Korn have been a pretty interesting, if not mildly contentious issue, over the past year or so; their new record divided fans with its' poppy kind of sound (I liked it) and their previous effort, The Path of Totality, was straight dubstep. If lead singer Jonathan Davis gets his way from now on, the band's next effort will be much, much more electronica based.
In an interview with Revolver recently, Davis was quoted as saying (and transcribed by The PRP):
“In late spring, Davis was feeling better, and he was able to provide constructive criticism of the 25 songs his bandmates had demoed. He was excited about what he heard, but he also wanted to continue some of the electronic direction of The Path Of Totality. When he expressed this to Head, it became clear that the two were not on the same page.
“I was like, ‘Wait! I didn’t come back to do an electronic album!’” the guitarist says.
“Head kept saying, ‘I wanna do a metal record! I wanna do a metal record!’” Davis remembers. “I was like, ‘Bro, you’ve been gone eight years. We already made those records.’ With our last album, which was filled with dubstep and EDM beats we thought, man, this is so different and new. Let’s keep going with this.”
And:
“If it was up to me, we’d have way more electronics, but we compromised, and I’m so glad we did,” Davis says. “Pushing and pulling against each other helped us make our best album ever.”
Welch agrees. “The electronic parts are sprinkled in the sings in a really good way,” he says. “I mean, 95 percent of the album sounds like old Korn. It’s just mixed with some newer sounds.”
Get out your pitchfork kids, because guess what? I agree with Davis. The Paradigm Shift was Korn trying to be old Korn and it wasn't that great. If the band continue to mess around with electronica, maybe they'll stumble onto something awesome! Maybe not. You're never going to know ntil they get out there and give it a shot, which is what music is all about… so I say go for it. Give me The Path of Totality, Pt. 2.
