-Misc

Here i will put all the Shit about them i will find likr rumors, interviews and more!!!!!!!!!

OK, I think a good place to start this page would be to let you know about some rumors that are not true. I will start with " I heard Jon killed his parents,is that true?". No that is absolutly false!!! Jon's parents are fine and well in California. " I heard Munky and Brian cross dress (like wearing dresses) at shows, is that true?". Hell No!!! Brian usally sports a flannel and baggy pants, and Munky sometimes sports a Coroner jacket and pants, but they never wear dresses! "Does Jon have HIV or Aids? I saw an HIV tatoo on his arm". NO, the HIV tatoo is a "FUCK YOU!!" to all the people who called Jon a faggot in High-School! "Is Jon a homosexual?". NO, Jon has a girfriend and a son! "Does Jon use heroin?". NO, but he is known to drink some mean alcohol. Some of those questions are really out there, but you would be surprised at how many people ask them.

Phil Anselmo of Pantera, who is known to talk shit on bands that are better than Pantera, spoke out against KoRn in public calling KoRn "dyslexic fools" because of the backwards R in Korns logo. So don't expect KoRn and Pantera to be doing any touring together. Someone needs to give Phil a good jab in the eye, so maybe he will stop talking shit on bands that Pantera blow compared to!!

Deftones are considered the "Brother Band" of KoRn. They are good friends and they love touring together! Deftones music is different from KoRn's jive. They are both very unique, one of a kind bands!!! Deftones Music is second only to KoRn. I would strongly recommend Deftones' debut album "Adrenaline"!

When KoRn does a show near you, get your ass there!!!! That is the only time you will get to hear them rap "Loddi Doddy" during "Ball Tounge" and if you are really lucky you will get to hear them rap during "Predictable"! If you are lucky enough to see KoRn and Deftones do a show together you may get to hear them do a song together!!!

Ever wonder what that secret argument thing at the end of the CD came from? Well Korn doesn't know either! One of the guys they knew at Immortal Records had a bunch of weird tapes and they thought that was funny so they decided to put it on the end of the CD.

A lot of people ask me how KoRn got their name. If you have just finished a meal or don't like sick stories don't read this! Jon was at a party in his home town Bakersfeild where he overheard two of his gay friends talking about having sex with each other and eating each others asshole out when one of them blew diarrheah all over the guys face and when he opened his mouth he had a KoRn knernel on his tounge, so Jon went around saying "corn" to all the people who heard the story and making them sick. He spelled it like a little kid would and used it for their name.

"Jon, where do you get your inspirations for writing songs?"-a caller from the Lovelines interview."From experiences and just being alive."-Jon

I treid to get as many KoRn pics as I could for my pages because they can be hard to find outside the Internet and I know how much KoRnheads want to see pics. I put all the pics I couldn't fit anywhere else here... so that is why there are so many on this page.

KoRn is sponsored by

Adidas- hence the Adidas suits Jon wears... and they all sport something of Adidas.

jaegermeister - Well... you might have guessed that KoRn is not a straight-edged band; Jaegermeister is one of the most potent drinks on the market.

Paiste Cymbals

 

 

If anyone asks you what kind of music KoRn is they'd better have a few minutes. KoRn is not your typical runofthemill band. They all have very different and unique syles of playing like no other band! Jon cannot be compared to any other singers in the music world - so you might as well not even try! His favorite band in the world was Duran Duran. David is into Disco, like the BeeGees and shit. Munky and Head are into Mr.Bungle and free, wacky spirited bands like that. Feildy is a big Hip-Hop fan. They all bring their very different styles together to make KoRn. KoRn is in a class all by itself. So if somebody asks you what KoRn sounds like tell them, "Everything" except country!

KoRn is the best band in the world!!! When I say best I mean they are the most real, honest,passionate, unique band I have ever heard. KoRn put on the best live performance in the world! The energy at a KoRn show is like no other!

            Korn comments
Jonathan Davis-vocals/bagpipes: Jon is the most talented, passionate, for real songwriter I have ever heard! He lyrics are in your face and can not be matched by anyone! One of the few songwriters who makes you feel like he did when he wrote the song! His vocals bring you into a hole new reality, Jon's reality!

Brian "Head" Welch-guitar/vocals: One half of KoRn's low end crunch, nothing can prepare you for the amazing, Funky, heavy, crazy, melodies they come up with!! I have yet to hear more unique guitarists than Head and Munky.

