The Nothing by Korn

The Nothing, Korn's 13th studio album, came out through Roadrunner and Elektra on September 13, 2019, with Nick Raskulinecz producing. Jonathan Davis took the title from the villain of The NeverEnding Story, but the void at its center is personal: it was the first record he made after losing his wife Deven and his mother, and he treated the sessions as therapy. Some of his breakdowns were left on tape, most starkly as the intro "The End Begins" winds down, and grief runs straight through songs like "Finally Free".

Munky and Head grind out thick, churning riffs, Fieldy's bass rumbles underneath and Ray Luzier hammers it all into lurching grooves, but it's Davis's cracked, unguarded voice that makes the record so hard to shake. "You'll Never Find Me" carried that mood onto rock radio. Requiem followed in 2022.

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