In August 2025, at Lollapalooza Chicago—an annual festival launched in 1991 as a hub for alternative music, drawing over 400,000 attendees to Grant Park—California nu-metal pioneers Korn, whose album Follow the Leader (1998) sold over 10 million copies, returned after a 28-year absence. Their hour-long set, brimming with James "Munky" Shaffer's aggressive riffs and Jonathan Davis’s emotive delivery, centered on classics, embodying the band's resilience through decades of evolution from underground roots to festival command, where breakdowns evoked collective catharsis among the crowd.