Studio Album · No. 12
The Serenity of Suffering Songwriting Credits by KoRn
Produced by Nick Raskulinecz · Engineered by Josh Wilbur (mixing and mastering)
Holds writing credit on 11 of 11 tracks
Authorship Breakdown 11 / 11 documented
Scored across the 11 tracks with documented writers, by whether KoRn carries a lyricist or composer credit.
Share of the 11 tracks where a band member is credited, by role.
By the Numbers
The Serenity of Suffering was produced by Nick Raskulinecz, who had worked with Foo Fighters, Mastodon, and Alice in Chains, with Josh Wilbur handling both mixing and mastering. The album was recorded with the returning Brian "Head" Welch and debuted at number four on the Billboard 200 with 57,000 first-week copies. The single "A Different World" features Corey Taylor of Slipknot. US sales totaled 133,000 copies by December 2017, and the album charted in the top 10 in Germany (number three), Austria (number six), and the UK (number nine).
The Serenity of Suffering is the twelfth studio album by Korn, released in October 2016 on Roadrunner Records and produced by Nick Raskulinecz, a heavier, more guitar-forward album than its predecessor, with Corey Taylor of Slipknot appearing on the track 'A Different World' in one of the more commercially significant genre collaborations of the year. Davis wrote all lyrics; the album's 12 tracks include 'Rotting in Vain,' 'Take Me,' and 'The Hating' among the principal tracks, with the production reflecting the full-band energy and guitar prominence that the core Korn audience had identified as the band's essential sonic identity. The album debuted at number nine on the Billboard 200 and has been certified gold; 'Rotting in Vain' reached number one on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart. The Serenity of Suffering is regarded as the most consistently heavy and guitar-focused album of the band's second decade and the clearest return to first-principles nu-metal without the nostalgia framing of Korn III. The album's commercial and critical performance, gold certification, Mainstream Rock number one, confirmed that the full-lineup reunification and the return to guitar-forward heavy rock represented the most commercially stable version of the Korn formula available in the mid-2010s market, and its success validated the decision to step back from the electronic experimentation that had characterized the previous three albums.