Follow the Leader is the third studio album by the nu metal band Korn. It was released on August 18, 1998, through both Immortal and Epic Records. 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 the band’s most commercially successful album, being certified five times Platinum by the RIAA.
Its singles, Got the Life and Freak on a Leash, both charted on more than three charts, and their music videos are considered to be the first music videos retired from MTV, most notably the MTV show Total Request Live. The album generally received positive reviews by critics and sold around 14 million copies worldwide.
The Family Values Tour promoted the album, along with its five singles. The song Freak on a Leash was nominated for nine MTV Video Music Awards, and won for the Best Rock Video award, as well as Best Editing. The music video for Freak on a Leash won Best Short Form Music Video at the 2000 Grammy Awards.
Tracklist:
- It’s On!
- Freak on a Leash
- Got the Life
- Dead Bodies Everywhere
- Children of the Korn (featuring Ice Cube)
- B.B.K.
- Pretty
- All in the Family (featuring Fred Durst)
- Reclaim My Place
- Justin
- Seed
- Cameltosis (featuring Tre Hardson)
- My Gift to You
- Earache My Eye (hidden track)
Korn
Jonathan Davis: vocals, bagpipes
Head: guitar
Munky: guitar
Fieldy: bass, vocals on Earache My Eye
David Silveria: drums
Additional vocalists
Fred Durst: on All in the Family
Tre Hardson: on Cameltosis
Ice Cube: on Children of the Korn
Cheech Marin: on Earache My Eye
Production staff
Todd McFarlane and Greg Capullo: artwork
Brian Haberlin: artwork (coloring)
Joseph Cultice: photography
Tommy D. Daugherty: programming
John Ewing Jr.: engineer, assistant engineer
Ross Robinson: vocal coaching
Stephen Marcussen: mastering
Brendan O’Brien: mixing
Steve Thompson: producer
Don C. Tyler: digital editing
Justin Z. Walden: additional drums, programming
Toby Wright: producer, engineer
