Here’s the setlist from Korn’s first show of 2025

There’s a month to go until Korn make their much-deserved Download headline debut, and we may have an idea of what they might play during their Donington set…

The nu-metal Bakersfield legends – vocalist Jonathan Davis, guitarists Munky and Head, and drummer Ray Luzier – just hit the stage for their first live show of 2025, topping at the bill for Sonic Temple Festival at the Historic Crew Stadium in Columbus, Ohio.

On Thursday, May 8 the band unleashed a killer 19-song setlist, opening with Blind for the first time since 2019 and wrapping up with Freak On A Leash. In between there were some surprise treats for festival-goers, with the live return of Twisted Transistor for the first time in six years, and 1999’s 4 U from Issues for the first time since 2020. Elsewhere, Korn played a ton of bangers – from Twist to Got The Life to Coming Undone (with a snippet of Queen’s We Will Rock You) and Y’all Want A Single.

Bring on Download!

Check out the full Sonic Temple setlist:

1. Blind (first time as opener since 2019)
2. Twist
3. Falling Away From Me
4. Got The Life
5. Clown
6. Did My Time
7. Shoots And Ladders
8. Here To Stay
9. Cold
10. Coming Undone (with We Will Rock You snippet)
11. A.D.I.D.A.S.
12. Twisted Transistor (first time since 2019)
13. Start The Healing
14. Somebody Someone
15. Y’All Want a Single

Encore:

16. 4 U (first time since 2020)
17. Rotting in Vain
18. Good God
19. Freak On A Leash

Korn headline Download in June alongside Green Day and Sleep Token – get your tickets here.

Read this next:

• Who are Korn’s fans?
• “I was going insane”: Korn’s Jonathan Davis looks back on Issues, the first album he made sober
• Missing links: 12 rock and metal albums that never were