The Nothing

The Nothing is the thirteenth studio album by Korn, released in September 2019 on Roadrunner Records and produced by Nick Raskulinecz, recorded in the aftermath of Davis's wife's death and addressing grief, loss, and depression with the same confessional specificity that had characterized the band's earliest work. Davis wrote all lyrics; the album's themes are the most personally raw since the self-titled debut, with 'Cold,' 'The Seduction of Indulgence,' 'Finally Free,' and the title track addressing bereavement through the same confessional framework that made the 1994 debut distinctive. The album debuted at number five on the Billboard 200 with 43,000 first-week units and has been certified gold in the United States; 'Cold' reached number one on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart. The Nothing is regarded by critics as the most emotionally direct and artistically significant album of Korn's second decade, with the biographical context giving the grief-themed material a weight that the band's output had not consistently carried since Issues. The Nothing's grief-narrative context and its exceptional critical reception within the Korn catalog demonstrate that the confessional emotional honesty of the 1994 debut remained the band's deepest and most creatively fertile artistic resource, and the album's commercial performance, top-five Billboard 200, confirmed that biographical authenticity continues to generate genuine commercial engagement from the audience that has followed the band for three decades.