Korn frontman Jonathan Davis sat down with ARTISTdirect.com to discuss his electronic music alter ego, J Devil. The full feature can be read at the above-mentioned link, while an excerpt can be found below:
“Has J Devil always been in the back of your mind? Did you know if you were going to do EDM, you were going to take it to an evil place?
Yeah, it started off as dark. I made Korn dark. I’m inspired dark things, and I wanted to create this alter ego that was different from Korn. EDM is so much different in general. I wanted to basically incorporate all of the kinds of EDM music that I like into this. I have song called “Move” that’s basically dubstep, jungle, and drum ‘n’ bass all in one.
I like mixing genres together. I have some songs that are straight metal. I don’t know what the fuck it is. It’s just different. Everybody I play it for just freaks out because it is so different. It’s all still in the electro vain because I’m an electro freak. I love that 130, 128 BPM. I love the four-on-the-floor pattern, but I change it up.”
