Korn ‘Reward The Scars’ video has officially landed, dragging the band back into the spotlight with their first new music in over four years, now paired with a dark, cinematic clip tied to Diablo IV: Lord of Hatred.
The track itself surfaced last week and even got a live debut at Sick New World in Las Vegas on April 26th, but this rollout is clearly about the visual, and it leans hard into it.
A Natural Fit Between Two Dark Worlds
Korn have never shied away from digging into trauma, survival, and the uglier parts of the human psyche, so linking up with Diablo doesn’t feel like a forced crossover, if anything it feels overdue.
“I’ve played Diablo for years, so getting to step into that world creatively felt natural,” frontman Jonathan Davis said (per press release).
“I’ve always connected to the darkness in the game and the idea of confronting what lives beneath the surface –– that’s something Korn has explored in our music from the beginning. ‘Reward the Scars’ came out of our own writing sessions as a new Korn song, and it became clear pretty quickly that it was a natural fit for Diablo.”
The video mirrors that energy, it’s built around dread and tension rather than flashy spectacle, pulling imagery straight from Diablo’s bleak universe and blending it with Korn’s usual emotional weigh, check it out below:
More Than Just A Soundtrack Drop
Blizzard aren’t treating this like background noise either, the release lines up with the launch of ‘Diablo IV: Lord of Hatred’, the next expansion that pushes the game toward a final confrontation with Mephisto.
“This collaboration came together naturally—Korn and Diablo live in that space of confronting darkness head-on,” said Blizzard’s Kevin Bjelajac. “With Lord of Hatred, we’re telling a story about consequence, choice, and what it means to embrace—or resist—the pull of evil. ‘Reward the Scars’ captures that spirit perfectly.”
For Korn, it’s a reminder that even after three decades, they’re still capable of slipping into new spaces without losing what made them hit in the first place, and while there’s no full album attached yet, fingers crossed we hear more soon.
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