ He was a super-nice guy and he brought his family to the show, later in that tour cycle. Then Ice Cube came into the studio and that was the first time I’d witnessed a real pro, someone that came in and killed it. He listened to the track a few times, studied it, didn’t talk much and was very serious about his craft. I was blown away and it was really inspiring.”

“My heart was pounding!” confesses Head, completely starstruck by meeting Ice Cube. “I had to come up with a cool riff and not let him down, and I’m shaking! Pressure! It was surreal, dude. When I was 19 or 20 I was all over NWA. The realness and the rawness… And Ice Cube’s voice tones were just the best.”

With the album completed and iconic artwork done by comic book creator Todd McFarlane, who later directed the award-winning video for Freak On A Leash , it wasn’t long before Korn, too, experienced those dizzying levels of fame. Follow The Leader was released on August 18, 1998 and went to Number One in four countries, including the US, making it their biggest-selling record to date. And while the band had been primed to expect huge success, confident that they’d made a great album that was unlike anything else, they had no idea how huge it would be. Head remembers that they were on the Korn Kampaign meet-and-greet tour when they heard that the album had reached the top of the charts. 

“I was in a record store signing records,” he says. “I don’t remember the city, but I called my dad, like, ‘Dad, we went to Number One!’ He was always the type who was telling me to cut my hair, so he got to a place where he was like, ‘Man, I was wrong about you. I should have just let you be you.’ That was really cool of him to say.”

But if the album was big, then the singles – Got The Life and Freak On A Leash – were arguably bigger, and they propelled the band to “a whole new level of fame” remembers Head. Got The Life was actually the first video to be officially ‘retired’ from MTV’s Total Live Request show, because fans wouldn’t stop requesting it. Korn were everywhere.

“Yeah, it got pretty crazy, and the fame did go to our heads a little bit and made us a little crazy,” says Head. “Jonathan got suicidal because he was drinking so much Jack and Coke and doing cocaine. He was losing his mind, and he decided to stop it all and get sober during that tour cycle.”

In September 1998, the band went out on their own Family Values tour, taking along Rammstein , Ice Cube, Limp Bizkit and Orgy. The partying continued, but Jonathan sat out on the sidelines.

“It was detoxing,” he says. “All I remember is a lot of pain and anxiety and horrible shit. I would lie shaking in my bunk, and I’d get out onstage, and I could perform but then I’d go back to going through hell again. My therapy was that I’d hang out with my dear friend Rigger Dan. He passed away a long time ago, God bless him, but he taught me how to tie different kinds of knots, and I’d help him rig the show every night. I got involved with the crew, because everyone else was partying, and I couldn’t be part of that.”

Meanwhile, Head was still keeping up the lifestyle, struggling to reconcile the guy he was before Korn with this new celebrity rockstar. He put up a decent front, but behind the scenes he was troubled.

“The friends I grew up with, and the guy I looked in the mirror at, they all became different people. I just couldn’t control the habits,” he admits. “I wanted to drink alcohol and have fun, and maybe do drugs once in a while, but I didn’t want them to rule me. Also, my personality… I was good with the guys and I could have fun, but in relationships I was insecure and I never felt good enough. When the fame came, it just magnified all those insecurities.”

“It was good in the sense that we were able to buy new cars and upgrade from apartments to condos,” adds Munky. “But it was also bad to give five guys money – we were all addicts, just buying alcohol and not thinking about tomorrow or our future. I didn’t really deal with it very well. The money was new to us – we didn’t grow up with money – so it wasn’t like we had some financial advisor sitting us down and going, ‘You need to put money away.’ None of us had any of that until a few years ago, which is kinda sad. It was tough; you have all this money and a lot of addiction problems, and you buy dumb shit when you’re fucked up! Cars and boats, there’s no appreciation. And all of a sudden you have this crew of 10 people, all these guys who wanna leach off you and pretend that they’re helping you. But the only person that’s gonna help you is your mom. Everybody else is out to fucking take your money and it took me a while to see that.”

Older now, and much wiser, the band have had time to reflect upon the extraordinary success of the record, and its legacy. There can be no doubt that it dragged a new (or nu) sound into the mainstream, and its influence is still heard today.

“There’s also a lot of hip hop guys who got into that album,15 or 20 years younger than me, and that stuff influenced a lot of urban kids, which is cool,” agrees Munky. “And it’s tricky keeping people’s attention and keeping them as fans, but we had hardcore fans from the first records and Follow The Leader blew us up. I’m floored by it.” 

A veteran of rock, punk and metal journalism for almost three decades, across his career Mörat has interviewed countless music legends for the likes of Metal Hammer, Classic Rock, Kerrang! and more. He's also an accomplished photographer and author whose first novel, The Road To Ferocity , was published in 2014. Famously, it was none other than Motörhead icon and dear friend Lemmy who christened Mörat with his moniker. 

