History Music / Korn

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: "Counting on Me".

* DrowningMySorrows: "Chi".

!!ALL DAY I DREAM ABOUT TROPES!:

** "Trapped Underneath the Stairs", a bonus track for ''Korn III: Remember Who You Are'', does this in the chorus (without the Korn III).

* {{Bowdlerise}}

* StudioChatter: The album version of "Clown" starts with about a minute of the band goofing around after a couple of false starts, as well as David Silveria complaining that he'd rather be playing "Twist," a song that wouldn't be recorded for the next album.

* BaldOfAwesome: Fieldy in the band's early years.

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: For obvious reasons, Korn tends to reside on the higher single digits of the scale, usually around the 5-7 range. ''Untouchables'' is arguably one of their heaviest albums, with songs going up to as high as 8 or 9, helped in no small part by the [[EchoingAcoustics production]]. ''The Path of Totality'' occasionally creeps up to 10 due to the heavy [[{{Dubstep}} brostep]] and HarshNoise influences.

* BadassBeard: All of them.

* BigShutUp: "Right Now"

* AerithAndBob: Jonathan Davis and both drummers (David Silveria and later, Ray Luzier) alongside Fieldy, Munky and Head.

** The HalloweenEpisode of WesternAnimation/SouthPark "Korn's Groovy Pirate Ghost Mystery", a WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo {{Homage}}. They at one point pull a [[ThePowerOfRock Power of Rock]]-esque OneWingedAngel moment. The band also debuted its single "Falling Away from Me" after solving the ScoobyDooHoax. The song's content and heaviness rather surprises the townspeople gathered, as it heavily contrasts the band's sunny disposition throughout the episode.

* RearrangeTheSong: The band's first demo tape ''Neidermeyer's Mind'' had the song "Alive" on it. The band reused the music as "Need To" on their first album, and "Alive" remained exclusive to the demo tape for 10 years, inspiring great interest from fans. "Alive" was eventually rerecorded for ''Take a Look in the Mirror'' to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the tape. The rerecording is in a different key and the music has been changed somewhat from the "Need To" arrangement, though the lyrics and chorus remain the same.

* TakeThat: Despite the lyrics being very ambiguous, "[[ClusterFBomb Y'All Want a Single]]" (especially its videoclip) is a song against the music business.

* AerithAndBob: Jonathan Davis and the drummer alongside Fieldy, Munky and Head.

[[DescribeTopicHere AAAARRRRREEE YOOOUUUUU REEEEEAAAADYYYYYYYY.... to describe Korn?]]

Korn (often stylized as [=KoRn=] or KoЯn) are a HeavyMetal band who formed in 1993 from Bakersfield, UsefulNotes/{{California}}. They're known for their distinct form of AlternativeMetal which blends funk-influenced bass playing, downtuned guitars with little to no soloing, angsty lyrics and, much later, ElectronicMusic.

Along with Music/RageAgainstTheMachine and Music/FaithNoMore, they were instrumental in bringing [[FunkMetal funk]]- and [[RapMetal hip-hop-inspired metal]] to the mainstream in the mid-to-late nineties. More than their contemporaries, however, Korn's particular musical style was the TropeMaker for the genre that would later be dubbed NuMetal, which would blow up in popularity in [[TurnOfTheMillennium the later half of the decade and early years of the new millennium]] thanks to bands like Music/LimpBizkit and Music/LinkinPark borrowing heavily from Korn's style and achieving widespread commercial success (Korn themselves would {{lampshade|Hanging}} this by titling their third album ''Music/FollowTheLeader'').

Despite (or rather because of) this influence on an entire genre of music, Korn have often rejected the nü metal label not only for the negative stereotypes associated with it (such as it's [[StrictlyFormula formulaic]] sound, "[[{{Wangst}} whiny]]" lyrics and [[MisaimedFandom unintentional popularity with the kind of toxically macho young men the songs are meant to demonize]]) but out of a personal preference to simply let their music speak for itself, to the point that they don't even like being classified as metal. In their own words, "Korn is Korn."