James "Munky" Shafer-guitar: The other half of KoRn's low end crunch, Munky and Head flow better together better then any other guitarists in the world!! The sounds they come up with are unmatched! Munky and Head are fucking amazing! In the music world, they have no competition!

Fieldy Snuts-bass: Bring Fieldy's hip-hop/funk/heavy jive into the mix and you have a some very cool sounding shit!!! Fieldy is the most unique/incrdible, bass player in the world!! He never stops his jive, keeps pounding out his crazy tunes through all of the KoRn songs!

David Silvera-Drums: Last but certanly not least!!! David is by far and away the most skilled/unique drummer I have ever heard! He keeps the emotion of KoRn flowing through the whole album!! Everyone who has heard him is amazed by his drumming!! As a drummer myself I can really respect his skill!

          InterviewS

Faces mag

An Arkansas truckstop, mid point of a 24-hour drive from Corpus Christi, Texas, to St. Louis, Missouri. As noisy, hungry travelers trundle in to grab a chicken fried steak and a cup of joe, Korn singer Jonathan Davis is stuck in a pay phone booth handling interviews. Such is the glamour on the road for a new band.

But Davis doesn't seem to mind. And with some fairly constant touring for the last six months behind Korn, he's getting used to this sort of thing. Which is fortunate because Korn is planning keep at it until Christmas. But this is just what the band wanted, the singer notes, and he is pretty happy that the band has gotten the chance to work this hard.

" We wanted to get a record outplaying accross the states, that was are goal. And now that we did it, we're so happy, and we'll see what comes next," Davis notes. "you've got to just go for it, you got to work hard if you want to get anywhere. So we want to keep working. That's how we got ourselves this far.

"We don't care who comes out to hear us, we just want people to hear our music. If you've got the album thats cool, but you've got to see us live to see what were really about. It's really different. That's all I ask people to do: just give us a chance, just once."

People have had many opportunities to give Korn a chance since they released thier searing self-tiltled debut in October. The metal/rap quintet from Huntington Beach, California got right onto the bus and went to work, touring first with House of Pain and Biohazard, then Sick of it All and Orange 9mm, befor hooking up in the spring with Danzing and Marilyn Manson on a bizarre bill that had all the elements of disaster for the band, but ended turning out pretty cool.

" It's really fun," Davis enthuses. "We've gotten a great responce from everybody. We were stoked that we got a tour and we didn't really care who we went out with as long as we were out getting a chance to play. That was all that mattered.

" Danzig's has been really cool to us and the crowds have been way bigger than on the other tours. It's cool, people are showing up early and the we've had some big crowds to play to."

All the touring and the progressively larger audiences that areseeing Korn is starting to pay off in more recognition for the band, better sales of it's record and steadily building buzz. When radio and video oulets started paying attension playing Korn's second single "Blind," that buzz seemed to grow even more.

This scenario is strikingly similar to what happened with another band from Southern California that you may have heard of -Rage Against the Machine.

Davis sees the parallels are far as the work ethic is concerned. Korn has no political ulterior motives, although its jarring, deely personal music is very powerful. These guys-Davis, guitarist Brian Wlech and James " Munkey" Shaffer, bassist Fieldy and drummer David-are in it for the joy of playing music more than anything else.

"Yeah,we're similar in that way," Davis notes of both Rage and Korn's steady climb. " I think it's just the whole vibe and how everything is going for use. I think if you compare us to Rage it's we're are doing exactly what they did, we're just going out and siting on a vibe. But I don't think we sound like them."

Korn's ptent music blends rap, metal, funk and elements of industrial music. With Fieldy and David's elastic rythems and Shaffer and Welch's dense grooves, the Korn sound is as limber and as it is muscular, imposing as it is inviting. Davis tops it all off with his unfliching, soul-baring lyrics and forceful delivery that, on tracks like "Faget," "Daddy," "Clown" or "Lies," offer a vivid portrayal of the anger, fear, pain, betrayal and hypocrisy he has witnessed or experienced.

"It's totally honest, it's totally real," he notes. "All the lyrics about my own life. The only way I can be honest about singing about anything is if I know what it is. And that is what I'm trying to get across, just being totaly honest."

Before Davis joined Korn two years ago ( after working as an autopsy assistant at a coroner's office), the core of the band-Fieldy,David and Shaffer-had been together for about seven years as funk/trash band called LAPD. But when the singer came into the bringing his wrenching sediments with him, the band's music changed with its name.

"When they heard my lyrics, it brought out more darker tones, started blossoming from there, we went with it, and the songs just decided to start growing," Davis said. "We're like a team becuase everyone in the band just takes it apart and makes it into a Korn song."

