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The Nothing (2019)

Where the lyrics of The Nothing take you, and where it was really made.

The title comes from a villain in The NeverEnding Story, and Davis spent about four months on the vocals, far longer than the two weeks he said a typical Korn record takes.

Key places

Rock Falcon Studio, Nashville (2019)

Recording site Nashville — Discogs lists Rock Falcon Studio as a place where this album was recorded. The point is at Nashville city-center level, not the exact studio building. Google Maps · Apple Maps

How to get there: See the map for directions.

Buck Owens Studio, Bakersfield (2019)

Recording site Fat Tracks — Discogs lists Buck Owens Studio as a place where this album was recorded. The point is at Bakersfield city-center level, not the exact studio building. Google Maps · Apple Maps

How to get there: See the map for directions.

Album story

Overview

• The Nothing: thirteenth studio album by American nu metal band Korn
• Released September 13, 2019 through Roadrunner and Elektra
• Produced by Nick Raskulinecz
• Title said to be inspired by a villain from The NeverEnding Story

Background

• First album recorded after the deaths of Jonathan Davis's wife Deven and mother Holly Marie Chavez
• The losses are reflected in the lyrics of songs such as "Finally Free"
• Davis treated the album as a form of personal therapy
• Some of his emotional breakdowns were recorded and kept on the album, most notably toward the end of the intro "The End Begins"
• After release, the band was scheduled to tour as co-headliners with Alice in Chains

Recording

• Davis said a typical Korn record takes two weeks, but he spent around four months recording the vocal tracks for this album
• Credits list Rock Falcon Studio and Buck Owens Studio as recording locations
• Mixed by Josh Wilbur; mastered by Ted Jensen

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · www.discogs.com

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Formation

• American nu metal band from Bakersfield, California, formed in 1993 by James "Munky" Shaffer, Reginald "Fieldy" Arvizu, and David Silveria, former members of L.A.P.D.
• Name styled KoЯn; the backwards R was borrowed from the Toys R Us logo.
• Demo Neidermayer's Mind (1993) pioneered the nu metal sound.

Members

• Current: Jonathan Davis (vocals), James "Munky" Shaffer (guitar), Brian "Head" Welch (guitar, returned 2013), Ray Luzier (drums, since 2008).
• Reginald "Fieldy" Arvizu (bass) departed in 2021; Silveria left in 2006.

Career

• Debut album Korn (1994); Life Is Peachy (1996) brought commercial breakthrough.
• Follow the Leader (1998) and Issues (1999) both debuted at number one on the Billboard 200.
• Over 40 million records sold worldwide as of 2021; two Grammy Awards from eight nominations.
• Fourteen official releases reached the Billboard 200 top ten; the band is credited as the originators of nu metal.

Reception

At release

• Metacritic: weighted average of 83 out of 100 from 6 critic scores, grouped as "universal acclaim"
• Highest Metacritic rating among Korn albums rated on the site
• AllMusic gave a positive review, calling the album one of Korn's strongest statements and its final confessional moment one of the saddest in the catalog
• Loudwire named it one of the 50 best metal albums of 2019

Records

• US Billboard 200 debut: number 8 with 33,000 album-equivalent units, 29,000 of them pure album sales
• Korn's 14th US top-10 album
• Over 80,000 traditional copies sold in the US by the end of 2020

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• The title was inspired by a villain from The NeverEnding Story, according to Davis.
• On release day, September 13, the band played an invite-only concert; four songs from the album were played, three of them never performed live before.
• On September 6, Korn announced a six-episode podcast with the same title as the album, a fictional story about a journalist investigating a teenager's disappearance in a small Kansas town.
• The first music video, for "You'll Never Find Me", was released on 18 July 2019, directed by Andrej Gavriss.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · es.wikipedia.org

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