Korn Follow The Leader [upd] May 2026

Two years earlier, the five Bakersfield misfits — Jonathan Davis (vocals), James “Munky” Shaffer (guitar), Brian “Head” Welch (guitar), Reginald “Fieldy” Arvizu (bass), and David Silveria (drums) — had released Life Is Peachy , a raw, claustrophobic follow-up to their game-changing 1994 debut. But they were still outsiders. Metal was still dominated by Pantera’s groove-metal swagger, the fading grunge of Stone Temple Pilots, and the rap-rock novelty of Limp Bizkit (whose frontman, Fred Durst, was about to become their unlikely hype man).

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Twenty-five years later, the leader is gone. But the followers? They never left. Two years earlier, the five Bakersfield misfits —

Korn’s third album, Follow the Leader , wasn’t just a record. It was a coronation. Would you like a track-by-track breakdown, a deeper

was something else entirely. A haunting bass intro. Davis’s whispered verse. Then the explosive chorus: “Something takes a part of me.” The middle eight broke all rules — Davis scat-singing nonsense syllables, then a guitar break that sounded like a helicopter crash. The animated video (by Todd McFarlane, creator of Spawn ) featured a silver bullet ripping through walls, a metaphor for frustration, abuse, and release. It won a Grammy (Best Short Form Music Video) and became the band’s signature song. The Bite: Why It Mattered Follow the Leader debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, selling over 268,000 copies in its first week — unheard of for a band who once played to 50 people in a Bakersfield VFW hall. It went on to sell 5 million copies in the U.S. alone.