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Follow The Leader 1998

Korn | Life is Peachy | Follow The Leader | Issues | Untouchables | Take a Look In The Mirror | See You On The Other Side | Untitled | Korn III | The Path of Totality | The Paradigm Shift | The Serenity of Suffering | The Nothing |   Requiem  |  Discografía  |

Tracks 1- 12 (Silence) 13. It’s On! (4:29) 14. Freak On A Leash (4:15) 15. Got The Life (3:45) 16. Dead Bodies Everywhere (4:45) 17. Children Of The Korn (3:52) 18. B.B.K. (3:57) 19. Pretty (4:12) 20. All In The Family (4:49) 21. Reclaim My Place (4:32) 22. Justin (4:17) 23. Seed (5:55) 24. Cameltosis (4:38) 25. My Gift To You (15:40) Earache My Eye Hidden track

Disquera: Epic/Immortal

Año: 1998 Salida: Ago 18 1998 Duracion total: 1hr 10min 6seg

Productores: Steve Thompson, Toby Wright y KoRn Grabado en: NRG Studios Portada por: Todd McFarlane

Personal: Jonathan Davis – vocalista, gaita. Fieldy – bajo Head – guitarra Munky- guitarra David Silveria – bateria

Colaboracion: Ice Cube – «Children Of The Korn» Fred Durst (Limp Bizkit)- «All In The Family» Tre Hardson (Pharcyde) – «Cameltosis» Cheech Marin – Earache My Eye»

B-Sides: ‘I Can Remember’, ‘Jingle Bells’ y ‘Camel Song’

Premios: Quintuple Platino Debut en Billboard: #1

Sencillos: All in the Family Got the life Freak on a leash B.B.K. Children of Korn

Freak on a Leash Got the Life

Datos curiosos: -Los primeros 12 tracks son en silencio por dos razones:

1.- Sería mala suerte que el disco terminara el álbum en el #13 2.- En total los 12 tracks suman un minuto de silencio en memoria de Justin, un fan que murió de cancer, su ultimo deseo fue conocer a KoRn, por él mismo compusieron el track 22.

-En ‘Ereache My Eye’ David tocó el bajo, Jonathan la batería, Filedy hizo coros, head y Munky intercambiaron las partituras de guitarra. -El video de ‘Freak On A Leash’ obtuvo el lugar 20 en la lista de los videos más caros de la historia

FOLLOW THE LEADER POST EDITION (white)

CD: Mismos tracks que el álbum normal Inicia en track #1 en lugar del #13

Follow the Leader Vinyl US 2015 Immortal Records

A1 It’s On! A2 Freak On A Leash A3 Got The Life B1 Dead Bodies Everywhere B2 Children Of The Korn B3 B.B.K. B4 Pretty C1 All In The Family C2 Reclaim My Place C3 Justin D1 Seed D2 Cameltosis D3 My Gift To You

Follow the Leader Vinyl Europe 2014 Epic

SENCILLOS / PROMO´S

All In The Family US radio promo Epic ‎– ESK 41431

01 – All In The Family (Clark World Remix) 02 – All In The Family (Sowing The Beats Mix)

All In The Family Remixes AU promo 1998, Epic/Immortal – ESK 41269

01 – All In The Family (Album Version) 02 – All In The Family (Clark World Remix) 03 – All In The Family (Sowing The Beats Mix) 04 – All In The Family (Beats In Peace Mix) 05 – All In The Family (Scary Bird Mix)

All In The Family US 12″ vinyl – 1998, Epic – EAS 41269

A1 – All In The Family (Clark World Remix) A2 – All In The Family (Beats In Peace Mix) B All In The Family (Beats In Peace Mix)

Got The Life US radio promo – 1998, Epic/Immortal – ESK 41371

01 – Got The Life (Album Version)

Got The Life UK radio promo – 1998, Epic/Immortal – XPCD 2285

Got The Life UK import – 1998, Epic/Immortal – 666391 2

01 – Got The Life (Album Version) 02 – Got The Life (Deejay Punk-Roc Remix) 03 – Got The Life (D.O.S.E.’s Wollyback Remix)

Got The Life UK cd2 import – 1998, Epic/Immortal – 666391 5

01 – Got The Life (Album Version) 02 – I Can Remember 03 – Got The Life (Oomph vs Such A Surge Mix)

Got The Life UK 12″ vinyl – 1998, Epic/Immortal – 666391 6

A1 – Got The Life (Deejay Punk-Roc Remix) A2 – Got The Life (D.O.S.E. Woollyback Remix) . B1 – Got The Life (Album Version)

Got The Life AU cd2 import – 1998, Epic/Immortal – 666343 5

01 – Got The Life (Album Version) 02 – Children Of The Korn (Clarkworld Remix) 03 – Got The Life (Josh Abraham Remix) 04 – Got The Life (Vorticist’s Suite) 05 – Got The Life (I Got A Knife Remix)

Got The Life DE cd1 imoport – 1998, Epic/Immortal – 666302 2

01 – Got The Life (Album Version) 02 – Got The Life (Deejay Punck-Roc Mix) 03 – Got The Life (D.O.S.E. Wollyback Remix) 04 – I Can Remember

Got The Life – DE cd2 import – 1998, Epic/Immortal 666302 5

01 – Got The Life (Album Version) 02 – Got The Life (Vorticist’s Suite) 03 – Got The Life (I Got A Knife Remix) 04 – Children Of The KoRn (Clarkworld Remix)

Got The Life SW import – 1998, Epic/Immortal – 666302 1

01 – Got The Life (Album Version) 02 – I Can Remember

Freak On A Leash US radio promo – 1998, Epic/Immortal – ESK 41631

01 – Freak On A Leash (Clean Single Edit) 02 – Freak On A Leash (Album Version)

