“Alone I Break” by Korn

Korn wrote "Alone I Break" for Untouchables, their fifth studio album, and released it as the record's third single in November 2002. Michael Beinhorn produced, Frank Filipetti recorded and Andy Wallace mixed, and every guitar on it came off a custom Ibanez double-neck.

Jonathan Davis turns the band inward here, singing about the depression and suicidal thoughts he had lived through, and the song swaps the usual bludgeon for a sinking ache in G# minor. Radio was less keen than on the album's first two singles, and it barely scraped the top twenty of Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart. The video came out of an MTV contest, mtvTREATMENT, won by 25-year-old Sean Dack, who shot it as a reality show in which Davis kills off his bandmates.

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