{"id":556020,"date":"2026-04-29T01:03:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T01:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/556020\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T01:03:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T01:03:11","slug":"watch-korn-play-new-song-reward-the-scars-live-for-the-first-time-to-50000-people-at-sick-new-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/556020\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch KoRn play new song ‘Reward The Scars’ live for the first time to 50,000 people at Sick New World"},"content":{"rendered":"

KoRn<\/a> broke out their new track \u2018Reward The Scars\u2019 live for the first time to a 50,000-strong crowd at Sick New World at the weekend. Check out footage below.<\/p>\n

The American nu-metal icons surprise released the song last week<\/a> (Friday April 24), marking their first new music in four years and written for the Diablo IV<\/a> video game expansion, Lord Of Hatred. They\u2019ve since released the gory animated video for the track<\/a> too.<\/p>\n

Jonathan Davis<\/a> and co. performed the single for the first time at their huge headline slot at Sick New World<\/a> festival, which took place in Las Vegas on Saturday (April 25).\u00a0They debuted the single midway through their 17-song setlist, having already opened with fan favourites including \u2018Blind\u2019, \u2018Twist\u2019 and \u2018Got The Life\u2019.<\/p>\n

\"KoRn,KoRn, Sick New World 2026. CREDIT: Maurice Nunez<\/p>\n

\"KoRn,KoRn, Sick New World 2026. CREDIT: Maurice Nunez<\/p>\n

\u201cI know it\u2019s been a long-ass day, but it feels so good to be back playing for y\u2019all,\u201d the frontman told the crowd before launching into the new song.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been out touring shit a little bit, but we\u2019ve been stuck in a fucking studio for five years,\u201d he added. \u201cWe\u2019ve been working hard. We had some good shit. We got rid of that, and then we made some badass shit. Would you guys like to hear that song? It just came out.\u201d<\/p>\n

From there the band went into the ferocious track, which is centred around thunderous bass and guitar riffs and sees Davis lead into the anthemic chorus: \u201cHelp me free the ones I saved\/ And I can walk the path that\u2019s laid\/ Break me, take me all the way soul betrayed\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The track is produced by Nick Raskulinecz, who started working with the group on their 12th album \u2018The Serenity Of Suffering\u2019, which dropped in 2016.<\/p>\n

It arrived following guitarist Brian \u2018Head\u2019 Welch teasing new music in an interview with Loudwire<\/a> at the start of the year, saying that while they were mainly focused on playing live, they did have some announcements up their sleeves for 2026.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re focusing right now on our live show,\u201d he said. \u201cIt feels like we don\u2019t even need a new album. Everything\u2019s just going so well, but that\u2019s not to say we\u2019re not going to find some time to go in again.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like it\u2019s not [a] priority right now [but] there could be a couple of surprises this year,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Before then, Welch said in 2024 that the band were well underway with their first new album since 2022\u2019s \u2018Requiem\u2019<\/a>, but confirmed that it wouldn\u2019t be arriving anytime soon as they were \u201cstill working\u201d on it.<\/p>\n

\"KoRn,KoRn, Sick New World 2026. CREDIT: Steve Thrasher<\/p>\n

\"KoRn,KoRn, Sick New World 2026. CREDIT: Steve Thrasher<\/p>\n

Their slot at Sick New World \u2013 where they topped the bill alongside System Of A Down<\/a> and Bring Me The Horizon<\/a> \u2013 comes ahead of the nu-metal giants touring across South America next month, and heading over to Europe for more shows in October.<\/p>\n

UK tour dates<\/a> kick off in Leeds on October 26, and other dates lined-up include slots in Birmingham, Newcastle, Manchester, Dublin and London. Support will come from Architects<\/a> and Youth Code, and you can find any remaining tickets here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2018Requiem\u2019 was given a four-star review from NME, which described it as <\/a>\u201cadding a tentative touch of hope to the band\u2019s discography\u201d.<\/p>\n

It read: \u201c2019\u2019s \u2018The Nothing\u2019<\/a> found frontman Jonathan Davis<\/a> crushed by grief. The follow-up adds a tentative touch of hope to the band\u2019s discography. It would be a push to call this Korn\u2019s first \u2018happy\u2019 album. More accurately, \u2018Requiem\u2019 has brought something new to a discography that, until now, has been an exploration of human suffering. It\u2019s led to the band\u2019s most nuanced record to date.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KoRn broke out their new track \u2018Reward The Scars\u2019 live for the first time to a 50,000-strong crowd…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,15226,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-556020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-nu-metal","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}