Freak On A Leash Remixes MX radio promo – 1998, Epic/Immortal – PRCD 97712

01 – Freak On A Leash (Album Version) 02 – Freak On A Leash (Dante Ross Mix) 03 – Freak On A Leash (Freakin’ Bitch Mix) 04 – Freak On A Leash (Josh A’s Beast On A Leash Mix) 05 – Freak On A Leash (Lethal Freak Mix)

Freak On A Leash Remixes UK cd1 import – 1998, Epic/Immortal – 667252 2

01 – Freak On A Leash (Album Version) 02 – Freak On A Leash (Dante Ross Mix) 03 – Freak On A Leash (Josh A’s Beast On A Leash Mix) 04 – Freak On A Leash (Video)

Freak On A Leash Remixes UK cd2 import – 1998, Epic/Immortal – 667252 5

01 – Freak On A Leash (Album Version) 02 – Freak On A Leash (Freakin’ Bitch Mix) 03 – Freak On A Leash (Lethal Freak Mix) 04 – Freak On A Leash (Live – Family Values Tour Version)

Freak On A Leash Remixes UK 12″ vinyl – 1998, Epic/Immortal – 667252 6 01 – Freak On A Leash (Album Version) 02 – Freak On A Leash (Dante Ross Mix) 03 – Freak On A Leash (Josh A’s Beast On A Leash Mix) 04 – Freak On A Leash (Freakin’ Bitch Mix) 05 – Freak On A Leash (Lethal Freak Mix)

Freak On A Leash Remixes AU import – 998, Epic/Immortal – 666856 2

01 – Freak On A Leash (Album Version) 02 – Freak On A Leash (Freakin’ Bitch Mix) 03 – Freak On A Leash (Josh A’s Beast On A Leash Mix) 04 – Freak On A Leash (Lethal Freak Mix) 05 – Freak On A Leash (Dante Ross Mix)

Freak On A Leash Remixes DE import – 998, Epic/Immortal – 666834 2

Freak On A Leash Remixes FR import – 1998, Epic/Immortal – 667213 2

01 – Freak On A Leash (Album Version) 02 – Freak On A Leash (Dante Ross Mix) 03 – Freak On A Leash (Freakin’ Bitch Mix) 04 – Freak On A Leash (Josh A’s Beast On A Leash Mix) 05 – Freak On A Leash (Lethal Freak Mix) 06 – Freak On A Leash (One Shot Remix)

Freak On A Leash Remixes SW import – 1998, Epic/Immortal – 666834 1

01 – Freak On A Leash (Album Version) 02 – Freak On A Leash (Dante Ross Mix)

B.B.K. MX radio promo – 1998, Epic/Immortal – PRCD 97738

01 – B.B.K.

Children Of The Korn US radio promo – 1998, Epic/Immortal – ESK 41632

01 – Children Of The Korn (Clark World Remix) 02 – Got The Life (Vorcist’s Suite) 03 – Got The Life (Josh Abraham Remix) 04 – Got The Life (I Got A Knife Remix)

Children Of The Korn US 12″ green promo vinyl1 – 1998, Epic/Immortal – EAS 41632

A1 – Children Of The Korn (Clark World Remix) A2 – Children Of The Korn (Clark World Instrumental) B1 – Got The Life (Vorcist’s Suite) B2 – Got The Life (I Got A Knife Remix)

Children Of The Korn US 12″ green promo vinyl2 – 1998, Epic/Immortal – EAS 041632

A1 – Children Of The Korn (Clark World Remix – Clean Version) A2 – Children Of The Korn (Clark World Remix) A3 – Children Of The Korn (Clark World Instrumental) B1 – Got The Life (Vorcist’s Suite) B2 – Got The Life (I Got A Knife Remix)

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Follow the Leader (stylized as FOLLOW The LEADEЯ ) is the third studio album by American nu metal band Korn . It was released on August 18, 1998, through both Immortal and Epic Records . This was their first album not produced by Ross Robinson . Instead, it was produced by Steve Thompson and Toby Wright .

• " All in the Family " Released: July 18, 1998
• " Got the Life " Released: November 23, 1998
• " Freak on a Leash " Released: February 25, 1999

The album peaked at number one on four national charts, including the US Billboard 200 with 268,000 units sold in its first week of release, [4] Follow the Leader is the band's most commercially–successful album, being certified five-times Platinum by the RIAA. Its singles, " Got the Life " and " Freak on a Leash ", both charted on more than three charts, and their music videos are considered to be the first music videos retired from MTV , most notably the MTV show Total Request Live . [5] The album generally received positive reviews by critics and sold around 14 million copies worldwide. Korn was praised by AllMusic saying the album is "an effective follow-up to their first two alt-metal landmarks." [6]

The Family Values Tour promoted the album, along with its five singles. The song "Freak on a Leash" was nominated for nine MTV Video Music Awards , and won for the Best Rock Video award, as well as Best Editing . [5] The music video for "Freak on a Leash" won Best Short Form Music Video at the 2000 Grammy Awards . [7]

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Korn made an enormous impact with this 1998 opus: On hits like “Freak On a Leash”, they practically turned nu-metal into a household name as frontman Jonathan Davis comforted the alienated with his feral vocal tics over downtuned guitars and hip-hop-style grooves. The band’s frenzied versatility shows through in slow-burner “Justin”, with Head and Munky extracting crunches and squeals from their guitars, while Ice Cube’s appearance on “Children of the Korn” lends street cred to the band’s freakiest rap-rock urges.

