Korn Tour 2026

Inside Korn

Korn are the Bakersfield five-piece who, three decades into a career that began in a rehearsal room above a chiropractor's office on Truxtun Avenue, are the band who effectively invented nu-metal — and then somehow outlasted every wave that genre produced, every backlash, and every prediction of their imminent obsolescence. Jonathan Davis (vocals), James 'Munky' Shaffer (guitar), Brian 'Head' Welch (guitar), Reginald 'Fieldy' Arvizu (bass, currently on hiatus from the live lineup), and Ray Luzier (drums, who replaced founding drummer David Silveria in 2007) have built the most-imitated heavy band of the past thirty years, a catalogue that runs from the self-titled 1994 debut through fourteen studio albums and a touring footprint that still routinely fills arenas across North America and headlines festivals across Europe and Latin America.

The signature elements are immediately recognisable: Davis's bagpipes, his scat-vocal phrasing on Freak on a Leash, his guttural lower-register growl alongside his trademark high yelp; Munky and Head's seven-string downtuned guitar interplay; Fieldy's distinctively slap-and-click bass tone that no other rock bassist of the era successfully imitated; Luzier's polished arena-rock drum precision underpinning everything. The touring catalogue has produced a generation-defining bench of songs — Blind, Shoots and Ladders, A.D.I.D.A.S., Got the Life, Freak on a Leash, Falling Away from Me, Make Me Bad, Here to Stay, Y'All Want a Single, Coming Undone, Twisted Transistor — and the live show has graduated from the warehouse circuit through arena co-headlines with the Family Values Tour to the current era of festival-anchor headlines at Welcome to Rockville, Aftershock, Hellfest, Download, and Rock am Ring.

The band has sold more than 40 million albums worldwide, won two Grammys, and remains one of the few acts to have charted a number-one album on the Billboard 200 in three different decades. Korn arrive in your city as one of the architects of modern heavy music — and the audience knows it.

About Korn

Korn formed in Bakersfield, California in 1993 when bassist Reginald 'Fieldy' Arvizu, guitarists James 'Munky' Shaffer and Brian 'Head' Welch, and drummer David Silveria — all from an earlier Bakersfield band called L.A.P.D. — recruited Jonathan Davis from the local goth-metal group Sexart on the strength of his rehearsal-room vocal range. The band relocated to Huntington Beach almost immediately, signed a development deal with Immortal Records, and recorded their self-titled debut Korn through 1993 and early 1994 with producer Ross Robinson at Indigo Ranch Studios in Malibu.

The album was released in October 1994 on Immortal/Epic and arrived to almost no radio support — but it built audience the long way, through the band's relentless touring through 1994 and 1995 on the Danzig and Megadeth and Sick of It All bills, through Davis's bagpiped opening of Shoots and Ladders, through Blind's iconic 'aaarrre you readyyyy?' opening, and through the genre-establishing combination of seven-string downtuned guitar, hip-hop-influenced rhythm phrasing, and Davis's deeply personal trauma-narrative lyrics.

The album was certified double platinum by 1996 and has gone on to sell more than ten million copies worldwide, widely regarded as the foundational text of the entire nu-metal genre. Life Is Peachy followed in October 1996, debuting at number three on the Billboard 200 on the strength of A.D.I.D.A.S. and No Place to Hide.

The commercial breakthrough was Follow the Leader in August 1998 — a number-one debut anchored by Got the Life and Freak on a Leash, whose Todd McFarlane-animated video won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Rock Video at the 1999 ceremony and won the band's first Grammy for Best Metal Performance the following year. Follow the Leader sold more than ten million copies and effectively defined the late-1990s nu-metal mainstream alongside Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park.

Issues followed in November 1999, another number-one debut, with Falling Away from Me and Make Me Bad. Untouchables (June 2002), Take a Look in the Mirror (November 2003), and See You on the Other Side (December 2005) extended the catalogue through Here to Stay, Did My Time, Y'All Want a Single, Twisted Transistor, and Coming Undone.

The band lost guitarist Brian Welch in 2005, who left amid a public Christian conversion and a battle with substance abuse, only to return seven years later in 2013. Drummer David Silveria departed in 2006 and was succeeded by Ray Luzier from Army of Anyone in early 2007.

The Untitled album followed in 2007, Korn III: Remember Who You Are in 2010, the dubstep crossover The Path of Totality in 2011, The Paradigm Shift in 2013 (marking Welch's return), The Serenity of Suffering in 2016, The Nothing in 2019, and Requiem in February 2022 — the band's fourteenth studio album. Bassist Fieldy announced a hiatus from touring in 2021 with Roberto 'Ra' Diaz of Suicidal Tendencies and others handling bass duties on subsequent tours; his return remains an open question, though he has appeared on later recordings and the band have spoken about him publicly with full warmth.

