INSIDE REQUIEM
Korn’s track-by-track guide to album no.14
PICTURES: TRAVIS SHINN
FORGOTTEN
Head: “This was one of the first songs we wrote for the record. Jonathan’s lyrics are amazing, and I love the simplicity of the opening riff.”
“Around the time of my father’s death, I had severely slipped into bad drug use and alcoholism. I had lost both my parents now, and I didn’t want to deal with it, didn’t want to face it. I had a beautiful house by the beach, and I basically barricaded myself in, with all the windows blacked out, and turned music up really loud in every room. It was a very quiet neighbourhood until I moved in, so my neighbours must have been like, ‘This motherfucker, we can’t take this anymore…’
LET THE DARK DO THE REST
“So, one day this policeman knocked on my door, at like 6am, as the sun was rising. He asked if I had any guns in the house, and I responded, ‘If I do have any guns, you will be the first to know’, and slammed the door in his face. And about 15 minutes later, I had a SWAT team outside my house…
Jonathan: “Being happy was so foreign to me that often I’d rather be in a dark place: darkness became home. Dark feelings aren’t necessarily evil, it’s just a different energy, and I feed off that.”
“They got me out and arrested me, and they knew I was not OK: they could obviously see, like, ‘OK, not only is he high, and drunk, but he’s mentally unstable.’ I woke up handcuffed to a hospital bed in a psychiatric ward, on hold for 72 hours. And that was the moment where I was like, ‘I can’t go on like this…’”