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Korn's cathartic alternative metal sound positioned the group among the most popular and provocative to emerge during the
post-grunge era. Kornbegan their existence as the Bakersfield, California-based metal band LAPD, which included guitarists
James "Munky" Shaffer and Brian "Head"Welch, bassist Reginald "Fieldy Snuts" Arvizu, and drummer David Silveria. After issuing
an LP, the members of LAPD in 1993 crossed paths withJonathan Davis, a mortuary science student moonlighting as the lead
vocalist for the local group Sexart. They soon asked Davis to join the band,and upon his arrival the qu ...read more
Korn's cathartic alternative metal sound positioned the group among the most popular and provocative to emerge during the
post-grunge era. Kornbegan their existence as the Bakersfield, California-based metal band LAPD, which included guitarists
James "Munky" Shaffer and Brian "Head"Welch, bassist Reginald "Fieldy Snuts" Arvizu, and drummer David Silveria. After issuing
an LP, the members of LAPD in 1993 crossed paths withJonathan Davis, a mortuary science student moonlighting as the lead
vocalist for the local group Sexart. They soon asked Davis to join the band,and upon his arrival the quintet rechristened itself
Korn.
After signing to Epic's Immortal imprint, they issued their debut album in late 1994; thanks to a relentless tour schedule that
included stintsopening for Ozzy Osbourne, Megadeth, Marilyn Manson, and 311, the record slowly but steadily rose the
charts, eventually going gold. Its 1996follow-up, Life Is Peachy, was a more immediate smash, reaching the number three
spot on the pop album charts. The following summer, theyheadlined Lollapalooza, but were forced to drop off the tour when
Shaffer was diagnosed with viral meningitis. While recording their best-selling1998 LP Follow the Leader, Korn made national
headlines when a student in Zeeland, Michigan was suspended for wearing a T-shirt emblazonedwith the group's logo (the
school's principal later declared their music "indecent, vulgar, and obscene," prompting the band to issue a cease-and-desist
order). Their annual Family Values tour also started in 1998, featuring a lineup that consisted of Korn collaborators such as
Limp Bizkit andIce Cube and like-minded artists such as Rammstein. The tour was an enormous success, so much so that it
continued on with Korn overseeingthe lineup for years after.
Issues followed in 1999, and in typical Korn fashion they debuted their new single in an episode of South Park. The band
toured behind the albuminto the next year, but their efforts were cut short by an injury that took out drummer David Silveria.
They hired former Faith No More drummerMike Bordin to help them finish the remaining shows, and took a short rest before
joining a summer tour with Metallica, Kid Rock, Powerman 5000,and System of a Down. (Silveria later returned amid rumors of
leaving the band for a fashion career, but these stemmed from some modeling workhe had done before his injury.) In the
meantime, Fieldy released a gangsta rap album and Davis scored the film Queen of the Damned, but at theend of 2001 the
band reunited as a unit and entered the studio. A few shows with Static-X helped iron the wrinkles out of the new material,
andby the next summer they had Untouchables ready for release. Korn did a run of Ozzfest dates in support, and the album
was another smash hit.The self-produced Take a Look in the Mirror arrived in 2003. Billed by the band as a reconsideration of
their sound, the album was accompanied bya tour of smaller venues called Back to Basics.
In 2005, Welch left the band, evidently due to his newfound Christian faith. But Korn continued on, playing shows that
summer as a quartet andsigning an expansive recording and development deal with Virgin. The following December they
released See You on the Other Side, a numberthree hit that featured a batch of songs co-written with hitmaking production
team the Matrix. Live & Rare, an aptly titled disc of live recordingsand rarities, was released in May 2006 with the live
acoustic recording MTV Unplugged following in March 2007. Later that year, after returning tothe studio, this time without
drummer David Silveria, the band resurfaced with an underwhelming album appropriately named Untitled. The bandfound a
permanent drummer by way of Army of Anyone's Ray Luzier. In 2010, it was announced that the band had signed with
RoadrunnerRecords, and later that year they released their ninth studio album, Korn III: Remember Who You Are. Looking to
expand their sound in newdirections, Korn sought out electronic producers like Skrillex and Noisia, who helped them infuse
their already heavy sound with pounding dubstepon their electronic-tinged tenth album, The Path of Totality. « hide |
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