While Korn has been working on new material for the follow-up to Requiem, it seems fans will have to wait a while to hear it. Guitarist Brian “Head” Welch discussed this during an interview with the Everblack Podcast.
"We got a lot of it [written]. We’re still working. Dude, it’s a trip 30 years later, man, to try to keep doing it. And we’re very happy with what we got, but it’s just gonna take a while. And I don’t know how long — maybe next summer, maybe next year, the next winter, I don’t know, but it’s not gonna be soon.”
Welch also reflected on the impact of Korn’s self-titled debut album, released in 1994. This groundbreaking record helped establish nu metal as a mainstay genre in the heavy and alternative scenes, and contributed to a broader cultural movement that still has its fingerprint on a lot of the modern metal and metal subgenres to date.
He shared the band’s mindset during its creation: “We were just in love with music. And we were in love with all kinds of genres — industrial, metal, like the Panteras, the Metallicas, and then you had the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Nine Inch Nails and Faith No More and Prong and Biohazard and all of these artists that we just… I think about kids that have Spotify, and it's an endless search. Back then, we could have like a collection of maybe 15 or 20 and be done. But we loved music so much that we wanted to include a lot of it in our band. We didn't wanna just pick one style. And we had bands like Anthrax who did it with Public Enemy. I think they were the first ones to do [a mix of] metal [and rap], so I give props to them for opening that door. Not that we were hip-hop, but we have hip-hop undertones with the drums and the bass and whatnot.”
Korn will likely have opportunities to continue working on their new record in 2025, and let's hope that the record gets released sooner than Welch indicates in this interview.
Korn will be out on tour in late Spring of 2025 with a schedule that includes festivals and headline shows across Europe and North America.
05/08 Columbus, OH – Sonic Temple Art + Music Festival
05/18 Daytona Beach, FL – Welcome To Rockville
06/03 Hannover, GER – Zag Arena
06/04-07 Solvesborg, SWE – Sweden Rock Festival
06/07 Nurnberg, GER – Rock im Park
06/08 Nurburg, GER – Rock am Ring
06/10 Leipzig, GER – Quarterback Immobilien AG
06/11 Nickelsdorf, AUT – Nova Rock
06/13 Derby, UK – Download Festival
06/19-22 Dessel, BEL – Graspop Metal Meeting
06/20 Landgraff, NET – Pinkpop
06/25-28 Viveiro, SPA – Resurrection Fest
08/28 East Rutherford, NJ – Metlife Stadium (with System Of A Down, Polyphia & Wisp)
Catch the entire Everblack Podcast interview with Head below:
