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Follow the Leader is the third studio album by American nu metal band Korn. The album was released on August 18, 1998, through ImmortalEpic. This was their first album not produced by Ross Robinson. Instead, it was produced by Steve Thompson and Toby Wright. The album peaked at number one on four charts, including the Billboard 200 with 268,000 units sold in its first week of release, Follow the Leader is considered by members of Korn to be the band's most commerciallysuccessful album, being. Follow The Leader. All In the Family. Album 1998 14 Songs. The bands frenzied versatility shows through in slow-burner Justin, with Head and Munky extracting crunches and squeals from their guitars, while Ice Cubes appearance on Children of the Korn lends street cred to the bands freakiest rap-rock urges. Follow the Leader is the third studio album by American nu metal band Korn, the album was released on August 18, 1998. Follow the Leader is recognized as their mainstream breakthrough, and the album that ultimately ushered nu metal and re-ushered heavy metal into the mainstream. With more than 7 million copies sold in the U. and 7 million copies sold out of the U. it is their best selling album. Korn - Follow The Leader 1998. Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin. In early 1998, Korn began work on their third album Follow The Leader in an atmosphere loaded with excessive alcohol, drugs and sex. Instead of using producer Ross Robinson as theyd done on their first two albums, the band chose Steve Thompson and Toby Wright and recorded at NRG Recording Studios in LA. Follow The Leader, featuring cover art by award-winning comic book artist Todd MacFarlane, debuted at 1 in the US on the strength of the bands already-established following combined with the success of the new albums lead single Got The Life. But behind the scenes of Follow The Leader, things were going off the rails. It seems crazy to be celebrating the 20th anniversary of Korns groundbreaking third album, Follow The Leader, and yet here we are. Twenty years quite literally a lifetime to younger readers who have grown up with the band. Korn were and still are one of a kind: ever evolving, always leading where others follow. Korn - Follow the Leader review: Nu metal godfathers springboard their scene into the mainstream. Love them or hate them, no-one can deny that Korn have been one of the most important bands in the development of mainstream metal over the last two decades. Their simple, yet effective formula of crunching, down-tuned guitars, hip hop rhythms and schizophrenic vocal stylings was swiftly copied by hundreds of inferior clones. This new form of metal, appropriately titled nu metal , would soon invade radio rock and fill the airwaves with bass-heavy nuggets of musical distress. More than anything, Korn are about sound. They write songs, but those wind up not being nearly as memorable as their lurching metallic hip-hop grind. They have yet to exhaust that sound, and that's why their third album, Follow the Leader, is an effective follow-up to their first two alt-metal landmarks. Not that it offers anything new - it's the same sound, offered in a more focused forum than Life Is Peachy, but not sounding as fresh as Korn. When Korn released their third album, Follow the Leader, on August 18, 1998, they knew they were the s-t, but they had no idea how much of a s-tstorm the record would stir up for them personally and professionally. If Korn's self-titled 1994 album and 1996 follow-up Life Is Peachy landed the band on the map, Follow the Leader put them in contention for world domination, selling more than 5 million copies in less than four years. To date, it has sold more than 7 million in the U. and in excess of 14 million worldwide, making it the band's most popular record. But with mass popular