Peter Katsis, the music manager who helped guide Korn, Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park, has died aged 69. In this tribute, former Firm colleague Jeff Rabhan recalls Katsis’s role in turning Korn from a Hollywood club act into a major global live band, while portraying the management company as unusually collective and loyal.

The article places Katsis’s career in the early-2000s rock and nu-metal boom, when MTV, physical album releases and large-scale shared media moments gave music particular cultural reach. Rabhan describes Korn headlining Portugal’s Paredes de Coura festival in August 2002 before tens of thousands of fans, and argues that the era’s intensity reflected a country still processing the aftermath of 11 September 2001.