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Korn (or Ko/n) is a nu metal band from Bakersfield, California, and are credited with creating and popularizing the nu metal genre.
Along with other bands at the time, they have
also inspired many nu metal and alternative
metal bands throughout the mid 1990s and early 2000s.
Since their 1994 self-titled debut album, Korn
has sold over 30 million records worldwide,
including 16.5 million in the United States,
making them one of the best-selling nu metal acts
of the last fifteen years.[citation needed] The band's
catalogue consists of nine consecutive debuts in the top
10 of the Billboard 200, including a compilation album,
Greatest Hits Vol.1, and an acoustic/live album,
MTV Unplugged: Korn. To date, Korn has scored 6
Grammy nominations, winning 2 such awards.
The band released their eighth studio album on July 31,
2007 through EMI/Virgin. The album debuted at #2
on Billboard, selling 123,000 copies in its first week.
Life Is Peachy (1996-1997)
Korn teamed up with Robinson once again for
their second album, Life Is Peachy, released
on October 15, 1996. It features a much grittier,
stripped-down sound than its predecessor,
possibly due to time constraints. There were plenty
of diverse songs on this record: "Porno Creep"
features a wah-drenched pseudo-funk sound, similar
to many 1970s porn movies. They also covered War's
"Low Rider", with Davis' bagpipes and Head on vocals.
"Twist", a concert staple to this day, was only 49
seconds long, featuring Davis' scat vocals.
To help promote their new album, Korn opened
for Metallica, along with utilizing one of the newest
resources available—the Internet. Such strategies
worked: Life Is Peachy sold more than 106,000 copies
in its first week and reached #3 on the Billboard 200.
The first single, "No Place to Hide", spawned a
Grammy nomination for Best Metal Performance
."A.D.I.D.A.S." was the second single and only music
video, seemingly in reference to the popular clothing
line. In actuality, the song title was an acronym for
"All Day I Dream About Sex", as apparent in the lyrics.
Another key factor in raising the band's popularity
was co-headlining the Lollapalooza music festival
in 1997 with Tool. However, Korn were forced to
drop off the bill after Munky was diagnosed with
viral meningitis.[5] Also that year, Korn augmented
their growing crossover appeal by collaborating
with Los Angeles-based production and remix duo
the Dust Brothers on the track "Kick the P.A.".
This track appeared on the motion picture soundtrack
of the film Spawn.
In late 1997, Korn formed their own record label,
Elementree Records. The first band they signed
was Orgy (featuring former members of Davis'
band Sexart), who gave Elementree its first
Platinum-certified album with Candyass.
Over the next few years, they signed acts
like Videodrone, rapper Marz, and Deadsy.
Follow the Leader, mainstream success (1998-1999)
Prior to the release of the band's third album,
Korn produced a weekly online TV show,
KornTV, which documented the making of the
record and featured special guests such as
porn star Ron Jeremy, Limp Bizkit, and 311.
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 released
their third album, Follow the Leader, on August
18, 1998, which featured a number of guest vocalists
such as Ice Cube, Tre Hardson from the Pharcyde,
Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit and actor Cheech Marin
on the hidden track "Earache My Eye"
(written by Marin himself).
Korn launched a political campaign-style tour
to promote the release of Follow the Leader.
The tour took the group, on a chartered jet, all
over North America to spread the news 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 success, debuting at #1 on
Billboard with 268,000 copies sold,[8] and
spawning the singles "Got the Life" and
"Freak on a Leash". They both exposed Korn
to a wider, mainstream audience, with the music
videos being mainstays on MTV's
Total Request Live. "Got the Life" was the
show's very first "retired" video, with
"Freak on a Leash" reaching that same
success months later.These songs also
fared well on Billboard, with "Freak on a
Leash" peaking in the top 10 of both
Mainstream Rock and Modern Rock,
the latter of which it spent 27 weeks
on—more than any other Korn single to date.
Greg Capullo, long-time Spawn penciler,
drew the cover art for Follow the Leader.
The animated bullet segments in the
video for "Freak on a Leash" were directed
by Todd McFarlane (creator of the Spawn
comic book and a former artist for Spider-Man comics).
The live action in the video, directed by
Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, used
innovative techniques which allowed the
camera to follow a bullet in flight through
various scenes.
"Freak on a Leash" won a Grammy for Best Music Video,
Short Form, and received a nomination for Best Hard Rock
Performance. The video also earned nine MTV Video Music
Awards nominations for Video of the Year, Best Rock Video,
Breakthrough Video, Best Direction, Best Special Effects,
Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Editing,
and Viewer's Choice. It eventually won two, for Best Rock Video
and Best Editing. 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.
The same year Follow the Leader was released,
Korn started their own annual tour called the Family Values Tour.