18 August 1998 14 Songs, 1 hour, 7 minutes ℗ 1998 Epic Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment

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Korn’s ‘Follow the Leader': 8 Facts Only Superfans Would Know

Korn brought something entirely new to the world of metal in 1994 with their self-titled debut album. Its follow-up,  Life Is Peachy,  followed a similar sound and format as its predecessor, and the band knew they had to make a shift somewhere if they were going to last.

They exceeded their goals far beyond their expectations when they released  Follow the Leader  in 1998. It was their first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200, and the singles "Got the Life" and "Freak on a Leash" were massive. If  Korn  paved the way for nu-metal,  Follow the Leader  cemented it, catapulting Jonathan Davis , Brian "Head" Welch , James "Munky" Shaffer , Reginald "Fieldy" Arvizu  and David Silveria into superstardom that they never thought possible.

Their label, Epic Records, threw a promotional event for the album at Tower Records in New York City, and 9,000 people showed up. “It was like being in the fuckin’ Beatles or some shit. That’s when we were like, ‘OK, we’re a fuckin’ big band now,’” Davis told the Ringer .

Over two decades later, and Korn have a vast discography now. But, Follow the Leader  still holds at the top of most peoples' favorites. Here are eight facts only superfans would know about the album that turned Korn from a potentially faltering band to funk-metal legends.

1. The title was directed at imitators.

Korn's 1994 self-titled debut album spearheaded what would become known as nu-metal, and given the way things were going, it was inevitable that other bands were going to try and adopt a similar sound. Thus, the name  Follow the Leader  was directed at their "followers."

“Now we think it’s cool,” Munky told Metal Hammer . “But at the time we were like, ‘Man, this is bullshit, people trying to sound like Korn.’ We’d created something that was different, but right after the ...Peachy album we were starting to hear bands that sounded like us, so we took a left turn. They thought they knew the formula, and all of a sudden we put out this record that’s hip-hop, rock, metal... If you listen to the first album and Follow The Leader , it’s almost like two different bands."

2. They spent an outrageous amount of money partying while in the studio.

Though they didn't necessarily do it alone — members of Deftones and Limp Bizkit joined in on the fun — Davis told the Ringer they spent upward of $60,000 on alcohol throughout their time recording  Follow the Leader.  That total isn't including what they spent on drugs, either.

“We were 25 to 28 years old, so it was like party central,” Head admitted to Metal Hammer. “There was a lot of alcohol. Thousands and thousands of dollars! We were out of control! When you party so hard at that age it’s a lot of fun, but it was the beginning of a lot of messed-up lives.”

3. Ross Robinson physically hurt Jonathan Davis in the studio.

Ross Robinson was a ruthless producer within the metal scene, but it made for some of the best albums to be released, including Slipknot 's  Iowa.  Robinson produced Korn's first two albums, but they decided to recruit Steve Thompson to produce  Follow the Leader.  Instead, Robinson spent his time in the studio with Davis as his vocal producer.

"I put the microphone on the floor, put Jonathan on all fours and stood over his middle part. My hands were on him, on his shoulder muscles, and I told him, ‘Sing, and if I feel you holding back, I’m going to fucking hurt you,’" Robinson described to Metal Hammer .

"I was squeezing him and jabbing my thumbs in his neck and I wanted more from him! I was being romantic again because I wanted him to feel like he did that first time we worked together," he continued. "I heard the tracks and they were playing to a click track and I wasn’t used to hearing Korn like that. They were so held back from what I was used to and Jonathan was trying and I hurt him."

4. Todd McFarlane, the album cover illustrator, was a comic book creator.

Todd McFarlane was known for having worked on several notable comic series such as  The Amazing Spiderman  and the horror franchise  Spawn.  Korn wanted him to work on their album cover because they heard from someone at their label that he had referred to them as "the Doors of the '90s."

"It got everyone really excited," Silveria told the Mitch Schneider Organization . "So after we were asked to do the Spawn soundtrack and we had seen his art, we knew what he was capable of."

McFarlane also directed the video for "Freak on a Leash."

5. The original release featured 25 tracks.

The album technically only has 13 songs, though "Earache My Eye" was originally considered a "hidden track" after two minutes of silence at the end of "My Gift to You." Now, streaming platforms, such as Spotify, list the album as having 14 songs.

The initial physical release, however, had 25 tracks. The first 12 were each just five seconds of silence, making the entire first minute of the album completely silent.

There are two different theories regarding the band's purpose for doing this — one says that Davis is very superstitious and didn't want the album ending on track 13; the other says it was a "moment of silence" for one of their fans, Justin, who was dying of cancer and wanted to meet the band. A song on the album was dedicated to him as well.

6. "Got the Life" was the first music video to be "retired" from MTV's  Total Request Live. 

The music video for "Got the Life" was the most requested video on MTV's daily top 10 countdown,  Total Request Live.  In 1999, it became the first music video to be "retired" from the show because the channel wanted other videos to have a chance to make it to the top.

