New Korn Album
Ever since Brian "Head" Welch departed KoRn, various rumors have circulated about who will play on the band's next album, who will produce it and what it will be called. Jonathan Davis recently gave an interview to MTV to set the record straight, and the singer explained that the title is not definitely Souvenir Of Sadness, Dallas Austin is not producing the whole album, and there is no replacement for Head. Even the much-talked-about collaboration with Rapper The Game is off the table.
"Dallas worked with us for about two weeks on some songs. I think only one of the songs we've done - which I've already sent over to another guy to work on - is going to make it on the album," Davis said. "On this record, basically, it's [production team] The Matrix (Hilary Duff, Mooney Suzuki) and Atticus Ross (Bad Religion, Pink). We wanted to go and try this out. Just think of the crazy, wackiest thing we could get involved with, and it's just really worked out great, because those guys really brought something different to the table."
Davis also said that he heard The Game was interested in working with them, but they never actually spoke and the idea wouldn't work on the new album anyway. Perhaps it will happen in the future. Furthermore, Souvenir Of Sadness, which is a song on the album, is not necessarily the title. There are lots of ideas in the running.
What Davis did say for sure is that the album's first single should surface in August and the LP should be in stores in October. "It's funky, it's heavy, it's dark, and sometimes industrial-tinged," he said. "Working with so many different people and everything, it's made it out to be a really well-rounded album of a lot of different things. It's definitely KoRn, it's definitely groove-oriented. But it's our most experimental album to date. We're very excited. We're all sitting around, when we listen to it, looking at each other going, 'I can't believe that's us.' I think people are really going to dig it. It's not like the first KoRn album, where it's very aggressive and screaming all over the place. There's that in this album, yes, but I've taken all of the years of six albums, and taken what I've learned from that and molded it into one, and thrown a big twist on it."
He also commented on the departure of Head and said that axeman James "Munky" Shaffer has been recording all of the guitar tracks in the studio. "Head had been having problems for years, and he wasn't really there. For a lot of the records, he was there, but he wasn't there," Davis explained. "When we were writing, he did his thing. But we're not going to replace him. With Head leaving, it would be weird having another guitar player in KoRn. I'd never say it will never happen, but right now, we're going to be a four-piece. I don't know if we'll have somebody onstage or we'll have someone playing guitar maybe offstage. We'll figure that out. We haven't even gotten to that point. We've been a band for 12 years, and to have that guy missing, it would be weird to just jump in and have someone else there. Things may change."
"Dallas worked with us for about two weeks on some songs. I think only one of the songs we've done - which I've already sent over to another guy to work on - is going to make it on the album," Davis said. "On this record, basically, it's [production team] The Matrix (Hilary Duff, Mooney Suzuki) and Atticus Ross (Bad Religion, Pink). We wanted to go and try this out. Just think of the crazy, wackiest thing we could get involved with, and it's just really worked out great, because those guys really brought something different to the table."
Davis also said that he heard The Game was interested in working with them, but they never actually spoke and the idea wouldn't work on the new album anyway. Perhaps it will happen in the future. Furthermore, Souvenir Of Sadness, which is a song on the album, is not necessarily the title. There are lots of ideas in the running.
What Davis did say for sure is that the album's first single should surface in August and the LP should be in stores in October. "It's funky, it's heavy, it's dark, and sometimes industrial-tinged," he said. "Working with so many different people and everything, it's made it out to be a really well-rounded album of a lot of different things. It's definitely KoRn, it's definitely groove-oriented. But it's our most experimental album to date. We're very excited. We're all sitting around, when we listen to it, looking at each other going, 'I can't believe that's us.' I think people are really going to dig it. It's not like the first KoRn album, where it's very aggressive and screaming all over the place. There's that in this album, yes, but I've taken all of the years of six albums, and taken what I've learned from that and molded it into one, and thrown a big twist on it."
He also commented on the departure of Head and said that axeman James "Munky" Shaffer has been recording all of the guitar tracks in the studio. "Head had been having problems for years, and he wasn't really there. For a lot of the records, he was there, but he wasn't there," Davis explained. "When we were writing, he did his thing. But we're not going to replace him. With Head leaving, it would be weird having another guitar player in KoRn. I'd never say it will never happen, but right now, we're going to be a four-piece. I don't know if we'll have somebody onstage or we'll have someone playing guitar maybe offstage. We'll figure that out. We haven't even gotten to that point. We've been a band for 12 years, and to have that guy missing, it would be weird to just jump in and have someone else there. Things may change."