In a now-deleted photo on Instagram, Korn guitarist James “Munky” Shaffer was pictured with producer Nick Raskulinecz – known for his previous work with Korn on The Nothing in 2019 – and mixing engineer Chris Lord–Alge – known for his work with Green Day and My Chemical Romance – in a studio, with the caption, “What a blast with Nick Raskulinecz and Munkey mixing Korn!! Heavy badass rock!!!”
While the photo was originally uploaded to Lord-Alge‘s personal Instagram account, it has since been removed, presumably because according to Brian “Head” Welch just last week when talking to Loudwire [as transcribed by thePRP], “We’re a fortunate band, we’ve been around for awhile and we’ve got an extensive catalogue with a lot of well-known songs. We’re focusing right now on our live show… it feels like we don’t even need a new album. Everything’s just going so well, but that’s not to say we’re not going to find some time to go in again. I feel like it’s not priority right now.”
Welch went as far to say, “I really love the fact that it’s taking a long time. I always told management that I wish that we would wait a little bit between albums. We’re just so addicted to the studio that we get in there and we’re putting albums out every two or three years, ever since I rejoined. And so, I love that there’s been delays.”
So, there’s really no telling what they were working on, if it was this album that Welch mentioned in his Loudwire interview, or something different entirely. Either way, Lord-Alge may have unknowingly broke the news of a new Korn record.
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