Requiem is the best Korn album since 2011’s The Path Of Totality, their flirtation with dubstep that heralded the second life of one of metal’s most successful outfits. Admittedly, the records since then have been the definition of a mixed bag, though assessing the Bakersfield legends’ oeuvre is far from straightforward; the lesser efforts feature career-best tracks, just as the stronger ones contain a fair amount of filler. Album number 14 finds Jonathan Davis in one of the most interesting places of his career, lyrically. Not in the throes of despair that came to a head on 2019’s The Nothing — the band’s bleakest moment to date, written after the deaths of his mother and estranged wife – but a seemingly happier, more settled existence. But Jonathan, a man wh...