7. Jonathan Davis got sober after it came out.

"It got pretty crazy, and the fame did go to our heads a little bit and made us a little crazy,” Head confessed to Metal Hammer. “Jonathan got suicidal because he was drinking so much Jack and coke and doing cocaine. He was losing his mind, and he decided to stop it all and get sober during that tour cycle.”

So as the band embarked on their  Family Values  tour in 1998, Davis was on the route to detox. "All I remember is a lot of pain and anxiety and horrible shit," Davis reflected. "I would lie shaking in my bunk, and I’d get out onstage, and I could perform but then I’d go back to going through hell again."

8. "Pretty" was inspired by Davis' time as a coroner's assistant.

Prior to pursuing a career in music, Davis worked at the Kern County Coroner's office in Bakersfield, Calif. "My dad and mom both thought I was a problem child or something that wanted to cut up dead bodies. But from the beginning, since my dad owned a music store and was in the music business, he always preached to me, I'm not letting you go in the music business," the frontman told Addicted to Noise 's Jaan Uhelszki.

"So when I was sixteen I started working at the coroner's office. After I graduated I went to mortuary school to become a mortician or a funeral director," he continued. "After that, I came back and worked at a funeral home, did my internship for two years and decided to say 'fuck you' and got in a band."

Some of the atrocities Davis witnessed throughout his time working at the office inspired Korn lyrics — particularly the song "Pretty."

“It’s a story about this little girl that came into the coroner’s office when I was working there and she was fucked by her dad," he told the Mitch Schneider Organization . "She was an 11-month-old little baby girl. Her legs were broken back behind her, and he had raped her like a toy doll and chucked her in the bathroom. It was the most heinous thing I’ve ever seen in my life, and I still have nightmares about it. I was about 17-and-a-half at the time. It was heavy man."

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When will Jake Knapp tee off on Saturday at The CJ Cup Byron Nelson 2024? Leader's tee time and pairing explored

J ake Knapp took The CJ Cup Byron Nelson 2024 lead on Day 2. The PGA Tour rookie carded a second consecutive 7-under 64 on Friday to climb up the leaderboard. The 29-year-old finished 14-under 128 after 36 holes for a one-stroke lead over Troy Merritt (62) and round 1 leader Matt Wallace (66).

Knapp will return to The CJ Cup Byron Nelson 2024 field on Saturday to resume his campaign. The golfer, who once worked as security at a restaurant, will begin the third round at 1:55 PM ET. T2 Merritt will join him on the first tee at TPC Craig Ranch. The leader will follow the pairing of Wallace and Kelly Kraft teeing off at 1:45 PM.

Knapp seems to be in good form at The CJ Cup Byron Nelson 2024. The rookie hit 16 of 18 greens each of the first two rounds in Dallas and had the same number of putts on both days, 28. It is pertinent to note that Knapp earned his PGA Tour card last year by finishing 13th on the Korn Ferry Tour.

The golfer, who turns 30 on May 31, started off the season weak by finishing T70 at the Sony Open. He failed to make the cut at The American Express. However, the California native turned the season around by finishing T3 at the Farmers Insurance Open. He won the Mexico Open two weeks later, in his fifth start this season.

Coming off the back of a T62 finish at the RBC Heritage, Knapp will be eyeing a big result this weekend at The CJ Cup Byron Nelson 2024 .

The CJ Cup Byron Nelson round 3 tee times

Day 3 of The CJ Cup Byron Nelson 2024 will begin at 8:20 AM ET with Chris Gotterup and Ryan McCormick on the first tee. The pairing of Mark Hubbard and Ben Martin will follow suit at 8:30 AM.

Listed below are the complete Saturday tee times for the PGA Tour event (All times ET):

• 8:20 AM - Chris Gotterup, Ryan McCormick
• 8:30 AM - Mark Hubbard, Ben Martin
• 8:40 AM - Tom Kim, Jason Day
• 8:50 AM - Luke List, Henrik Norlander
• 9:00 AM - Sam Stevens, Joel Dahmen
• 9:10 AM - Dylan Wu, Sung Kang
• 9:20 AM - Kris Kim (a), Carson Young
• 9:30 AM - Aaron Baddeley, Ryo Hisatsune
• 9:40 AM - S.Y. Noh, Nico Echavarria
• 9:55 AM - Tom Hoge, Mackenzie Hughes
• 10:05 AM - Scott Piercy, Patton Kizzire
• 10:15 AM - Justin Lower, Kevin Chappell
• 10:25 AM - Tyson Alexander, Tom Whitney
• 10:35 AM - Kevin Tway, Andrew Novak
• 10:45 AM - Hayden Buckley, Brandt Snedeker
• 10:55 AM - Maverick McNealy, Beau Hossler
• 11:05 AM - David Skinns, Daniel Berger
• 11:20 AM - Rafael Campos, Kevin Dougherty
• 11:30 AM - Austin Cook, Adrien Dumont de Chassart
• 11:40 AM - Adam Scott, Min Woo Lee
• 11:50 AM - Alex Smalley, Stephan Jaeger
• 12:00 PM - Ben Griffin, Max McGreevy
• 12:10 PM - Harrison Endycott, Jorge Campillo
• 12:20 PM - Martin Laird, Vince Whaley
• 12:30 PM - Si Woo Kim, K.H. Lee
• 12:45 PM - Byeong Hun An, Zach Johnson
• 12:55 PM - Adam Schenk, Nick Dunlap
• 1:05 PM - Taiga Semikawa, Alex Noren
• 1:15 PM - Aaron Rai, S.H. Kim
• 1:25 PM - Keith Mitchell, Ben Kohles
• 1:35 PM - Davis Riley, Taylor Pendrith
• 1:45 PM - Matt Wallace, Kelly Kraft
• 1:55 PM - Jake Knapp, Troy Merritt

Final round tee times for the PGA Tour 's The CJ Cup Byron Nelson 2024 will be updated after round 3's play.

