Korn frontman Jonathan Davis likened the band’s forthcoming new album, “The Serenity Of Suffering“, (out October 21st) to the band’s 2002 release, “Untouchables“. Speaking with Billboard.com, he said of it:
“I always thought this was the album that’s in the same vein as ‘Untouchables‘, ’cause that’s my favorite Korn record in totality. Sonically it’s massive; the production on it is over the top; I love my vocal sounds, everything in the music is amazing. It’s still old-school Korn with the heaviness and the grooves, but there’s something new and fresh about it that I like.
I can’t stop listening to it. In the beginning I didn’t really know what I thought. There’s still electronic stuff in it, ’cause I love the electronic stuff. I’m really proud of the record. That’s what differentiates it from the last one; there’s a lot of cool, subtle stuff in there. So it’s not overbearingly electronic, but it’s still heavy ’cause we wanted to make a heavy record. Everybody in the band wanted to make a heavy record. I think we pulled it off.”
Davis also weighed in on more bands teaming up for package tours these days and how changes in the music industry have kept the next wave of bands from ascending to headliner status:
“It’s way changed. All the fucking real rock bands and real rock stars, we’re all parents now, and there’s no new guard that’s come up because of how things have changed. There aren’t those bands anymore with the way the record industry and everything has gone. So we’re it. We’re waiting for that. I don’t know if, with the way things are, that’s ever gonna happen ‘cause with no money back there, the labels aren’t able to do the cool shit they used to do back then.”
You can also now go behind the scenes of Korn‘s recently debuted “Rotting In Vain” music video, which stars actor Tommy Flangan (‘Sons Of Anarchy‘, ‘Gladiator‘). Rollingstone.com shared the following footage from the set:
