10 Most Expensive Rock Albums Ever Made

3. Untouchables - Korn ($3 Million)

Both the Foo Fighters and Korn dropped an album in 1999 and then spent the next three years making another one that ended up being very expensive.

Except, somehow, Korn's project cost three times more.

The band wanted Untouchables to be a masterpiece. In the words of singer Jonathan Davis, he wanted "an amazing sounding rock record that could never be made again."

That sounds like a man who's willing to drop three mil on an album.

Across that whole two years they were working on Untouchables, the band kept a 15 person crew on retainer. This included renting five houses at a cost of ten grand a month each.

Each!

Why did it take so long for the record to get made? Because producer Michael Beinhorn was a madman.

He spent an entire month recording the drums and about five or six recording Davis' vocals. This included sending the man home after a single take on some days because his voice "didn't sound right".

Surely the record label would understand...

In the end, Untouchables ending up selling and reviewing really well.

There's only one thing to say to that - thank God.

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Jacob Simmons has a great many passions, including rock music, giving acclaimed films three-and-a-half stars, watching random clips from The Simpsons on YouTube at 3am, and writing about himself in the third person.