Korn vocalist Jonathan Davis, drummer Ray Luzier and bassist Fieldy spoke with Billboard.com in the below interview, which saw them discuss their upcoming album, “The Serenity Of Suffering“, out October 21st. In addition to talking about various aspects of the album, the band were also asked to review tracks by Britney Spears (Jonathan Davis: “the production’s dope and that computer making her sing is dope as hell too,”) Twentyonepilots and more.
Drummer Ray Luzier also explained just what Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl was doing in the studio during “The Serenity Of Suffering” sessions, with it all coming down to the album’s producer Nick Raskulinecz:
“Well him and Nick [Raskulinecz,] Nick helped build 606 Studios in the valley. Him and Grohl go way back. Everyone knows Nick worked at Sound City forever, so when they salvaged that board and everything and took it to Grohl‘s place, it was a huge thing in the business. I did my first record in ’90 at Sound City and just all those legendary records done there so, they go way back.
So, Dave had really jacked his leg, everybody knows he had the famous throne made for him and everything. And we’re literally talking about arrangements in L.A. and Nick‘s all ‘Ray I want you to try this other drumbeat and try this other thing, and oh by the way Grohl might stop by, but hey Munky…’ And we’re like ‘wait, did you just say Grohl might stop by?’ and he’s like ‘yeah he’s on his way they’re gonna fly and do some makeup dates.’
And sure enough we’re in the middle of a take and the door pops open and he’s standing there with his cane and he just came and was saying how much he’s been watching us on YouTube and checking out the live shows. He’s just a great guy, I really look up to that dude.”
When asked if they thought about getting him on the album, he said:
“He just stopped by as a bro, as a fellow dude and we were just both saying how much we respect each others music and what we’ve done and that guy’s, I mean c’mon. He was in a little band called Nirvana and he went on and started the Foos and its just still gigantic.”
