new KoRn album coming by KoRn!
 

from korn.com

cool. i liked their first two, enjoyed their "comeback" album from 2010 as well.

Can you delete this thread please, we don't want to attract the wrong sort

Did they break up or something? I thought they were a dub step band or something. Eh. I don't know.

the idiot savants are back!

there are some Korn fans here.

Anyway, the point was it's the original lineup.

Is Head going to sing some Calvary Chapel lame Christian band tunes? Has he recanted of his repentance? When they came out with that post-Head album it was just Munky doing a bunch of heavy power chords, but without Head's patented screeching riffs/leads, it sounded empty, boring, predictable. Head was more important to their sound than I think anyone realized.

I may be a 1990s dinosaur, but the best thing koRn could have ever done with their career was go on on top as legends in 2000. They officially milked it, and didn't have the same kind of results as U2 or the Dave Matthews Band did ;)

Fuck them.

too true. altho you have to admit - here to stay is like one of those pieces were the artist has reached the pinnacle of their talent, and thus cant stop tinkering with it (not knowing that it has already started to slowly dissipate). they took so long to record that album and then it was mostly all downhill from there.

if they'd have bowed out in 2000 (and possibly saved head from having to do that xtian thing) - spent a bit on rehab for him, did a few goodbye shows - then yeah - they'd have truly done something special.

exactly. 1990s koRn was actually innovative music with originality. Life is Peachy is still a fantastic record. Even Follow the Leader was ok, sort of, not really but.. Issues and everything since? Sounds like a cliched caricature of their 1990s sound. Really it was very terrible, and somebody should have actually just told them this directly. They should have tried more directly to get into side projects and start new bands like so many other musicians from the 1990s did.

or why not just break up? they made enough cash. they could have milked the cash angle enough to set up a nice life then quit ahead of time, before they got stale.

i like follow the leader. although the last track starts that 'bad poetry goth' thing that jon did all over issues (which might have made a better ep).

eh, don't get me wrong the first four are def my favorite albums (yup, four - I really think Issues is great) but I don't know I've enjoyed the twists and turns in their career. I know a lot of people do'nt really get into it the same way. But I liked See You On The Other Side with it's weird pop/rap production. I liked the chopped n screwed album. I liked the unplugged album. I liked the dubstep album. Shrug. I don't know. Jsut enjoy hearing what they do next.

But bottom line - I do think it'll be interesting to hear the band together with Head again.

I'm looking forward to it.

I do believe we agree sir.

Don't act like you've something to be ashamed of here. You may be the only Korn fan on the board, but that doesn't mean you're dumb, or shallow.. It doesn't even mean you have to explain it. People can't really help what they like, and those who try to are called "Fucking Sophomores in High School."

I can't help the fact that Coldplay sounds good in my ears. I don't give a shit, and I'm not going to justify it for anyone. My Music collection would make the most devoted 1980's American hardcore fan weep envy... and laugh hysterically... And probably beat the shit out of me. And I wouldn't have it any other way.

You rule, NR.

And props to Korn for, if nothing else, putting on a killer show for a young Severian at Lollapalooza when I was young and drunk and pissed.... Oh, and for confessing their adoration of Robert Smith and the Cure. That I did not expect.

haha thanks man.

I don't feel ashamed or like I need to justify really.

But at a time there was a good handful of Korn fans (DrEugene, atsonicpark) to at least be giddy with. I just miss that a little.

Wait, he still is a fan?



No qualms about that.


That's just because Chino from the deftones made it look so cool to come clean about embarrassing shit like that!

i have always liked korn

@suchfriends: yr my boy, so you know I let shit slide. haha

Yeah I"m still a Korn fan no doubt.

--> Deftones. Love the Deftones. Did you hear their last album? Fucking amazing.

Hey. I still unashamedly have Life is Peachy AND self-titled on my iPod and on regular rotation with no apologies, which is why I am all the more bewildered at current fans than past fans like myself. As to deftones, OF COURSE I heard that last record, it was amazing. I in particular love how the deftones have managed to do what koRn couldn't, evolve and progress in their music without exactly losing their sound.


Though Koi No Yokan is much more classically deftones "wall of chords" aggressive. Steph said that chino had pushed the Diamond Eyes to be a bit more experimental, and after Saturday Night Wrist and Diamond Eyes he really just wanted to go back to playing some more classic deftones kind of guitar work (i.e. Stephen Carpenter kind of work, not the more experimental guitar work of the previous 2 records). I think they did manage that while still having a different sound, because I didn't bother to learn to play any songs from Diamond Eyes on my guitar, whereas I have absolutely absorbed Adrenaline, Around The Fur, White Pony, Self Titled, Saturday Night Wrist (I used these tunes to warm up, I can literally play every song from every one of these albums in exact order even..). There are a few tracks like Poltergeist, Romantic Dreams, Entombed, Goon Squad, and Tempest. Wait, I think I learned to play most of this album too!!!

laughed irl. must spread rep to foreverasskiss.

just listen to whatever you like? i get a lot of shit for being loyal to everything that Jay-Z and Kanye put out, because they're supposedly shallow and materialistic.

