Picking on Mr. Korn Hit the Mainstream:. Though still working in a metal vein, Korn further emphasized hip-hop elements in their music — particularly with their rhythm section and keyboard sound effects — to produce a rap-rock amalgam of the two genres. Family Values Tour:. With Follow the Leader a major success, Korn launched a festival concert series called the Family Values Tour that year. Since , the tour has been an almost-annual event, taking its longest break between and Capitalizing on Success:.
Now embraced by the mainstream, Korn took full advantage, releasing their next album, Issues , only 15 months after Follow the Leader. Although a commercial hit as well, Issues lacked the spark that made Follow the Leader such an artistic leap forward. Korn in a Shifting Musical Landscape:. By the time Untouchables hit shelves, the mainstream music landscape had shifted away from nu-metal toward moody, atmospheric rock.
Reflecting the changing sonic landscape of the early 21st century, Untouchables completely did away with hip-hop rhyming and rhythms, favoring eerie tones that sometimes recalled industrial-rock artists like Nine Inch Nails.
Going Back to the Basics:. Representing a back-to-basics consolidation of their strengths, Take a Look in the Mirror played like a more mature, sophisticated version of their self-titled debut.
He had trouble at home, too. After he acquired a drum kit, his stepfather destroyed it during an argument. Uncomfortable living in that home, Davis moved in with his father and stepmother, which was an even worse situation. As a teenager, future Korn singer Jonathan Davis loved horror movies and other kinds of dark and spooky pop culture, and he found himself the most metal job possible that also played into his interests: Davis worked as a mortician's assistant at a funeral home and in the Kern County Coroner's Department in California.
Upon graduating high school, he enrolled in the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science, although he later dropped out to work closer to his home in Bakersfield.
Altogether, Davis spent six years working on and around the recently and suddenly deceased, embalming them and performing autopsies, and it left some deep psychological scars. Korn guitarist James "Munky" Shaffer plays in a distinctive and original metal-meets-hip-hop groove manner. Being a musician has clearly worked out well for Shaffer, creatively and professionally, so it's surprising that he only ever took up the guitar after a gruesome injury.
According to Leah Furman's Korn: Life in the Pit , a year-old Munky snuck out of his house one night to go to a keg party. As he attempted to ride his bicycle away to an evening of teenage drunken debauchery, the bike's chain came loose and started to make a loud thwacking noise. If he didn't silence that sound immediately, his parents would've heard him trying to ride away, so Munky grabbed for the chain Munky had no feeling in the partially severed finger at first, but doctors were able to save it.
As a form of rehabilitation, and to restore function, a doctor recommended Munky take up an instrument — he picked the guitar. By the time he started singing for Korn in his twenties, Jonathan Davis was already using alcohol to self-medicate his emotional wounds, and the substance abuse ramped up when Korn took off.
Touted by Korn as a reconsideration of their sound they even included a reworking of Neidermayer demo track "Alive" , the album was accompanied by the Back to Basics tour, which saw the band playing smaller venues with old friends Limp Bizkit. Despite the album going multi-platinum, this era would mark the start of the band's decline in mainstream popularity, a period made even worse by the departure of founding guitarist Welch , who left the band in after converting to Christianity.
Korn forged forth, playing shows that summer as a quartet and signing an expansive recording and development deal with Virgin. The following December they released See You on the Other Side , a number three hit that featured a batch of hook-ready songs co-written with hitmaking pop production team the Matrix Avril Lavigne , Britney Spears.
Other Side would be the band's final work with their founding drummer Silveria , who left the band in Later that year, the band resurfaced with an underwhelming album that was purposely left untitled sometimes referred to as Korn II. The band eventually found a permanent replacement by way of Army of Anyone 's Ray Luzier.
Looking to expand in risky new directions, Korn sought out electronic producers like Skrillex and Noisia , who helped them infuse their already heavy sound with pounding dubstep on their electronic-tinged tenth album, 's The Path of Totality. Their new sound was chronicled live the following year on Live at the Hollywood Palladium. In May , prodigal guitarist Welch guested with the band on a version of "Blind" at a show in North Carolina.
Exactly a year later, he announced that he had officially rejoined the band. With the almost original lineup back together, Korn set to work on their 11th album. For the 20th anniversary of their seminal debut, Korn embarked on a tour playing Korn in its entirety. In , the band returned to the studio to record their 12th LP. The Serenity of Suffering was released in late The first band signed was Videodrone, [14] whose singer, Ty Elam, is credited with giving Jonathan Davis singing lessons.
Over the next few years, Korn signed other acts like rapper Marz and Deadsy. Prior to the release of the band's third album, Korn produced a weekly online TV show, KornTV, [17] which documented the making of the record and featured special guests such as porn star Ron Jeremy, Limp Bizkit, and The project also gave fans the chance to call in and ask the band questions, an approach that represented one of the first times a band utilized the Internet in such a way. Korn launched a political campaign-style tour the 'Korn Kampaign' to promote the release of Follow the Leader.
They talked to fans and answered questions during special "fan conferences", which were organized at every stop along the tour route, and signed autographs. Jim Rose hosted the entire "Kampaign" tour. The album was a complete success, debuting at 1 on Billboard with , copies sold, [19] and spawning the singles "Got the Life" and "Freak on a Leash". Follow the Leader is the band's most commercially-successful album, being certified 5x Platinum by the RIAA and having sold almost ten million copies worldwide.
Korn were not featured on the bill and instead only made surprise appearances at a few of the stops to perform "Falling Away From Me" from "Issues". The tour took a break in The band's fourth album, Issues , produced by Brendan O'Brien, was released on November 16, , featuring cover art designed by Alfredo Carlos, who won a contest held for the fans by MTV.
It debuted at 1 on the Billboard with more than , copies sold, [25] keeping Dr. Dre's long-awaited album and Celine Dion's greatest hits album from hitting 1. To celebrate the album's release, the band performed the record in its entirety in front of a live audience at New York's historic Apollo Theater and broadcast the concert simultaneously across many radio stations.
This special event featured the NYPD marching drum and bagpipe band conducted by Richard Gibbs as well as a group of back-up singers to enhance the more melodic choruses Davis used on the album.
Every video was a staple on Total Request Live , two of which made it to retirement. For the Sick and Twisted Tour, following the release of the Issues album, the band allowed fans attending each show on the tour to vote for that show's setlist.
The voting was done on the band's official website. Fans were given the chance to vote for their 5 favorite songs from each of Korn's albums.
The votes were tallied and a unique setlist was created and played for each stop along the tour. The first leg of the tour lasted from February to April , at which time the band jumped onto the Summer Sanitarium tour until returning to the Second leg of the tour in July and finishing in August. On June 10, , after a year and a half of hard work and a long creative process, Korn re-emerged into the media spotlight with their fifth album, Untouchables.
It debuted at number 2 on the Billboard with , in sales. The band has blamed Internet piracy for the drop in sales, as an unmastered version of the album had leaked three months prior to its official release date.
The release of this album was preceded by a show at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York, a day prior to the album's release, broadcast digitally throughout U. Untouchables featured electronic beats, strings and various guitar effects the band had never used in an album before. The overall feel was drastically different from previous efforts, particularly tracks like "Alone I Break", "Hating," and "Hollow Life," which singer Jonathan Davis claims is one of his favorite Korn songs to this day.
The first video, "Here to Stay", has the band playing inside a TV with a static background along with controversial news stories and world issues being presented. Angelina Jolie appeared in the Dave Meyers-directed video. Korn released their greatest hits album, Greatest Hits Vol. The album debuted at 4 on Billboard, selling more than , copies. The first single was a cover of the song "Word Up!
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