Korn headlined the highly-successful tour along with Incubus,
Orgy, Limp Bizkit, Ice Cube, and Rammstein. A live CD
and DVD were released and earned Gold and Platinum
certifications, respectively. In 1999, Limp Bizkit headlined,
along with Primus, Staind, The Crystal Method,
Method Man & Redman, and Filter. Korn were
not featured on the bill and instead only made surprise
appearances at a few of the stops to perform their
first single off of their next album. The tour took a
break in 2000.
Issues (1999-2001)
The band's fourth album, Issues, produced by Brendan O'Brien
, was released on November 16, 1999, featuring cover art
designed by Alfredo Carlos, who won a contest held for the
fans by MTV. Issues was released during a week of many
highly-anticipated records. It debuted at #1 on the Billboard
200 with more than 573,000 copies sold,keeping Dr. Dre's
long-awaited album 2001 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 performance
made Korn the first rock band, and only the second
predominantly white musical group, to ever perform at The Apollo,
after the legendary Buddy Holly in the late 1950s.
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.
Earlier that year, Korn had appeared on an
episode of South Park, titled Korn's Groovy Pirate Ghost Mystery,
in which the first single from Issues,
"Falling Away from Me", was premiered.
Korn released two more singles off of Issues,
"Make Me Bad" and "Somebody Someone",
both of which fared well on Billboard. Videos
were shot for all three singles, with longtime friend Fred Durst
directing "Falling Away from Me", and Martin Weisz
directing a concept video for "Make Me Bad",
as well as a performance video for "Somebody Someone",
which featured CGI effects. Every video was a staple
on Total Request Live, two of which made it to retirement.
Issues is considered by some critics to be less
hip hop-influenced and closer to alternative metal than nu metal.
It was certified 3x Platinum,
following up the success of Follow the Leader.
In 2000, Jonathan Davis commissioned Swiss surreal artist
H. R. Giger to create a special microphone stand.
The idea was suggested to him by one of his friends
who knew that Davis was a fan of his artwork.
He started doing some sketches of plantlike snakes
and vertebrae mixed with technical elements.
Davis called him from his dressing room and
told him that he had complete freedom to design
the microphone stand as he wanted and his only
concern was that it had be totally functional and as
movable as possible, as well as bio-mechanical and erotic.
The band visited his museum and met him in July of 2000
while they were touring in Europe.
The bio-mechanical microphone stand was finished in 2001.
It was introduced to fans one year later during
Korn's Untouchables tour.
Untouchables (2002-2003)
On June 11, 2002, 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 #2 on the Billboard 200
with 434,000 in sales. Sales were disappointing in comparison
to the first four albums, as Untouchables only reached Platinum status.
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.S.
movie theatres. Untouchables featured electronic beats,
strings and various 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 two videos from Untouchables were directed
by the Hughes Brothers (best known for their films, Menace
II Society and From Hell). 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. The song itself earned Korn a Grammy for Best Metal Performance,and would become their highest-peaking single
on Billboard's Modern Rock chart.The second video,
"Thoughtless", was a nod back to Davis' childhood as the
character in the video is picked on and constantly beaten.
The character ultimately gains revenge in a rather grotesque
but deserving way. Although "Thoughtless" would be one
of the more popular tracks on the album, it did not appear
on Greatest Hits Vol.1. The third video for Untouchables,
"Alone I Break," was directed by Sean Dack, who won the
honor of directing the video through an MTV contest.
The video kept with the darkness of Korn, showing Davis
killing off the members of the band after a supposed mistake
made by Munky while they were performing.
The band admitted it would have been more fun to
do the video had the director been an actual Korn fan.
Prior to their next album, Korn released the single
"Did My Time" on July 22, 2003, which was used to
promote the film Tomb Raider: Cradle of Life.
Angelina Jolie appeared in the Dave Meyers-directed video.
Due to scheduling conflicts, however, the band and Jolie
recorded their parts separately. "Did My Time"
also gave Korn yet another Grammy nomination in
the Best Metal Performance category.
Take a Look in the Mirror, Greatest Hits, Head's departure (2003-2005)
Korn's sixth album, Take a Look in the Mirror,
was released on November 21, 2003,four days
earlier than originally planned.
Korn produced the album themselves, and released
"Right Now", "Y'All Want a Single", and "Everything I've Known"
as singles. "Right Now" and "Everything I've Known"
were animated videos, whereas "Y'All Want a Single"
featured Korn and a large group of fans destroying a record store.
The album peaked at #9 on Billboard, selling over 179,000
copies in its first full week.
Korn released their greatest hits album, Greatest Hits Vol.1,
on October 5, 2004. The album debuted at #4 on Billboard,
selling more than 129,000 copies. It featured two cover songs
as singles, and a compilation of the band's hits from the past
10 years. The first single was a cover of the song "Word Up!",
which was originally made popular by the group Cameo.
The second single was a medley of all three parts of Pink Floyd's
"Another Brick in the Wall", and a remix of their hit single
"Freak on a Leash" was included as a bonus track.
Special editions of the album included a DVD
titled Korn: Live at CBGB featuring seven select
songs from their November 24, 2003 show at CBGB.
