From:
Bakersfield,
CA,
United States
Last Known Status: Active
Background
As a kid, Fieldy spent much of his adolescence "standing around in dirt fields, drinking beer, watching other kids fight." At some point, Fieldy and some friends decided their time would be better spent taking out their frustrations on musical instruments instead. And rock music would never be the same.
So Fieldy, James "Munky" Shaffer, David Silveria, Brian "Head" Wetch, and eventually, an assistant coroner with a troubled past named Jonathan Davis left Bakersfield for Los Angeles and collectively became known as Korn. It helped that they all had common influneces - the angry, urban stylings of hip-hip, the heavy, riff-driven angst of metal. But the sounds emanating from this band's Huntington Beach rehearsal space would soon set an entirely fresh musical precedent and set off a wave of imitators that eventually threatened to engulf the band itself.
After touring for nearly two years, Korn was signed by Immortal and released their now-classic eponymous 1994 debut. Korn opened with the prophetic, gravel-throated challenge "Are you ready?!" before kicking into the heaviest guitar sound yet heard in rock, thanks to the team of Shaffer and Welch, who tuned their already-low 7-string guitars even lower and played with no regard for the traditional harmonic consonance. The sound was metallica sludge, but tempered oddly by bassist Fieldy and drummer Silveria, who added a mix of porn-soundtrack funk and hip-hop rhythms tha was puzzlingly aggressive and chill. Next, nursery rhyme-like melodies were woven into the dark mix, helping make Korn the creepiest, heaviest debut since Black Sabbath. But Davis had no desire to sing about devils and witches; he was busy exorcising real-life demons. Songs such as "Faget" and "Shoots and Ladders" were discomfortingly personal confessions of shattered childhood, and by album's end Davis was literally in tears in the harrowing "Daddy."
And so they began to amass a following that would send their next album, 1996's brutal yet cheekily titled "Life is Peachy," into platinum sales. Years of touring followed again as the band fortified its fan-base to the degree that their next album, 1998's "Follow the Leader," would debut at No. 1 on the Billboard's Top 200, as would "Issues."
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Static-X Korean Tour Support Pulled
STATIC-X is the latest band to evidently have their tour support pulled. They were forced to cancel their show in South Korea, in Seoul on January 29 KORN and FEAR FACTORY are still on the bill as well as Korea's own SEOTAIJI.
Static-X Japanese and Australian Tour Dates
STATIC-X has announced a four date Japanese tour to take place directly after their Austrailian tour with FEAR FACTORY and KORN. Here are all the dates: More...
Korn's Attempt To Not Write A Single Backfires
VH1 caught up with Korn frontman, Jonathan Davis about their latest single, "Ya'll Want a Single", and how it's been surprisingly popular with fans and more.
We were sitting there just looking at each other and we were like, 'OK we've got to write this single,' and we started laughing," singer Jonathan Davis recalled backstage at KROQ-FM's recent Almost Acoustic Christmas show. "And we came up with this anti-single, which turned out great."
Ironically, their anti-single has struck such a chord with fans that Korn have decided to release it as the next single. The song is strangely catchy, and part of the appeal has to be the honesty behind the lyrics. "Y'all want a single say f--- that," is the oft-repeated chorus, while one verse finds Davis singing, "They think we're all the same/ And always we're to blame/ For sh-- I think is lame/ It's time to stop the game."
The song is even a favorite among the execs at Korn's label and management. "They always laugh," Davis said. "It's just funny, like, 'Oh, dude!' this and that, but nothing really [too offensive]. No hard feelings."
Read the full article at VH1.com.
'Ya'll Wanna A Single' Is Korn's Next Single
KORN's new single will be "Ya'll Wanna A Single", a follow-up to "Right Now".
The band's official website reads:
"The fans demanded it..KORN's putting it out. Radio does not want this song...KORN says "Fuck That." So we need you to fully support it with calls and requests."
The band has also put up some exclusive clips (windows media required) containing Johnathion explain 5 preview tracks of the new album, the producers, travel plans, and much more.
Korn Seeks To Regain Momentum
After the somewhat disappointing sales of last year's 'Untouchables', Korn is looking to reestablish itself as one of the biggest bands in rock. "I always hoped, but there's no way to imagine what it would be like," drummer David Silveria tells Geoff Harkness of the Cleveland Scene, remembering Korn's gradual rise to fame in the mid-'90s. "We saw other bands that were big and thought it would be cool. We tried and tried, and it just kind of happened."
Read the full article at Cleveland Scene.