But sobriety sent his anxiety and depression spiraling into overdrive.
After indulging in all manner of rock ’n’ roll debauchery during the album’s creation, fueled by “cocaine, speed, and just constant gallons of Jack Daniel’s,” Davis got clean for that fall’s inaugural Family Values Tour, with its pioneering mix of metal and rap (and rap-metal) support acts. The commercial prime of nu metal-more or less ushered in by Korn’s third album, the quintuple-platinum Follow the Leader, released 20 years ago this week-certainly was not a golden age for him. He is matter of fact, as though he were describing how his tangled locks are now flecked with strands of gray. Jonathan Davis, who at 47 has been Korn’s lead singer for more than half of his life, does not sound wistful, or even boastful.
“Korn, Manson, Bizkit-that was the golden age of music, I believe.
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