KoRn are back on the road and have kicked off their first live show of 2024 with a huge setlist. Check it out below, as well as footage of the gig.
Taking place on Monday night (July 22), the nu-metal icons headed over to Greece, where they took to the stage at the Olympic Complex in Athens as part of Ejekt Festival.
It marked the Bakersfield band’s first live show of the year, and first performance since they performed at the 2023 edition of Sacramento’s Aftershock Festival last October.
Kicking off the 16-song set, Jonathan Davis and co. opened with ‘Rotting In Vain’, taken from their 2016 album ‘The Serenity Of Suffering’, before breaking out renditions of ‘Here To Stay’, ‘A.D.I.D.A.S’, ‘Clown’ and ‘Start The Healing’.
From there, fan-favourites like ‘Got The Life’, ‘Coming Undone’, ‘Blind’, ‘Falling Away From Me’ and ‘Shoots And Ladders’ came in thick and fast, before they wrapped up the night with their biggest hit ‘Freak On A Leash’.
The show also marked the start of their upcoming tour dates, which will see them take on a bunch more European gigs, before heading over to the UK for a run of headline shows. Check out the Athens setlist below, as well as fan-captured footage.
KoRn’s Ejekt Festival setlist was:
1. ‘Rotting in Vain’
2. ‘Here to Stay’
3. A.D.I.D.A.S.’
4. ‘Clown’
5. ‘Start the Healing’
6. ‘Blind’
7. ‘Good God’
8. ‘Got the Life’
9. ‘Falling Away From Me’
10. ‘Coming Undone’
11. ‘Somebody Someone’
12. ‘Y’All Want a Single’
13. ‘Shoots and Ladders’
14. ‘Twist’
15. ‘Did My Time’
16. ‘Freak on a Leash’
Up next, KoRn will continue their upcoming run of live shows with a slot at the Hills Of Rock festival in Bulgaria tomorrow night (July 25), where they will perform alongside artists including Bring Me The Horizon and Amon Amarth.
Next month, they’ll head over to the UK for three live dates. These kick off with a show at Scarborough’s Open Air Theatre on August 8, a Live At The Piece Hall show in Halifax the following night, and a mammoth slot at Gunnersbury Park on the 11th. The latter will see them joined by Denzel Curry, Wargasm, Spiritbox and Loathe as special guests.
After those, the band will head back across the pond in September to launch their 2024 North American tour with special guests Gojira and Spiritbox. Visit here for US tickets, here for UK tickets, and check out upcoming UK shows below.
KoRn’s upcoming UK tour dates are:
AUGUST
8 – Scarborough Open Air Theatre
9 – Halifax Live At The Piece Hall
11 – London Gunnersbury Park
New music from KoRn is set to arrive this year, according to guitarist Brian ‘Head’ Welch. The band last released their record ‘Requiem’ in February 2022, which NME gave four stars.
“It would be a push to call this Korn’s first ‘happy’ album. More accurately, ‘Requiem’ has brought something new to a discography that, until now, has been an exploration of human suffering,” it read. “It’s led to the band’s most nuanced record to date.”
In other KoRn news, back in May, the band teamed up with Adidas Originals for a second clothing collaboration.
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