Korn Plans Heavier New Album For July
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Launch Radio Networks reports: KORN tentatively plans to release its eighth studio album on July 17, according to an interview with the band that ran on a Los Angeles radio station yesterday morning (Tuesday, March 6). The group has been recording the disc with temporary drummer Terry Bozzio and guitarist James "Munky" Shaffer told us that Bozzio has taken KORN's music in a new direction. "It's a little less straightforward, I think, than what we're used to, and it's a lot more technical," he said. "I think it's probably more like a progressive KORN that people are gonna be used to. Very heavy though."
Bozzio is considered one of rock's greatest living drummers and is best known for his work with FRANK ZAPPA and MISSING PERSONS. He is filling in for founding KORN drummer David Silveria, who's taking a "hiatus" from the group this year.
Shaffer also said in the radio interview that his wife recently gave birth to a son named Israel. The guitarist, who was married once before, got hitched to his current wife in May.
KORN's "MTV Unplugged" CD arrived in stores yesterday (Tuesday, March 6). It documents the band's first-ever full-length acoustic performance, which was taped last December in New York City. The CD includes several songs not featured on the broadcast version, which premiered last week.
Source: Blabbermouth
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if this album actually turned out good that would be fantastic. it would make me a very happy boy indeed. i would put money on it sucking complete a$$ though. their first cd is still one of my favorites, but except for a handful of songs off life is peachy and follow the leader, the rest of their music is utter garbage.
Remember that Korn launched a trend back in the 90's when metal was going nowhere. That said, after life is peachy, they did get caught at their own game and became some kind of a cartoon version. They got lost in the trend and the money became so apealing that they chose to water down the music to gain new fans. And it just went downhill form there because ultimately, everybody could feel that the music was not made from the hearth but was made mechanicaly and with a clear and obvious goal...money !!! And they started on the road of finding a way to get bakc the fans and still gain some more which pretty much did not work out. So here they stand today, looking like a bad joke, something that is just there to make us laugh and go : yeah right !!! I agree, the next step in their careers is moving on and quit. But it'"s not like they have anything to save by doing that, it's already too late...
Well, I always thought that when your a musician, especially in the field of heavier music, you need some kind of integrity to really be successfull. I don't think metal artists look at how many albums they sell, because honestly, they don't sell a lot. but what they are looking for is staying true to the music, to themselves and to the fans. In such a small community as metal is, integrity, respect are important to the fans and to the bands themselves. While your sound can evolve, you can feel when it becomes corporate and calculated to sell more ,disregarding the roots of the bands and what they started it for in the first place. A good example of a band falling appart is Metallica. Thet gained a lot of money by going the radio way, but they lost integrety and most importantly respect from the fans who made them in the first place. And they have tried to gain that back in St-Anger but it was already too late. An example of a band staying true to their roots and refusing to sell out is Slayer. these dudes are well over their 40's but they still kick serious ass. no wonder why they have such a big base of fans, new ones and older ones.
In the case of Korn, they have lost respect and integrety and no matter what they do to regain that (because they realize that they don't have the fun they used to) real fans will just see it as a joke and hypocrisy. So that is why trhey should just quit.
Heavier?...Right.
Progressive?...*Snicker*..
I respect the bands limited significant output in the mid-nineties but this jokes gone on long enough.
Theres no going back now....They've released more garbage than music of substance by about 4 to one at this point.
you guys have never heard of mike patton!? only the greatest vocalist ever! and you call yourself slayerdisciple! he teamed up with dave lombardo, along with buzz osbourne from the melvins and formed a band called fantomas. check them out.
also check out his other band mr bungle (though they already broke up *cries*). some of his best work is that band.
never been a faith no more fan but i prefiere them to most bands of there genre, im slayerdisciple not lombardodisciple the only thing i know bout lombardo after he left slayer was that he formed grip inc. recorded the gathering with testament and got back with slayer in 2004, wat do the fantamas sound like before i check them out
man oh man........ describe the fantomas. if only that was possible. they only way i could describe them is schizophrenic metal. they have so far release albums based on science fiction comics, film scores (the film music in case nobody knows), an album that contains a 74 minute song based on surgery without anaethesia and the also an album based on the month of april.
Alot of people only know Patton thru Faith No More....And really most people who know of that band only know the song "Epic" which, ofcourse, is ancient history....I'm 26 and I was 9 when that album was new.
Best Mike Patton work (though many will argue) is the self titled debut and Mit Gas from the band Tomahawk.
Psychotic, sometimes heavy and severely underrated stuff.