The Five: Absurd stats that explain Scottie Scheffler’s dominance

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HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. – A sly smile emerged as Brian Harman sat Tuesday for his pre-tournament press conference at the RBC Heritage. A reporter was starting to ask about Scottie Scheffler, the hottest golfer in the world.

“Is any part of you surprised that Scottie is playing this week with everything going on, and is there a part of you that hopes he doesn't?” the report asked.

Harman chuckled. “Yeah, there's lots of parts of me that hope he doesn't play,” he said.

Scheffler is the new benchmark with which the rest of the PGA TOUR measures itself. The rest of the TOUR knows it. Harman’s response was part joke, part honest admission. Scheffler only needs his “B” game to contend and win, Harman continued. That’s a scary proposition.

Scheffler has won three times this year, including THE PLAYERS Championship and the Masters. He’s the first since Tiger Woods to win those two high-profile tournaments in the same season and the first since Woods to win them both multiple times.

The Scheffler-Woods comparisons are growing more frequent with every tournament Scheffler wins. It’s not that Scheffler is as dominant as Woods. He’s just the most dominant since Woods.

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And it doesn’t seem to be slowing down. As Scheffler looks to build on his historic season with more victories at Signature Events and major championships, it’s an excellent time to take stock of the history in the making. Here are The Five stats that explain Scheffler’s dominance.

1. Locked at the top of the world ranking

Scheffler has already spent the last 47 weeks atop the Official World Golf Ranking, and he’s not going anywhere anytime soon.

With his win at the Masters, Scheffler further stretched his lead to a point that is likely insurmountable in 2024. The win elevated Scheffler’s average point total to 13.99, with more than a six-point lead over No. 2 Rory McIlroy.

The minutiae of the point totals are hard to follow, so here’s the necessary context to understand the feat: Scheffler’s gap over No. 2 is larger than any world No. 1 has had since Tiger Woods in 2009 when Woods held an eight-point lead. Woods amassed that lead during his record 281 consecutive weeks at world No. 1.

Scheffler has a long way to go to reach that sustained level of dominance, but what he’s doing right now is on par with any stretch of golf played in the modern era.

Calculating OWGR projections can be a bit fickle. There are so many variables week-to-week about field strength and eventual outcomes, but world ranking expert Nosferatu put it in the context of what is needed to dethrone Scheffler. Nosferatu wrote on social media this week that McIlroy would need to win “three majors plus some extra” to overtake Scheffler. That also assumes Scheffler isn’t playing well.

So, get used to Scheffler at the top. It’s going to stay that way for a long time.

2. It’s been years since Scheffler’s last poor iron performance… literally

Scheffler’s ball-striking is his superpower on the golf course. There have been weeks when the putter has failed him or his driver has been wayward. Finding a week when Scheffler’s iron play has abandoned him is nearly impossible.

It’s what makes him special. Every top player has a superpower, but Scheffler’s is more consistent than any other player’s.

In fact, the last time Scheffler lost strokes to the field with his approach play was the 2022 FedEx St. Jude Championship. That’s a streak of 36 events spanning more than 600 days.

Scottie Scheffler's top eight shots since 2023 Masters

To put it in perspective, McIlroy is widely considered the best off-the-tee game on TOUR. He lost strokes off-the-tee at THE PLAYERS last month. Collin Morikawa, one of the players thought to rival Scheffler’s approach play, has lost strokes with his approach play in three events this season. Hideki Matsuyama, the TOUR leader in SG: Around the Green, has lost strokes in that category twice this year. Taylor Montgomery, the TOUR leader in SG: Putting, has had two weeks where he lost strokes on the green.

No player more consistently gets more out of their best skill than Scheffler. It’s the reason he has such an incredibly high floor.

3. Best of both worlds

Scheffler leads the PGA TOUR in both birdie average (5.43 per round) and bogey avoidance (1.6 per round). It’s a lethal combo that further explains why Scheffler’s scoring average (68.8) is a full shot lower than No. 2 Xander Schauffele (69.9).

It’s made possible because of the specific type of dominance Scheffler deploys. He is the best iron player in the world. He also has one of the best short games, a borderline unfair combination. Scheffler hardly ever puts himself in a spot of bother. When he does, he is better equipped than any to get up and down for par.

Scheffler upends the widely accepted notion that a byproduct of making birdies is running into bogeys along the way. Scheffler is the only player on TOUR inside the top 10 in both birdie average and bogey avoidance. While others need to be aggressive to notch five birdies a round, Scheffler runs into birdies by the sheer, consistent force of his ball-striking.