In a genre that is growindg more crowded everyday, Korn's mix of fat grooves, jarring riffs and tormented poetry which makes it stand well above the hordes of Rage wannabes, something Davis is especially pround of.

"We're so stoked. It's hard for people to understand when you do something like that, if you have a accomplishment that makes you different from other peole it makes you feel good. It's like being in your favorite band,"he says of Korn. "It's different for me I'm in it, but I can't help I'm in my favorite band, I love it."



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INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS-Kerrange

(Don't be too disturebed about Jon cutting up bodeis, he was a mortician(not a serial killer).)

Jonathan davis is a 25 year old misfit who's hobby is hacking up corpses. He joined a monstrous rock band called Korn instead Jason Arnopp travels to malibu to meet the sickest fuck in america

"I havent cut up a body in two years" says Korns singer Jonathan Davis "and I need my fix. I've gotta go back to it."

It's been a trecherous four mile drive up malibu's narrow mountain road to hear such dangrous talk. We have come to indigo ranch studios to meet the sickest fucks to hit the music scene in years. Korn are more disturbing than blood in your toilet bowl, nad heavier than a rhino in concrete clogs. they don't look overly freindly in there photos, and indigo ranch sounds like the ideal place to end up impailed on a meathook, sqealing like a pig. it's hear that Korn made there awsome self titled debut album, and are currently recording their follow up.

The setting is a blazing hot and breathtaking deep blue skies above, palm trees and cacti all around, spectacular rock faces and rolloing valleys on either side, there is also a loveable australian cattle dog called cheeta. On the downside, there a re countless flies and at least one resident tarantula. everyone does a bug check' before climbing into bed. The words 'SATAN IS REAL' have been writeen in the dirt outside the main enterence to the studio this is the work of Jonathan Davis.

Korns singer is sitting in the kitchen munching n a plate full of noodles. A boombox behind him is blasting out off-killer country rock. It's by bible-bashing nashville due The Louvin Brothers, and it's called 'Satan Is Real' naturally.

Once he is finished eating, Davis takes us on a tour of the place. In the console room, producer Ross Robinson - a small cheerful character with the slightest of mad gleams in his eyes - is mixing a new song. Musically it's a brutal, wacked-out killer. Lyrically, it's a torrent of politically incorrect abuse.It's titled "Kunt it's the first single,"grins Davis. "just to piss of the radio people. I'm so tired of them cutting my cuss words out." "Thats how I sing, and this is to make a stand We're throwing a big wrench into the fucker." If this sounds a little naive, then remember that korns first album has now sold more than 800,000 in the US. "We've got this far without radio stations and MTV," says davis. "We really don't give a fuck. Record companies just want to make a quick buck and then go,'next band please'. if we let peaple get their meathooks into us it'd spoil a good thing."

JONATHAN DAVIS is a 25 year old he seems like a personable, sincere, decent man Until he starts talking about how much he enjoys dissecting people. He grew up in the hick town of Bakersfield, 120 miles north of Los Angeles. By his own admission. he was a "sick little boy". "you can't make anything of yourself in bakersfield," he says "it's the armpit of the world and I hate it. the only things to do there are get fucked up on drugs, join gangs, get arrested, fuck and have a kid. theres no music scene at all." 'Korn'made Davis' childhood sound like a nightmare. The albums 'secret track' seems to be a recording of his father yelling pointless abuse at his mother about her car. Where there any good times at all? "Not really," he says. "But I had a good time learning to play instruments at my dad's music store. I was spoilt in that sense. I only had one freind all the way through school, so the music was a substitute." When he was 16. Davis went on a work experience placement at the local mortuary. "I thought it would be cool to see dead bodies and cut them up," he says "all I did back then was watch horror movies, and I wanted to see the real shit." "at first I was queasy; I'll never forget teh sound of the scalpel cutting a body open. but it was so cool trying to work out how these people died."

WHEN HE was 18, Davis'parents kicked him out of the house. He enroled himself at a Mortuary College. When he was qualified, he went to work in a funeral home in the country by day and a coroner's office by night. "I had a sick obsession with embalming and autopsies," he admits. "but I didn't want to fuck the corpses or nothing. I just got off on cutting people open. I could do things that serial killers did and get paid for it. I could hack up bodies." Did you ever work on people you onece knew? "yeah. It was crazy/ I didn't know 'em real well, but i'd seen them around or talked to them." "One day, I had this lady come into the mortuary, freaking out, saying that her daughters husband was going to kill her daughter. I stayed with her and counselled her. I got her daughter on the phone, gave this woman a big hug, and said goodbye. "the next morning, I came in and she was lying there on the slab. She'd gone strait home and killed herself. I was freaked out so bad.""

