Korn guitarist Brian “Head” Welch has given Music Radar a list of ten albums that changed his life. Among his choices are AC/DC, Faith No More and Pantera, of which he stated:
“I think the biggest record for Korn that we were listening to around the time that we made our first record was Vulgar Display Of Power by Pantera. That record was so raw, but it was also produced so well. The heavy on that record really sounded heavy.
Then, when Korn made our first album, I liked that it was dry and raw but at the same time I wondered if it didn’t sound as produced as it needed to be because it was so organic. I was worried about that, but then it came out and slowly started doing well.
At that point, I realised that we had created a sound with Ross Robinson that was unique. But still, I had no idea what that record would go on to do.”
He also spoke of Korn‘s own forthcoming new album:
“…Nothing satisfies me more than this new record that we’re doing right now, though. It feels like who we are, but it feels like on this record we’re working on now, it feels like we’ve come back to what Korn started out as. There’s a lot of aggression on this new album. We just had fun, we sat down together in a studio and jammed out for six to eight hours a day. We just wrote together in the studio. It feels like we’re at a really great point in our career. It just feels like Korn.”
You can take in the whole list over at Music Radar. Korn will be out this summer with Rob Zombie and In This Moment on the ‘Return Of The Dreads Tour‘, with a rumored run with Breaking Benjamin to follow.
