Korn @ Fiddlers Green Amphitheater

Korn ROCKED their show at Fiddlers Green Amphitheater on October 16, 2024 in Denver, Colorado. Gojira and Spiritbox took the stage first, leaving the audience wanting more.

Gojira

Named after the original Japanese pronunciation of Godzilla, French heavy metal quartet Gojira rose from obscurity to global recognition. They blend thrash, death, math, groove, progressive, and post-metal with philosophical and environmental themes. The band gained mainstream success in 2012 with L’Enfant Sauvage, followed by 2016’s Grammy-nominated Magma and 2021’s versatile Fortitude.

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Spiritbox

Vancouver’s Spiritbox blends ’90s-inspired melodic alternative metal with ethereal vocals and EVP (electronic voice phenomena) recordings. Influenced by TesseracT, Deftones, and Evanescence, their sound fuses metalcore, nu-metal, prog, shoegaze, and djent, with Courtney LaPlante’s voice shifting from melodic beauty to raw screams. They debuted with a well-received EP in 2017, followed by their chart-topping album Eternal Blue in 2021. In 2022, they released the Rotoscope EP, and in 2023, they earned a Grammy nomination for “Jaded” from Fear of Fear. That year, they also teamed up with Megan Thee Stallion for a fiery remix of “Cobra.”

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Korn

Korn’s cathartic sound positioned the group as one of the most popular and provocative acts to emerge during the 1990s. At the forefront of the nu-metal/rap-rock movement of the time, they quickly evolved, developing a trademark style that incorporated downtuned guitars, a groove-heavy rhythm section, haunted atmospheric production, and dark lyrics courtesy of frontman Jonathan Davis, who grappled with common themes such as childhood trauma, destructive behavior, and inner demons. (They even managed to make scatting and bagpipes — Davis’ signature instrument — menacing.) Their landmark 1994 debut, Korn, built an underground audience for its follow-up, 1996’s Life Is Peachy, which launched the band from the lower reaches of the charts into the Top Three.

Just four years after emerging, they had a number one release: the blockbuster Follow the Leader, home to “Freak on a Leash” and “Got the Life.” Closing the decade atop the charts with Issues, Korn remained one of the biggest U.S. rock acts into the 2000s, issuing a string of platinum-certified albums: Untouchables, Take a Look in the Mirror, and See You on the Other Side. After a few directional detours at the close of the 2000s, they made a turn into the electronic world, hiring dance acts including Skrillex to help produce the dubstep-blasted The Path of Totality in 2011.

As the 2010s came to a close, Korn showed no signs of settling into a comfort zone; The Paradigm Shift, The Serenity of Suffering, and The Nothing all furthered their sonic development as they attained elder-statesmen status. The band approached their third decade together as a unit in 2022 with their 14th album, Requiem.

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