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Jonathan Davis Reveals Favorite and Least Favorite Korn Albums

From the one that's "perfect" to the one where "we just didn’t know what the hell we were doing"
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Korn's Jonathan Davis, 2018

Korn's Jonathan Davis recently guested on Silverstein frontman Shane Told's "Lead Singer Syndrome" podcast (you can hear the full episode here) and opened up about a wide range of personal and professional topics, including fatherhood, sobriety, suicide within the rock community, and the 20th anniversary of his band's breakthrough LP Follow the Leader. Looking back on the Korn's catalog, he also sounded off on his favorite and least favorite of the group's albums, 2002's Untouchables and 2003's Take a Look in the Mirror, respectively, as the PRP pointed out.

"My favorite Korn record hands down is Untouchables," Davis enthused. "It was a record that we made that couldn't be made in this day — we spent over four million bucks doing that. Most of that money went to keeping our entire crew on retainer for two and a half years. That was just mistake No. 1, but we spent two and a half years working with an amazing producer, Michael Beinhorn, recording in different studios. ... That album is perfect. I call it the heavy-metal Aja [Steely Dan's 1977 album]. Sonically, you hear Aja from Steely Dan — that is a perfect record. ... It's just unreal how good [Untouchables] sounds and how much work we put into it."

He had less kind words for Take a Look in the Mirror, which, he said, "was a reaction to what we did with Untouchables." "We spent two and a half years, we did all that and that was the only album we ever did where we self-produced it," he explained. "I mean, some of the songs on there were cool — sonically, it sucks. We did it in my home studio. It lacks ... I helped produce it with the band and we just didn't know what the hell we were doing."