Korn turns 30 years old in 2023, which of course means the band is starting to think about what their legacy will be. Guitarist James "Munky" Shafffer said in an interview with Radioacktiva that he hopes the band can be remembered as a band "that helped people, not a band that couldn't help ourselves." Shafffer also references the band's early days of partying hard, adding that they're all in their 50s and their mentality has changed over the years.
"I think this band — well, I don't think; I know this band — in the past, like early '90s and the 2000s, we were not concerned about tomorrow so much. We were living in the moment. We were young. All we cared about was the party. 'We don't care about what happens tomorrow; we just care about today.' And that was fun. But now, with us all in our early 50s — it's hard to say [that we are that old]… it's hard to take that.
"But we don't feel like [we are that old] because the music keeps us so young. But at the same time, we have a lot of wisdom that we've collected along the way, and one of those things is we do care about how we're remembered; we care about what our children are gonna think of us; how we act now and how that's gonna carry on for a generation or two generations; how people remember our music; what we leave behind.
"All these things are just these new — it's a new insight and it's a new outlook for us. I guess, as seasoned songwriters, and we're all fathers now, we wanna be remembered as a band that helped people, not a band that couldn't help ourselves."
