On Jan. To celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Korn , the band started playing the record in its entirety at select dates in and throughout Munky and Head have said that being able to revisit their roots so completely inspired some of the heavier riffs on their new album, The Serenity of Suffering out Oct.
I never even want to hear it! The whole thing really fed my head up and it took me a while to recover from. Grit, Guts and Glory. Jon Wiederhorn Updated: October 11, Korn Albums Ranked. Filed Under: Korn. Lost in the Grandeur 5. Disconnect 6. Hopeless and Beaten 7. Penance to Sorrow 8. My Confession 9.
Worst Is On Its Way. Heavy music is full of legendary bands boasting deep catalogs stacked with iconic songs — sometimes it can be hard to know where to start, or what to consider their best. Twenty years later, Korn have released 11 records, seven of them platinum, and will be playing their landmark first full-length in its entirety on select tour dates. We caught up with all the players to learn about the making of this monumental LP.
Are you ready? We liked the samples on the Cypress Hill stuff. The first record was about mimicking some of the hip-hop stuff that was going on in that day.
Jonathan Davis, vocals: Dude, I never felt I was a metal dude to begin with. I grew up…my favorite band was Duran Duran. I was a child of the Eighties, and I loved more of the gothic and romantic kinda shit.
Ross Robinson, producer: Basically, he was a goth kid with kind of this funky, dry hair, wearing Monkey Boots, and he was wearing Robert Smith makeup. And when he walked into the room, it went dark and goth. Basically, during the first song, to audition in the rehearsal room, he started freaking the hell out [ laughs ].
Davis: After two weeks, we were doing a demo. Fucking crazy-ass Ross. I remember sleeping in a garage with him when he was living in a garage. I had to fucking quit my job where I was making great money as a mortician, had my own house, to fucking having nothing, working at a pizza place as a shift manager living under some stairs. I think Lenny Kravitz recorded there, Nick Cave. Davis: Walking in there and seeing all the crazy, old-school analog gear… I knew what this shit was because my dad had a recording studio.
The shit that was in that studio, my dad dreamed about, and I just saw in pictures. That first Korn album was the first metal album to really use guitar pedals. I really believe that is the first metal album to start the pedal trend, for sure. Fieldy: I had to battle with Ross because I knew the sound I wanted — that real percussion-y, click-y sound.
Then I would go out and have all the answers to know what to do. It was irritating. David Silveria, drums: One guy was telling me four clicks, and another guy was telling me no clicks. Robinson: I actually edited it down to however long that was on the album, but it was a lot longer.
We even do it to this day. Silveria: On the same piece of property [as the studio] was a cabin that was just an upstairs and a downstairs. Davis: It was one big fucking party. Always just out of our minds drunk. By the time it was bedtime, we were just hammered. Staying in the chateau I remember waking up and it was sweltering hot. The sun would just bust through that fucking place. Head took over my vocal booth and he slept in there — he was smart. We would get these foam things, the ones that would deaden the sound.
Davis: We were 24 years old. I was 23, I think. I got sober when I was But the other guys, their tolerance lasted a little longer. And as I learned over the years, they want you to get away from distractions every time we record — but you just find new distractions.
We just made a distraction right there. We would bring all our friends up there. Munky: We had barbecues every other day…I remember just eating healthy in the afternoon, then partying really hard at night. But he was good about getting us into the room to record. Head: I was trying not to [do meth].
So I was trying not to ruin my experience. But I was addicted, so it was off and on. But the studio owner, Richard Kaplan, he was stressed: He threatened to kick us out.
Munky: We would go hiking. It was the suckiest thing I ever did in my life. But yeah, I think it gets him off. I thought all producers were like this until after, when we did all the rest of our records where they started becoming fun. He had his way and was digging in to me and pulling shit out.
I was already writing stuff about it, but to get the performance out, he really just poured salt on the wound. Robinson: It was simply percent belief in everything he was saying and percent loyalty to being in an extremely comfort place for him, where he felt so safe with me that nothing bad would ever happen.
A lot of us have things that come to the surface that we maybe have to deal with later in life — childhood things come up. Jonathan was going through that then, so he was singing about it, and it was like therapy to him. So it was coming out of him anyway.
Ross would try to bring it out of him. He pulled it out of him. I think later on, in other records, he was, like, trying to abuse him [ laughs ] to get that twisted vibe out.
I think I was just letting shit go and he was just going with it.
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