Across the run, Korn have sold more than 40 million records worldwide, won two Grammys, and become one of the few acts to chart number-one albums on the Billboard 200 in three different decades.

Korn tour

Korn tour as one of nu-metal's reliably active live institutions and a multi-decade arena and festival headliner across North America, Europe, Latin America, and Asia. The current cycle continues to draw from the Requiem (2022) record and the band's deep back catalogue, with a touring footprint that typically includes a North American arena and amphitheatre run each summer or autumn, a European arena and festival leg in early summer, and Latin American or Asia-Pacific routings as the calendar permits.

The set typically lands in the 90- to 110-minute range across 16 to 20 songs, drawing heavily from the self-titled debut, Life Is Peachy, Follow the Leader, Issues, and Untouchables, plus rotating selections from the later records and three to four songs from Requiem. The production has scaled steadily over the years — current arena routings include a customised stage set with the band's distinctive K-O-R-N drop letters on screens behind the band, full pyrotechnic and confetti rigs on the biggest songs, and bagpipe accompaniment when Shoots and Ladders enters the setlist.

Recent and regular festival appearances have included Welcome to Rockville, Sonic Temple, Aftershock, Louder Than Life, Inkcarceration, Hellfest, Download, Resurrection Fest, Rock am Ring/Rock im Park, Knotfest international editions, Rock in Rio, and Riot Fest. The band also occasionally book co-headline arena runs — past co-headline tours have included Limp Bizkit, Rob Zombie, Staind, Evanescence, and Chevelle.

Specific 2026 routing and venues should be confirmed on Ticketmaster, korn.com, and the festival's official pages as legs are announced and dates shift.

Korn tickets

Korn tickets are sold primarily through Ticketmaster in North America and the UK, AXS for venues operated by AEG, See Tickets and Eventim for European theatre and arena dates, and regional primary partners across Latin America and Asia. Pricing varies sharply by venue type — arena upper-tier seats typically run $50–$90 USD, mid-bowl seats $90–$160, lower-bowl and floor pit $180–$320, with VIP packages including early entry, dedicated viewing platforms, signed lithographs, and merchandise bundles starting around $350 and climbing past $1,000 for soundcheck and meet-and-greet experiences when offered.

Amphitheatre dates run slightly tighter on the lawn — $40–$70 general admission — with reserved pavilion seating in the $90–$220 range. Theatre dates on the rare smaller-venue routings run $85 to $250 general admission floor.

Festival access is bundled into the event's general admission and VIP tiers rather than sold per-artist. Fan club presales through korn.com run for most major on-sales, generally a week ahead of the public sale; Ticketmaster Verified Fan registration is increasingly in place for high-demand North American dates.

Secondary market reality for in-demand cities — Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, London, Mexico City, São Paulo, and any festival headline date — is that face value disappears quickly and the cleanest verified resale routes are Ticketmaster Verified Resale and AXS Official Resale, both of which cap resale at face plus fees in most jurisdictions. Avoid generic search-ad ticket sites; many sell tickets they do not yet hold.

Apple Wallet and Google Wallet mobile tickets are standard at most dates — confirm the delivery method in your Ticketmaster account before show day.

Korn setlist — what they play

The Korn setlist on a typical headline night runs 16 to 20 songs across a 90- to 110-minute set, structured to land the catalogue anchors and new material at full force. The show typically opens with an aggressive opener — Here to Stay, Blind, or Right Now have all anchored the slot — then runs into a Follow the Leader or Issues anchor like Got the Life, Falling Away from Me, or Make Me Bad.

The middle of the set draws from Untouchables, the self-titled debut, and recent records — Twist (the scat instrumental that often slots in as a transition), Coming Undone, Twisted Transistor, A.D.I.D.A.S., Y'All Want a Single, and Forgotten or Black Is the Soul from the newer cycle. The bagpipe-led Shoots and Ladders is one of the show's signature moments — Davis emerging with Highland bagpipes, the audience screaming the nursery-rhyme melody — and almost always lands mid-set.

Clown and Faget rotate through on heavier nights. The back-third anchor is almost always Freak on a Leash with the full scat-vocal middle eight and a deliberate audience callback section, and the show usually closes on Got the Life or Blind with full pyro, confetti, and the K-O-R-N drop letters illuminated behind the band.

Night-by-night variation is genuinely real — the band rotate 25 to 30 songs across a leg and pull deeper cuts (Need To, Helmet in the Bush, Daddy, Beg for Me, Word Up) into the rotation for repeat fans. Setlist.fm is the most reliable real-time source for confirming exactly what your specific date is playing.

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