KoRn News
KoRn Chat
Korn will be chatting online on February 17th at 5pm PST at Ticketmaster.Com. When you log on, you'll be automatically entered to win a Tama snare drum signed by the band as well as other cool Korn stuff.
KoRn on Limp Bizkit Album
Limp Bizkit fans should be happy to know that a new Limp Bizkit album is nearly komplete and should be out in May. The new album will feature Eminem, Jonathan Davis from KoRn, and more...
Jonathan & DJ Lethal
DJ Lethal (Limp Bizkit) is planning to release his first solo album later this year. It's gonna feature all types of metal stars and rappers. Jonathan Davis will be featured on vocals in some of the songs as well as Chino Moreno (Deftones), Mark McGarth (Sugar Ray), Tom Morello (R.A.T.M.) and some vocals from Fred Durst.
Freak on a Leash Video
The Freak on a Leash music video premiers in the U.S. on MTV Total Request Live between 3:30pm and 4:30pm on Friday, February 5th. KoRn spent a December afternoon in a Los Angeles soundstage shooting the video for "Freak On A Leash" which is a combination between real footage of the band and animation by Todd McFarlane. The three directors for the klip are Todd McFarlane, Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris. Here's an article from KoRn.com:
The "mini-movie" style video will be a combination of performance footage mixed with Todd McFarlane's animation and conceptual footage shot by Dayton & Faris of the band to create a seamless transition between the real world and the surreal one. The story begins and ends as a living, breathing extension of the Follow The Leader album cover, taking the viewer on a journey from a KORN/McFarlane conceived anti-establishment dreamland to a hard rock reality and back again.>
Jonathan says: "We got Todd McFarlane animating some of it. And Dayton and Ferris, the two who did the Pumpkins videos and a whole bunch of other videos - they're doing it. It's going to be bad-ass, it's going to trip some people out"
KoRn/Rob Zombie
Despite the rumors on why Zombie was not on the Family Values Tour, KoRn and Rob Zombie will be touring together from February 25, 1999 - April 11, 1999. "The wait is over, Zombie says. Zombie and KoRn will definitely be the most hard-core explosive tour of the year." Some tour dates up in the tour section.
New Releases
Korn is working on a Family Values live CD which will be released sometime in 1999. There is also going to be a new home video which will follow along the lines of "Who then Now?" footage. When asked about it Jonathan said "Yeah, it's gonna be kinda like that. But it's a whole tour. We're using the
MTV special footage of the band but all the shit in-between of the band,
that's all gonna be like "Who Then Now?" The video is also set to be released sometime in 1999.
Family Values on MTV
On halloween night of 98, MTV will be playing a Family Values Koncert. It starts at 11pm ET/PT. There will be a rerun of it the following Saturday.
Korn Headline Dates
The new tour with korn in it is the Korn Headline Dates. It features support from Incubus, Orgy, and hed(pe). The tour is set to end November 21st, 1998.
Fieldy Working w/ Cradle of Thorns
As busy as he is with Korn, Fieldy is also working with Cradle of Thorns. Fieldy says "I'm producing it so I'm rehearsing them at the same time, I don't dig that and I didn't bring it on but it just kinda happened and I committed to it so I'm not gonna leave 'em. It's something that I started and gotta finish."
New Album Released: Follow the Leader
The new, most anticipated KoRn album of all was released as scheduled, on August 18th. The Album featured: It's On!, Freak on a Leash, Got The Life, Dead Bodies Everywhere, Children of the Korn, B.B.K. Pretty, All in the Family, Reclaim My Place, Justin, Seed, Cameltosis, My Gift to You. The album sold over 268,000 copies on it's first week of release.
FOLLOW THE LEADER' DEBUTS ON BILLBOARD'S "TOP 200 ALBUMS"
CHART AT #1
KoRn's new album, Follow the Leader was on The Billboards; Top 200 Albums on August 28 - September 24. To visit the billboard, click here
KoRn on Clash Tribute Album
The release date of the Clash tribute album has been pushed back to 1999. KoRn along with Ice Cube and Mack 10 will be on the Clash tribute album doing a remix of Clash's song "Should I Stay Or Should I Go". The song will be remixed by Danny Saber and the album will benefit the High Risk Youth Program at Children Hospital Los Angeles.