There is nothing wrong with being or becoming a Christian in and of itself, what was lame was how Head went on 700 Club with a "I've seen the Light and rock music is evil and my band was evil" mia culpa which all seemed a not-so-clever ploy to promote his new Christian (i.e. cds available at the Calvary Chapel gift shop) band's album. You can be a Christian without necessarily dissing your previous friends, family, and career. It is all the more lame now that he is back, because in all actuality his attempt at taking over the Christian metal scene didn't seem to work out ;)

IMO head is almost non criticisable since the meth habit he was dealing with was so severe. you can certainly criticize him for how he acted BEFORE he went christo. the mother of his child ended up dead from meth. you could say he was a naive young man from the stix that couldnt handle the life his band brought him, you could say that he was a hedonist and his meth habit is entirely his own fault. but what you cant say is that his christian conversion and most of everything hes done subsequently is not in fact commendable.

i'm sure korn could have made a slightly better album with him before he died from an od and they might have bowed out a better band but if you prefer that to a family man shaping up and getting his shit together then you're a total cunt.

honestly i think anyone who makes too much fun of the things people who have beaten their drug habits go on to say and do as their brain heals itself is on the level of someone bullying a mentally retarded person.

when he left korn he wrote this:

lyrics:

Barf! Look at my face
I'm all sucked up,
I think I'll sleep all day.
I get the spins when my eyes are shut
I hate feeling this way.

Flush!
All the puke I'm throwing up!
in the toilet this sucks!
not a part of growing up!
only spoils it.

Life is boring,same old story,
get drunk throw up, sleep all day.
I am something, I'm not nothing
I cant let myself decay.

How did I get into my bed?
I dont remember anything
How did I get this bump on my head?
It could have come from anything.

Flush!
All the puke I'm throwing up!
in the toilet this sucks!
not apart of growing up!
only spoils it.

Life is boring, same old story
get drunk throw up sleep all day,
I am something, I'm not nothing,
I cant let myself decay.

Tell me no gossip I dont wanna know.

Jimmy got caught
smelling like beer
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by his mom and his dad
He's grounded for a year.
Lisa got popped she got a DUI
she cussed out the cops
she's lucky she's alive.

Tell me no gossip I dont wanna know.

Pedro got jumped
He's always starting fights
every time he gets drunk
it happens all the time.
Reggie OD'd
from slammin heroin
He's not a dope fiend
he was trying to fit in.

Take me away please oh know, life blows.

Flush!
All the puke I'm throwing up!
in the toilet this sucks!
not a part of growing up!
only spoils it Flush!
All the puke I'm throwing up!
In the toilet this sucks!
not a part of growing up!
only spoils it.

Life is boring same old story
get drunk throw up sleep all day
I am something I'm not nothing
I can't let myself decay.

come on, get up, let's change!
come on, get up, let's change!
come on, get up, let's change!
come on, get up, let's change!

--

its really one of the greatest songs ever written. its like he drank so much his consciousness is confusing itself with the puke in his toilet. its almost written from the perspective of his own vomit. he obviously needed christ to reach the extremities of madness that writing this song implies. he is a true icon of consumerism.

he says "i cant let myself decay". jesus is helping him now. he took so much meth he made contact with the immortal body of christ, and thus the entropy and sickness of his body has all been transmuted into a testament to his faith. now he knows that he will one day live forever and his suffering on earth has been conquered. all because he managed to find god in a fucking toilet bowl. what a guy!

I'd say that's true, but only in part because the deftones were probably more methed out than any band in world history and they all survived it just fine without going insane (though Chino did clearly find God as noticed in many post-White Pony lyrics) aside from Chino and Steph getting all fat and shit.


And I say this both as a visibly active Christian and openly recovering drug addict ;)

becoming a fatty boom boom is a vital part of the recovery process. the brain is made of fat so it must need extra chub to replenish.

if you can skip this part then good for you, but dont knock the flub. can you think of anything more retarded than a person (ok lets face it a woman or a gay man) who gets so upset at their weight gain after quitting drugs that they go back on drugs?

everyone must be extra nice to the post junkie fatty boom batties and fatty bombardiers.

dont make no thing about an extra portion of chicken wings