As for their own presence in mainstream pop-culture, though not averse to commercialism, Korn more or less live by their own principals. On the one hand, they were a staple on mid- to late-nineties MTV with hits like "Freak On A Leash," "Falling Away From Me" and "Here To Stay" being shown in semi-regular rotation, as well as a reasonably successful ''Unplugged'' special; they've also released a number of remix [=EPs=] and, at the height of {{dubstep}}'s popularity in 2011, recorded an entire [[GenreMashup dubstep-metal]] album, ''The Path of Totality''. On the other, they've never chased success and have used their early popularity to maintain a healthy "under the radar" reputation as they continue to tour and record albums (the one attempt at their record label asking them to write a single resulted in [[WriterRevolt the deliberately angry and sarcastic "Y'All Want A Single"]]), and while they reject both labels, they remain a popular act in the heavy metal scene as one of the few truly good nü metal bands.

* UnfortunateNames: Davis named two of his kids Pirate and Zeppelin.

* {{Mondegreen}}: In "Falling Away from Me", towards the end of the bridge, Davis shouts out "FALLING!!!", which almost sounds like an AtomicFBomb.

* BulletDodgesYou: Neo can evade bullets by hacking into the Matrix with his mind. According to the video to "Freak on a Leash", Jonathan Davis can stop, alter the trajectory and ''repel'' a bullet. Mostly by shouting '''GO!!''' at it.

[[AC:Live albums

* 1994 - ''[[Music/KornAlbum Korn]]''
* 1996 - ''Life is Peachy''
* 1998 - ''[[Music/FollowtheLeader Follow the Leader]]''
* 1999 - ''Issues''
* 2002 - ''Untouchables''
* 2003 - ''Take a Look in the Mirror''
* 2005 - ''See You on the Other Side''
* 2007 - ''[[LighterAndSofter MTV Unplugged]]''
* 2007 - ''[[NoTitle Untitled]]''
* 2010 - ''Korn III - Remember Who You Are''
* 2011 - ''[[NewSoundAlbum The Path of Totality]]''
* 2013 - ''The Paradigm Shift''
* 2016 - ''The Serenity of Suffering''
* 2019 - ''The Nothing''

!!!Their lineup consists of:

!!!Former member(s)

!!!Discography:

* IntercourseWithYou: "Getting Off", "Inside Out", "10 or a 2-Way", "It's Me Again", "Beat It Upright", "[[FunWithAcronyms A.D.I.D.A.S.]]".

* EverythingsLouderWithBagpipes: Jonathan played bagpipes in high school and transferred his talent to Korn. Now at least [[OncePerEpisode once per album]], there's gonna be some bagpipes somewhere in the songs, and somewhere in the live shows.

* FunWithAcronyms: "A.D.I.D.A.S.": A[[spoiler:ll]] D[[spoiler:ay]] I D[[spoiler:ream]] A[[spoiler:bout]] S[[spoiler:ex]].

Korn (sometimes rendered as [=KoRn=] or KoЯn) are a HeavyMetal band who formed in 1993 from Bakersfield, UsefulNotes/{{California}}. They're known for their distinct form of AlternativeMetal which blends funk-influenced bass playing, downtuned guitars with little to no soloing, angsty lyrics and, much later, ElectronicMusic.

** "A.D.I.D.A.S" had two edits, one in which ever use of "fucking" is replaced with "humpin'" and another in which every f-bomb was replaced with Jonathan making creepy orgasmic noises.

* AddledAddict: Brian Welch, and it led to him leaving the band and converting to Christianity. By the end of his original run, he was a raging alcoholic, borderline methhead, and also had a problem with benzodiazepines, and the road warrior lifestyle was enabling all of it and was going to lead to a spectacular crash if he didn't leave of his own accord.