History Trivia / Korn

* OldShame: Head came to regret some of his more over-the-top antics when he first found religion, feeling it had become just as much of an addiction as the drugs he was trying to get off of at the time. When the band saw a photo spread of him in a white robe near a body of water, they were sincerely worried that he had lost his mind. While Head still considers his faith in Christ a major foundation of his life, he also says he's not interested in being "overly religious" anymore.

** Jonathan Davis was planning a video game called ''Pop Scars'', a FightingGame where you could play as not Davis, but other rock star friends of his. Huge missed opportunity that we didn't get a video game where you could play as Music/MarilynManson and beat the crap out of [[Music/LimpBizkit Fred Durst]].

* RarelyPerformedSong: Outside of a handful of early concerts, the band refused to play the song "Daddy" live due to its deeply personal subject matter of frontman Jonathan Davis' sexual abuse as a child. In 2015, Davis would relent and perform the song for a series of concerts commemorating the self-titled album's twentieth anniversary, since his abuser had died by then and thus he felt comfortable performing it.

* RarelyPerformedSong: Outside of a handful of early concerts, the band refused to play the song "Daddy" live due to its deeply personal subject matter of frontman Jonathan Davis' sexual abuse as a child. In 2015, Davis would relent and perform the song for a series of concerts commemorating their debut album's twentieth anniversary, since his abuser had died by then and he felt comfortable performing the song by then.

* NamesTheSame: Korn once did a song with rapper [[Music/ATribeCalledQuest Q-Tip]], who was born Jonathan Davis.

* ReferencedBy: In the ''WebAnimation/TheOdd1sOut'' video "The Internet Changed Me", there's a poster featuring the cover art of ''Issues'' seen in the background at the 2:56 mark.

** Davis has grown to dislike the third self-titled due to their experiences with Ross Robinson. While he still has a tremendous amount of respect for Robinson, his "warts and all" approach led to him doing things that outright pissed the band off that Davis felt weren't really necessary, namely making Davis' wife sit across from him while he tracked vocals for a song that was about her substance issues. It was that, coupled with various other things that sucked every last ounce of fun out of the recording process, that made Davis eventually come to view the album as a mistake. While Robinson's approach may have been the best thing for them in 1994, Davis concluded that by 2009, revisiting the past was not what they needed as a band. Ross himself has grown to regret the way he treated Davis in hindsight

** Davis has grown to dislike the third self-titled due to their experiences with Ross Robinson. While he still has a tremendous amount of respect for Robinson, his "warts and all" approach led to him doing things that outright pissed the band off that Davis felt weren't really necessary, namely making Davis' wife sit across from him while he tracked vocals for a song that was about her substance issues. It was that, coupled with various other things that sucked every last ounce of fun out of the recording process, that made Davis eventually come to view the album as a mistake. While Robinson's approach may have been the best thing for them in 1994, Davis concluded that by 2009, revisiting the past was not what they needed as a band. Even Ross himself has grown to regret the way he treated Davis in hindsight

** Davis has grown to dislike the third self-titled due to their experiences with Ross Robinson. While he still has a tremendous amount of respect for Robinson, his "warts and all" approach led to him doing things that outright pissed the band off that Davis felt weren't really necessary, namely making Davis' wife sit across from him while he tracked vocals for a song that was about her substance issues. It was that, coupled with various other things that sucked every last ounce of fun out of the recording process, that made Davis eventually come to view the album as a mistake. While Robinson's approach may have been the best thing for them in 1994, Davis concluded that by 2009, revisiting the past was not what they needed as a band.

** While "Here To Stay" from ''Untouchables'' is one of Korn's definitive songs, Munky personally isn't a fan of the follow-up singles from that album, "Thoughtless" and "Alone I Break". He considered "Thoughtless" more of an album track and wasn't strong enough to be a single, while "Alone I Break" was too different from their other songs to make an impact. It didn't help that "Alone" required him to use a 14-string guitar live, which with Korn's down-tuning make it difficult to keep the thing in tune. Neither song has been played live since the ''Untouchables'' tour.

* AcclaimedFlop: ''Untouchables'' was their best-reviewed album until ''The Nothing'' and even today is considered the band's creative peak, but it couldn't recoup it's hefty price tag of $3 million (see TroubledProduction), resulting in the label having to release an updated version a few weeks later and the band hastily recording ''Take a Look in The Mirror'' just to save a little face.

** The band was originally supposed to duet with Music/{{Metallica}} on their ''MTV Unplugged'' album, but Metallica was in the middle of production on ''Death Magnetic'' and Rick Rubin refused to let them leave. Korn was able to schedule Music/TheCure as a last minute replacement.

** In a retrospective review of ''Music/FollowTheLeader'', Davis was not fond of both “All in the Family”, which he stated that wouldn't be played in the albums's anniversary concerts, and "Cameltosis" (“What the fuck was I fucking thinking? I was 27. I was still really immature.”).

* FandomNickname: In the early 2000s, fans were known as the "Korn Kamp" (named after a popular fansite).

** Davis also absolutely hated what the nu metal scene turned into once it got huge, as he saw it as a cesspool of [[TestosteronePoisoning toxic masculinity]] that had gone from being a safe space for people like him who had nothing but bad experiences during their formative years, to being a playground for the same dickheads who made his life hell when he was younger. He also hated how it had gone from being a creative genre with no rules to a derivative genre flooded with third-tier bands who were just chasing money and copying whatever was big at the moment, and by the time nu metal initially crashed and burned, he openly admitted that he wasn't even listening to anything new in the genre because he was so bored with it.

* OneHitWonder: Technically, "Did My Time" was their only top 40 hit on the Hot 100, but they are one of the most well known rock bands of the 90's. Not to mention, "Did My Time" is certainly not their most famous song--that would probably be "Freak on a Leash."

* HitlessHitAlbum: Korn has sold over 40 million albums worldwide, yet they barely scored a Top 40 hit in 2003 with [[ChartDisplacement a song that isn't close to being their signature]]. At the same time, most people have heard "Blind", "Freak on a Leash", "Got the Life", and "Falling Away from Me" despite their lack of official chart success.