Scottie Scheffler's eagle hole-out from 92 yards is the Shot of the Day

Sure, Scheffler could attack pins that others don’t dare take on. That happens occasionally, but Scheffler is making the smart play more often than not. He’s hitting the fat sides of greens, keeping the ball underneath the hole and assuring he doesn’t hit it near the trouble. It is death by 1000 paper cuts. He leads the PGA TOUR in Greens in Regulation and is sixth in Proximity to the hole. Putting statistics be damned, with those numbers Scheffler finds birdies regardless of whether the putter is cooperating.

4. Always in the red

The Masters cumulatively played 568 over-par across four rounds. Scheffler didn’t contribute. He hasn’t at any point this season, not for a tournament or a round. Scheffler has carded zero over-par rounds this season. His second-round 72 at Augusta National Golf Club was his worst score of his season. He has more wins (three) than rounds over par (zero).

Here’s how Scheffler stacks up to some of his peers:

McIlroy – Eight rounds over par

Schauffele – Four rounds over par

Wyndham Clark – Six rounds over par

Hovland – Five rounds over par

It’s an encapsulation of the Scheffler experience. He doesn’t have bad rounds often and when he does, by his standards, he knows how to manage them.

5. FedExCup frontrunner

Scheffler finished second in the 2022-23 FedExCup Regular Season standings, amassing 3,146 points before the Playoffs last August. Second only to Jon Rahm, Scheffler held an 800-point advantage over McIlroy in third. That was unquestionably a dominant season, and somehow, it’s not even close to as impressive as this season.

Scheffler has already outpaced his 2022-23 season-long points total. After his Masters victory, Scheffler has amassed 3,215 points. He’s accumulated in nine events what it took him 20 events to do a year ago. Then there’s how it looks compared to the rest of the FedExCup. Scheffler has more than double the FedExCup points than No. 2 Clark. Scheffler has more than triple the points of No. 8 Byeong Hun An.

Clark would need to win multiple more Signature Events (and then some) to reach Scheffler’s current point total.

At this pace, it won’t be the race to the FedExCup; it will be a slow march to King Scheffler's coronation.

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Former security guard Jake Knapp leads the Byron Nelson after 2 rounds

Jake Knapp lines up a putt on the 18th hole during the second round of the Byron Nelson golf tournament in McKinney, Texas, Friday, May 3, 2024. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Matt Wallace of England lines up a putt on the 13th hole during the second round of the Byron Nelson golf tournament in McKinney, Texas, Friday, May 3, 2024. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Jake Knapp putts on the 18th hole during the second round of the Byron Nelson golf tournament in McKinney, Texas, Friday, May 3, 2024. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Kelly Kraft hits an approach shot on the sixth hole during the second round of the Byron Nelson golf tournament in McKinney, Texas, Friday, May 3, 2024. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Jordan Spieth gestures as the gallery applauds his putt on the sixth green during the second round of the Byron Nelson golf tournament in McKinney, Texas, Friday, May 3, 2024. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Jake Knapp waves on the 18th hole during the second round of the Byron Nelson golf tournament in McKinney, Texas, Friday, May 3, 2024. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Jordan Spieth stretches to see where his shot from the rough landed on the sixth green during the second round of the Byron Nelson golf tournament in McKinney, Texas, Friday, May 3, 2024. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Jason Day hits from the bunker on the sixth green during the second round of the Byron Nelson golf tournament in McKinney, Texas, Friday, May 3, 2024. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Matt Wallace of England hits an approach shot on the 13th hole during the second round of the Byron Nelson golf tournament in McKinney, Texas, Friday, May 3, 2024. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

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McKINNEY, Texas (AP) — Jake Knapp is spending his weekends much differently now as a rookie on the PGA Tour, just more than two years after working security at a restaurant in his hometown that was also a late-night hotspot.

A first-time Tour winner earlier this year , Knapp went into this weekend leading the CJ Cup Byron Nelson after a second consecutive 7-under 64 on Friday. At 14-under 128, he was a stroke ahead of Troy Merritt (62) and first-round leader Matt Wallace (66), and two ahead of Kelly Kraft (66).

“Even when I was doing any of that stuff, I always knew this was what I wanted to do, and felt like it’s where I should be. Just wasn’t there yet,” Knapp said. “Just kept working away and sticking at it.”

Merritt closed is season-low round with an eagle at the 531-yard ninth hole, where he hit his approach to 16 feet and made that putt. He had birdied four of the previous six holes.

Wallace finished on the same par 5 later in the day, and saved par after driving into a native area and then chunking a shot from there to under a bridge.

Hometown favorite Jordan Spieth, the highest-ranked player in the field at No. 20, shot a 70 to finish at 4-under 138 and miss the cut by two strokes. On the 16th, his wayward drive ricocheted off the elbow of a male spectator back into the fairway. He still bogeyed the hole, then parred his last two.

Defending champion Jason Day closed his round with a 35-foot par putt for a 70, and was just on the cut line at 6-under 136.

Kris Kim, a 16-year-old from England, made the cut in his PGA Tour debut , shooting 68-67 to enter the weekend 7 under. His South Korean-born mother played on the LPGA Tour in the 1990s. He is the first amateur sponsored by South Korean Company CJ Group, the first-year sponsor of the Nelson, and is playing on a sponsor exemption.

Spieth was a 16-year-old amateur at the Nelson in 2010, when the Dallas native tied for 16th in his first PGA Tour start.

