Requiem

Requiem is the fourteenth studio album by Korn, released in February 2022 on Loma Vista Records and produced by Chris Collier, a concise 10-track album running 32 minutes, released in the early pandemic recovery period, and notable for its brevity and directness compared to the sprawling format of earlier Korn releases. Davis wrote all lyrics; 'Start the Healing,' 'Forgotten,' 'Lost in the Grandeur,' and 'Worst Is on Its Way' are among the principal tracks, with a production approach that emphasized clarity and sonic space over density. Requiem debuted at number three on the Billboard 200 with 39,000 first-week units, the band's highest chart position since The Path of Totality, and received positive critical reviews that noted the album's focused execution and the continued vitality of Davis's voice and lyrical specificity. The album is the most recent entry in a catalog that spans nearly three decades and documents one of the more consistent long-arc creative trajectories in heavy metal history, from the trauma-based confessional framework of the 1994 debut through the grief-narrative of The Nothing and into the stripped reflections of Requiem. Requiem's combination of brevity, critical acclaim, and commercial performance, its highest chart position in over a decade, suggests that the compact, focused approach to the Korn formula may represent the most creatively and commercially sustainable direction for a band navigating its fourth decade, and the album's existence confirms the extraordinary creative and commercial longevity of a group that has remained relevant across the entirety of the streaming era's transformation of the music industry.