Korn, the Bakersfield band whose 1994 debut founded nu metal, return to the UK for a London headline night at The O2 arena with Architects and Youth Code.
Korn, the Bakersfield band whose 1994 debut is credited with founding nu metal, headline The O2 arena in North Greenwich on Wednesday 4 November 2026. Architects and Youth Code join them as special guests.
The band formed in Bakersfield, California, in 1993. James “Munky” Shaffer, Reginald “Fieldy” Arvizu and David Silveria of the band L.A.P.D. joined the guitarist Brian “Head” Welch and the singer Jonathan Davis.
The self-titled debut fused heavy, low-tuned riffs with hip-hop rhythm and Davis’s confessional voice. Life Is Peachy broke them commercially in 1996, and Follow the Leader and Issues both entered the American album chart at number one.
More than 40 million records later, they hold two Grammy Awards, for the video to “Freak on a Leash” and for “Here to Stay”. Shaffer, Welch and Davis remain at the core, with the drummer Ray Luzier since 2007.
London has followed them from the start. Their first European tour, in 1995, reached the LA2, and in February 1997 they played Brixton Academy on the Life Is Peachy tour. This is the London headline show of their Euro Tour 2026, and Requiem, released in 2022, is the most recent of their fourteen studio albums.