Prior to Korn starting work on their next album,
Brian "Head" Welch announced that he had "...
chosen the Lord Jesus Christ as his savior, and will be
dedicating his musical pursuits to that end",
and was formally leaving Korn. Initial speculations
that this was a hoax or practical joke were proven wrong;
he has turned highly spiritual, even being baptized in
the Jordan River and speaking openly about his faith
and conversion, especially on his website Head to Christ.
This was the band's first line-up change in their history.
Several weeks following his departure, Welch had
mentioned a solo album was in the works, although there
was no release date given, nor had he signed on with a record label.
He has since signed with Fortitude Music. However,
his album has failed to meet two release dates, including
as recently as July 7, 2007. It was revealed in a July 6
interview that the album is still in the mixing process.
See You on the Other Side, EMI/Virgin (2005-2006)
Upon completing their record deal with Sony, Korn partnered
with EMI and signed to Virgin Records. As part of this innovative arrangement, EMI paid Korn $25 million upfront in exchange
for a share in the profits of their next two studio albums,
including tours and merchandising. EMI also received a
30 percent stake in the band's licensing, ticket sales and
other revenue sources.
The band's first album for Virgin, See You on the Other Side,
was released on December 6, 2005, and debuted on #3
on the Billboard 200, scanning close to 221,000 copies.
The album managed to stay in the top 100 of the Billboard
200 for 34 consecutive weeks. The first single off of the album
"Twisted Transistor", was accompanied by a comedic video
directed by Dave Meyers in which rap stars Xzibit, Lil' Jon, Snoop Dogg, and David Banner portray Korn.
The single itself peaked at #3 on Billboard's Mainstream
Rock chart and #9 on Modern Rock. The second single,
"Coming Undone", peaked at #4 on Mainstream Rock and
#14 on Modern Rock, and a video directed by Little X also
received considerable airplay. See You on the Other Side
is certified Platinum, and has sold over two million copies worldwide.
Korn held a press conference at the Hollywood Forever
Cemetery on January 13, 2006, announcing the
See You on the Other Side tour. 10 Years and
Mudvayne were selected to open all dates of the trek,
which kicked off in their hometown of Bakersfield,
on what Mayor Harvey Hall officially declared as
"Korn Day", February 26, 2006.
The resurrection of their Family Values Tour was
announced on April 18, 2006, which featured
co-headliners Deftones, Stone Sour, Flyleaf,
and Dir en grey on the main stage. Korn and
Evanescence co-headlined the 2007 edition,
with Atreyu, 2006 alumni Flyleaf, Hellyeah, and
Trivium rounding out the main stage.
While promoting See You on the Other Side in Europe,
Jonathan Davis was diagnosed with idiopathic
thrombocytopenic purpura, a blood platelet disorder
that hospitalized him for the weekend and prevented
him from performing at the renowned Download Festival.
The band still performed, with guest singers including
Corey Taylor of Slipknot/Stone Sour fame, Skindred's
Benji Webbe, and Avenged Sevenfold's M. Shadows.
This led to Korn canceling the rest of their European
bill for 2006,including the Hellfest Summer Open Air.
It was originally unknown to the public what his ailment was,
but the singer revealed in a letter to fans that he was
"dangerously low on blood platelets and at a high risk
of death from a hemorrhage if the problem was not treated".
His illness did not affect the 2006 Family Values Tour.
MTV Unplugged, Untitled album (2007-)
Korn performed at the MTV studios in
Times Square on December 9, 2006, for the MTV
Unplugged series, which was broadcast on
February 23, 2007, through MTV.com and on March 2,
2007, across North American, South American, European
and Asian MTV stations. In front of a crowd of approximately
50 people, Korn played a 14-song acoustic set complete with
guest appearances by The Cure and Amy Lee of Evanescence.
The performance was eventually cut down to 11 songs
for the album, two of which did not air on MTV.
Sales of nearly 51,000 brought MTV Unplugged:
Korn to #9 in its first week out.
The disc has yet to receive a Gold or Platinum certification.
Korn's untitled eighth album was released on July 31, 2007,
debuting at #2 with 123,000 copies in its first week.
The album concludes Korn's unique deal with Virgin Records,
and features touring keyboardist Zac Baird,
giving the tracks a deeper, atmospheric sound.
Drumming duties were left up to Terry Bozzio,
Jonathan Davis, and Bad Religion's Brooks Wackerman,
as David Silveria went on a hiatus for the untitled album
and its touring cycle.The first single, "Evolution",
premiered on Los Angeles-based radio station KROQ,
with help from Munky and Fieldy. It eventually charted
on Billboard's Mainstream Rock and Modern Rock charts
at #4 and #20, respectively, and a Dave Meyers-directed
video was also released. "Hold On", the album's
second single, is slated for release on October 8,
according to FMQB's Modern Rock Available for Airplay
page. "Hold On" has already been played on various radio
stations, charting at #39 on the Billboard Mainstream
Rock chart a week before its official release date.
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