Incidents like this made Davis "appreciate life so much". singig in the band helped him "to get all this shit out". "I didn't want to keep stuff buried, because I knew I could die at any time," he explains "I saw people who died from reaching under their desk and having their 200lb typewriter fall on their skull. stupid shit like that. "To be in a rock band has always been my fucking dream. I'm young and i'm going to do it now. If I don't I'll end up being 50 years old, cutting people up, and kicking myself in the ass."

WHILE DAVIS was covered in gore, guitarists James 'Munky' Shaffer (so called "because he looks like a fucking monkey") and Brian 'head' Welch (so called "because he's got a big head), bassist fieldy and drummer david where playing the LA circuit in a band named LAPD and later, in Creep. Revisiting in their hometown, Bakersfield, the foursome saw Davis singing with his first band Sex Art. They asked him to become a creep, and davis left his beloved mortuary to join them in in LA's Huntington Beach. "They had a happier groove before I joined" says Davis. "I brought out the darker elements in them. It clicked." Creep subsequently changed their name to KORN. They turned heads accross the US during the 10 month touring stint supporting the varied likes of Biohazard, house of pain, Megadeath, Ozzy Osbourne and Danzig They signed to Epic in 1994 and recorded the monstrous 'Korn' Since then, says davis their gigs have been an exercise in "watching rabbits fucking multiply" We rabbits love korn because they fucking mean it. man. On tracks like 'faget' - which is about being called a 'faggot' at school, rather than being homophobic - Davis made nine inch nails' moan-lord Trent Reznor sound relativley contented. On 'Daddy', he broke down completely at the songs end, sobbing 'I fuching hate you / you fucking ruined my life', and taking an ice-pick to your heart in the process. If we find it uncomfortable to listen to, it's creator finds it impossible.

"I never want to talk about 'daddy'," he says. "it's self explanatory. I didn't realise what was going to happen when we recorded it. we played it live once in a New York club and it fucked me up bad." He sighs deeply. Subject closed. No point in pushing it. "The first album came from my gut, I cleared a lot of shit out of the way things that where bugging me before I was in the band . The new album is about me now and how I'm dealing with life." Might there come a time where you can't sing 'blind' or 'faget' with as much conviction? "no i'm so passionate about these lyrics that i'll sing them convincingly forever I enter that mindset for an hour on stage every night . "A lot of people trip the fuck out when they meet me because," he considers. There's this misconception that i'm a big mean fucker who talks shit. but being hard has nothing to do with how big you are, it's to do with being true and honest. phill anselmo's the perfect hard singer, but it's not for me"

IN TRUTH, not everybody in korn is as accommodating as Davis. When he attempts to play us sme new stuff, David rudely clicks of the tape player. and if there was an Olympic medal for Moaning During Photo sessions Korn would win it. but there's no doubt that we are dealing with someithing unique and special here. which is why peopl like Machine Head's Rob Flynn and sepultura's Max Cavalera have been shouting korns praises ever since their first record came out. "Musicians are the hardest people to satisfy," marvels davis, "so when someone like robb gives you a compliment, it's the best. I guess we get respect because where one of the few bands bringing music back. doing something new." Not according to Fear Factory guitarist Dino Cazares (kev's note- fat cunt ). The exception to the rule, he's accused Korn of 'ripping off' his band. davis is unlikely to kiss and make up at Donington. "I hate that jealous bitch," he snorts. "I heared he just got a seven-string guitar like us and he's wearing adidas suits like me. I don't understand it." Conversely, it's also been suggested that sepultura's 'Roots'owes a certain debt to korn - after all, it was recorded by ross robinson. Davis winces rather than snarls at this suggestion "thats a hard thing to say, because those are my freinds" he says "but I was shocked when they got our producer and recorded it here. it was blatant, but It was also so flattering, sepultura are one of my favourite heaby bands and I feel honoured by it. "Davis even sang on the most twisted tracks on 'roots','lookaway'- he and faith no more's mike patton memorably screaming away in thrilling style. not that you could decipher a word that they were saying "that was my shit" he says"it's about how much I hate eating pussy. they wanted me to do the lyics, so I wrote about the first thing that came into my head. It's a killer because sepulturas music is all 'testosterone man', and 'lookway' is a pussy song." With this the vocalist leans back in his seat and cackles. See Satan is real.