Follow the Leader (Korn album)
Occupation
- Jonathan Davis - Vocals
- Brian Welch - Guitar
- James Shaffer - Guitar
- Reginald Arvizu - Bass
- David Silveria - Drums
Follow the Leader (English for "Follow the Leader") is the third studio album by the American nu-metal band Korn. It was released on 18 August 1998 at Immortal and Epic. It was the first Korn album that was not produced by Ross Robinson. It reached quintuple platinum in the U.S. and around the world with over 14 million copies sold to date, the most successful album of the band. It topped the Billboard 200, as well as the Australian, New Zealand and Canadian charts. In Germany it gained twelfth place in Austria in seventh place of the respective charts. With the Family Values Tour, the hit album was promoted. The song Freak on a Leash was nominated for nine MTV Video Music Awards.
Formation
After Korn guitarist James Shaffer had survived meningitis in the summer of 1997, which among other things, their band headlining appearance at the Lollapalooza festival could not play, she went back into the studio in early 1998 to Follow the Leader einzuspielen. The recording process was documented in a show called KornTV. Although the group with Ross Robinson's work had been satisfied, she opted for a new team of producers, the disk slightly focused by critics opinion produced than the previous album, although only slightly changed the overall sound of the band. Except for the increased hip-hop elements as Children of the grain, where Ice Cube on Life Is Peachy still gecovert, now participated themselves. Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit contributed All in the Family, also the first single, a guest post on.
Shaping
The comic-like cover art was designed by Greg Capullo and Todd McFarlane, who also designed Ten Thousand Fists by Disturbed. It shows a girl who jumps on a ledge over a hopscotch and is quite arrived at the end, behind him followed by other children.
Title list
The album begins with twelve five -second empty pieces, so that the first piece of music carries the title number 13. From the empty tracks results in a minute's silence that was added out of respect to a deceased fan. The song Justin was also named after selbigem.
Reception
Goods grain so far been treated somewhat more skeptical than elsewhere in the German music press, was now about the Rock Hard a slight change. Michael Rensen described the song sometimes called " arg annoying " and criticized the sometimes " incoherent " song structures, but he called the album " waaaay better" than grain reputation. Most of the songs turned out " after two or three passes at the latest as absolutely understandable, convey a lot of emotions and have many oblique beautiful sound experiments at the start, which guarantee a high degree of variety. " The rating was 6.5 out of ten points. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic presented again grain sound out to be crucial for the band. However, the plate is not as "fresh" as the band's debut. He forgave four out of five stars. The album was also listed in Robert Dimerys reference book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.