Harry Sachz f*** you, you don't know music if it punched you in the face!!! AND I AM NOT f***ING EMO YOU QUEER FOR LIKING KORN IN THE FIRST PLACE!!! YOU NEED TO STOP LISTENING TO NU METAL/RAP BECAUSE THOSE GENRES ARE sh** AND WILL ,ALWAYS BE sh** SO YOU BETTER RECOGNIZE!!!! f***KKKKKKKKKK YOOUUUUUUUUUUUU, YOUUUUUUUU POSSEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! KORN SUCKS!!!! HELL YA THEY f***ING SUCK!!!!! SO YA GET OVER IT!!!
Wo wo wo ! Guys, guys , guys, let's calm down here. He has the right to like Korn and you can not like it. See, most of us used to love Korn but not anymore. Ok I admit that saying that we are EMO because we don't love Korn is stupid, but don't end up playing is little game. Just ignore him and move on. He likes Korn, we don't like it...end of story...and you know you're not EMO...
NOW THAT WE HAVE THAT SETTLED LETS GO TO A CONCERT AND f***ING MOSH IT UP!!!! <3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3 TRUSE TO ALL HATE AND TO ALL MISSERY DESCENDED AMONGST US HAHA LOL IMMA GO BEFORE I MAKE A COMPLETE a$$ OUT OF MYSELF AND GOOOO SLAYERRRRR!!!!! AND BLACK DEATH VIKING EPIC SYMPH AND MELODIC METAL FOR LIFEEE!!!!!
Fantomas, Mr Bungle and Tomohawk - I couldn't tell you which is more awesome. I havn't bothered listening to Peeping Tom yet, though. Can anyone tell me if they're at all worthwhile? Almost everything Patton's done I've liked, but PT seem at first glance to be nu-metalish, and I'm really getting tired of nu-metal.
As for Korn, I'm still a big fan of the debut album. LIP is pretty cool, every once in a while, as is Untouchables. Other than that, they can blow goats. Although, I will be interested in seeing what Bozzio can do for them - his work with Zappa is mostly amazing.
peeping tom sounds like a pop record...... done by mike patton. which means that it is a pop record that is, but not entirely, unlike a pop record. i would say it's like an RnB and hip hop version of faith no more, though thats not quite a good desciption. if you're open minded, i suggest you check it out.
I think KoRn rules. I have been listening to them since they first came out, back when they were nothing. I think they kicked a** then and they still kicka**. so everyone who is talking bad about them are just jealous that they are not in a kicka** metal band.
I actually like all of the Korn albums, that is apart from SYONTOS. I think that is is pure sh** for two reasons.
1) Head left
2) The new record label and producers f***ed it all up
KORN, LIFE IS POEACHY, FOLLOW THE LEADER, ISSUES, UNTOUCHABLES, TAKE A LOOK IN THE MIRROR.
they are all amazing
i really hope the next one is good
pshhhhhhh y do u waste your pathetic time dissin korn if u dont like em dont listen to em and wuts it gunna prove by write bullsh** like this?!?! i mean look at u ur nothing u never got to be famous n make it in this world now did ya??!?!?!
if u got sumthin to say email me thekornfreakisme@hotmail.com
PEACE b****es
you stupid f****s...have no idea what you are all talking about. Are we all forgeting who saved metal in the 90's cause it was going no where. Without korn there would be no slipknot, no SOAD, no mudvayne, no disturbed and many others. I mean even metallica had a time in the 90's where because of Korn realised that they need to throw away thrash metal and get heavier to get with the times, all of korns albums are awesome, except i must say that see you on the otherside was too "moneymade" so to speak, too much effects etc, but overall it wasnt THAT BAD! I dont understand how u people could say that korn lost their touch after life is peachy. If most of you arent fans anymore then why do u keep waiting around on the net to see if the NEW korn album is great. go listen to ur f*****d up no name bands like dimmu borgir or cradle of filth some f***ed up sh** like that. AT LEAST YOU CAN UNDERSTAND WHAT KORN IS SAYING. all of them death metal sh** just got lucky by a bunch of drunk labels. And all this talk of how korn contradicted themselves when signing to a diifferent label. I bet each and every one of you corperate wannabes would do the exact same thing. With all the talk of you idiots on the net asking korn to come up with a different sound, they had to change so they can do so. So when they listen to what you du***a***S say ,your not happy and when they dont ur just complaining. Your all just a bunch of ingrateful loosers who have nothing beeter to do than comment on every band on this site. Why dont u actually go and listen to the albums properly before you start to judge it after a one time listen.
Finally i just want to say that KoRn will be the next biiggest band on earth,whether you emo looser s like it or not.
korn is one of the best f**kin band in metal history, if they were no good, they wudnt hav 7 albums already, people like them, true they evolve with each new album but they ve got no choice, wiz so many loser bands copyin them,,
so motherf**kers who dnt like KoRn can piss off and listen to Kiss or Twisted Sisters..wud be gud for u...
..no one messes wiz the DevMasteR
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hahahaha some band is full of sh**!
they went downhill so f***ing fast...