New Album - "Follow The Leader"
New Real Audio Songs
Freak On A Leash
All In The Family
All In The Family (Clark World Mix)
All In The Family (Sowing The Beats Mix)
All In The Family (Beats In Peace Mix)
All In The Family (Scary Bird Mix)
KoRn fired their new producer, Steve Thompson, and Toby Wright (who was the engineeer) is now the new producer. Ross Robinson (producer of KoRn's first 2 albums) is back as Jonathan's 'vocal coach'. Brendan O'Brien is mixing the album. It looks like the release date for the new album is August 18, but that could change as it has many times. Todd McFarlane (the mastermind behind "Spawn") will be doing the artwork for KoRn's new album cover. Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit, B-Real of Cypress Hill, Cheech Marin of Cheech & Chong, Ice Cube, Tre Hardson of The Pharcyde, and RBX (Snoop Doggy Dogg's cousin) are contributing vocals on the new album too.
New song titles:
(Some of these may or may not be on the new album)
"All In The Family" - collaboration with Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit.
"All In The Family (Clark World Mix)" - collaboration with Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit.
"All In The Family (Sowing The Beats Mix)" - collaboration with Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit.
"All In The Family (Beats In Peace Mix)" - collaboration with Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit.
"All In The Family (Scary Bird Mix)" - collaboration with Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit.
"My Gift To You" - similar in style (lyrically) to "Daddy" and "Kill You".
"Justin" - named after a terminally ill boy from the Make-A-Wish Foundation whose wish was to hang out with KoRn.
"Neocide" - about a father who raped his 1-year-old daughter back when Jonathan was a coroner.
"Earache My Eye" - a re-do of "Earache My Eye" by Cheech & Chong back in 1981. Cheech Marin will be doing vocals and the members of KoRn have switched rolls for this song too. Jonathan is playing drums, Fieldy has vocals, Munky & Head switched guitar parts and David is playing the bass.
"BBK (Big Black Kock)" - supposed to be a comedy song kinda like "K@#Ø%!" (Kunt).
"Children Of The Korn" - collaboration with Ice Cube.
"Cameltoesis" (working title) - collaboration with Tre Hardson of The Pharcyde.
"It's On" - a song about partying.
"Freak On A Leash" - about Jonathan Davis being paraded around in front of everybody, and also about his hatred of life.
"Watch Me Faggot" - like a disco song but very heavy.
Fieldy married
I don't know any of the details on this but Fieldy just got married around the end of May/beginning of June so congratulations to him and his wife! Also, Jonathan Davis and his girlfriend, Rene, are planning to get married on November 14, 1998 and Head's girlfriend is having a baby too!
KoRn Konsidering Lawsuit
A student was suspended Thursday, March 5, '98 at Zeeland High School in Zeeland, Michigan for wearing a KoRn shirt to school. KoRn is considering to file a multi-million dollar lawsuit against the school district, the school and it's assistant principal. The assistant principal suspended the student for wearing the shirt (which only had the word 'Korn' on it) because she felt it was offensive. If KoRn does go forward with the lawsuit and wins, the proceeds will go to the ACLU and various charities for the prevention of child abuse. Klick here to read the whole story.
KornTV
KornTV debuted on March 5, 1998 and every Thursday they aired another show on the internet. They had 7 shows altogether but they aren't doing them anymore as of right now. You can check out the re-runs on the KornTV site and in my Multimedia section. They might air new shows in the future so stay tuned...
Family Values Tour
The Family Values Tour has been postponed to August or September so it won't compete with OzzFest. So far KoRn, Limp Bizkit and Orgy are the only confirmed bands. Rage Against The Machine and the Deftones decided not to be on the tour. As far as I know, it is planned to start in the U.S.A. and then go to Europe.
New Movie Soundtrack
I got some news that KoRn and the Dust Brothers will be teaming up again on a new MTV movie soundtrack called "Dead Man On Campus". The entire movie and soundtrack is being produced by the Dust Brothers. No dates as to when it will be released but some of the other bands that will be on the soundtrack are Green Day, Marilyn Manson, Blur, and the Chemical Brothers.
KoRn/Dust Brothers
KoRn will be on the Dust Brothers' new album. I don't know what exactly they will be doing though.
New Home Video
KoRn will be releasing another home video sometime in 1998. Don't know what it's gonna be called yet but a good guess would be Who Then Now? 2.
Record Label
KoRn has named their new record label "Elementree" and has signed thier first band, Orgy. They expect to sign 2 music artists to the label each year.