Knapp’s only bogey through the first two rounds was on his 12th hole Friday, the dogleg No. 3, where his drive went into the left rough. But he birdied four of his last six holes, that stretch starting with a 32-foot putt at the par-3, 192-yard fourth hole.

“Obviously, a putt you’re not trying to make,” he said. “Hit it a little bit harder than I would’ve liked and luckily it was on a good line and went in.”

Knapp, who turns 30 on May 31, lost his card on the developmental Korn Ferry Tour before taking the part-time job in the fall of 2021 at the place in Costa Mesa, California, where for nearly nine months he worked Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights — often until 2 or 3 a.m. The former UCLA player would practice and go to the gym in between his work shifts.

He got his third win on PGA Tour Canada in August 2022, and last year earned his PGA Tour card by finishing the season 13th on the Korn Ferry Tour. He won the Mexico Open in his fifth start this season, and his ninth overall, including two as an amateur in 2015.

His PGA Tour biography also touts that he can solve a Rubik’s Cube, loves to work out and would pursue a career in the fitness industry if he wasn’t playing golf.

“Yeah, few interesting ones about me,” Knapp said. “I do my best to, I’m kind of a golf-only guy. Just play a lot of golf and practice a lot. That’s been my focus for the last four, five years.”

At TPC Craig Ranch north of Dallas, Knapp hit 16 of 18 greens each of the first two rounds. He also had the same number of putts (28) both days, though the combined distance of those shots on the greens went from 75 feet on Thursday to 139 feet on Friday.

“For the most part hitting it pretty solid and keeping in the right areas. Made it relatively easy on myself.” Knapp said. “Early on in the year felt like I was putting well, and for the last month or so the stroke felt the same and ball wasn’t going in the hole. ... Nice to see a few more going in.”

Merritt opened his round with consecutive birdies before a three-putt bogey at No. 12, though he got that stroke right back with a 52-foot chip-in at No. 13. He made only his second cut in his past six tournaments, and finished 67th in the other one.

“It’s fantastic, especially when you hit the ball solid and making a lot putts,” said Merritt, who is in his 331st PGA Tour event and last won in 2018. “You’re not accidentally there. You’ve actually played well to get there. I haven’t done that. I’ve accidently back-doored a couple top 10s last fall.”

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He worked on Broadway and movie versions of 'The Subject Was Roses' and 'Godspell' and on a revival of 'Gypsy' that starred his sister.

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Edgar Lansbury, the Tony-winning producer and younger brother of famed actress Angela Lansbury who guided the Broadway and big-screen versions of The Subject Was Roses and Godspell , has died. He was 94. 

He died Thursday at his home in Manhattan, his son David Lansbury told The Hollywood Reporter .

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Lansbury’s first Broadway production, the intense family drama The Subject Was Roses , opened in 1964, ran for two years, and won a Pulitzer Prize and the Tony for best play. Written by Frank Gilroy and directed by Ulu Grosbard, it starred Martin Sheen as a returning veteran and son of warring parents played by Jack Albertson and Irene Dailey.

Sheen, Albertson, Gilroy and Grosbard then reprised their roles for the MGM version, with Albertson backing up his Tony victory by winning the Oscar for supporting actor opposite Patricia Neal as his wife.

Invited by future Hill Street Blues actor Charles Haid to a performance of Godspell at the New York experimental theater club La MaMa in March 1971, Lansbury and his frequent producing partner Joseph Beruh took the musical to the off-Broadway Cherry Lane Theatre in 1971 and then to Broadway in 1976. ( Victor Garber played Jesus in the 1973 Columbia adaptation.)

The onetime scenic designer also received Drama Desk nominations in 1977 and 1998, respectively, for producing American Buffalo , starring Robert Duvall in David Mamet ‘s Broadway debut, and Douglas Carter Beane’s As Bees in Honey Drown .

In 2007, he was presented with the John Houseman Award from The Acting Company to honor his commitment to the development of classical actors and a national audience for the theater. (He served on its board of directors for more than four decades since its start in 1972.)

As World War II was heating up, he came to New York in 1940 aboard a refugee boat with his sister, brother and mother (his dad had died of stomach cancer when Edgar was 4). They lived in upstate New York and then in Greenwich Village before he and Bruce attended the Choate School in Wallingford, Connecticut.

After the twins joined their mom and Angela in Los Angeles — both women had landed acting contracts at MGM by then — he graduated from University High School, served in the U.S. Army for two years and became a U.S. citizen in 1954.

Lansbury studied drawing and painting at the Otis Art Institute and at UCLA, then landed a job as art director at CBS Television City. He worked as an art director on The Red Skelton Hour, Climax! , Studio One , Playhouse 90 and The Defenders and on the 1962 film War Hunt , starring John Saxon .

In 1967, he produced Coronet Blue , a CBS drama that starred Frank Converse as an amnesia victim in search of his true identity.

With Beruh, Lansbury took a 10-year lease on a hotel ballroom on Broadway at 76th Street in New York and designed and built the 400-seat Promenade Theater, which opened in 1969. The venue hosted hundreds of plays before shuttering in 2006.

In his later years, he turned to painting and sculpture .

In addition to David, an actor, survivors include his second wife, artist Louise Peabody (they married in 2008), and his other children, James (an assistant director on Seinfeld ), George, Michael, Brian and Kate.

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