History

Korn originally formed when LAPD (which stood for Love & Peace Dude, as well rumored to become Jest at Population Death), which consisted of tons 5 members apart from either singer Jonathan Davis & guitar player Brian "Head" Welch. It late changed their title to Creep & added guitar player Brian Welch. While Davis joined a band around 1993, it began styling their title when 'KoЯn' (sustaining the backwards letter "R"), releasing their debut album, Korn, through Epic/Immortal Records within October, 1994. Korn is arguably a album virtually all responsible the rise of nu metal and influencing later nu metallic elastic like Limp Bizkit.

A band followed higher their debut album using their 2nd album, Life Is Peachy, in October, 1996. A album was even as successful, reaching There are no.Deuce-ace on The Billboard 200.

August, 1998, saw Korn at their peak when it freed their third album, Follow the Leader. These are usually recognized when their breakthrough album, & a album that at long last ushered nu metal into a mainstream. It featured the total of guest vocaliser like Ice Cube and Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit. the album was a profits, reaching There are no.Single on a U.s. & American stock & index charts and spawning the singles "Freak on a Leash" and "Got The Life". "Freak on a Leash" won the Grammy for Best Short Film Cd. Watch a Leader is the band's virtually all commercially successful album, existence qualified 5x Platinum by the RIAA.

A equivalent season Watch a Leader was freed, KoЯn began their have annual heavy metal tour called a Family Values Tour. That month it headlined a tour along by using Incubus, Orgy, Limp Bizkit, Ice Cube and Rammstein. Within 1999, Limp Bizkit headlined, along by owning Primus, Staind, KoЯn, The Crystal Method, and Filter. the tour took a break within 2000 due to heavily competition.

A band's next album, Issues, was released within November, 1999. A album was successful. It debuted at #1 on The Billboard 200 & was qualified 3x Platinum by the RIAA, following higher a profits of Watch a Leader. It featured the wide range of styles & vocals in comparison last albums. Korn appeared in an episode of South Park, titled Korn's Groovy Pirate Ghost Mystery, in which the first single from their then new album Falling Away From Me was premiered. In the episode, a band helped the boys solve a Scooby-Doo style mystery.

Inside 2001, Stone Temple Pilots, Linkin Park, Staind, Static-X, and Deadsy headlined the Personal Values Tour. This was a previous Personal Values Tour held.

Inside June, 200Two, when 2 & a half years away from the media spotlight, Korn re-emerged by owning their Fifth album, Untouchables. Compared to by having their last albums, Harijan got dissatisfactory sales. A band keep around blamed Internet piracy for a drop around sales however others use blamed the decline in songwriting & production quality. A individual "Here to Stay" earned the Grammy for Best Metal Performance. Harijan has since been qualified Platinum by the RIAA.

Korn's sixth album, Take a Look in the Mirror was released within November, 2003. It was successful & numbers of fans felt the album was a link to to the band's earliest healthy. It got the warmly response & too got improved sales in comparison their last album. A album peaked at There are no. Ix on The Hoarding 200.

As of 2004, the class action own remained successful; that month Korn freed their greatest hits album, Greatest Hits, Volume 1, with two cover versions as singles. A foremost lone occurs as handle of Cameo's 1980s hit, "Word Up". A more occurs as handle of the deuce-ace area of Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall". A band has completed their record treat using Sony Records and has since partnered with EMI and signed to Virgin Records. EMI has paid Korn $25 million upfront inside exchange for the part in the profit of their next 2 LPs, including tours & marketing.

In February 22, 2005, Brian Welch announced that he had "...chosen the Lord Jesus Christ as his savior, and will be dedicating his musical pursuits to that end" [http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1497313/20050222/korn.jhtml?headlines=true], and was formally departure Korn. Initial speculations that this was the hoax or practical joke were proven wrong; he has turned extremely negro spiritual, possibly existence baptized in the Jordan River & speaking openly about his faith and conversiin, especially on his web site [http://www.headtochrist.com/]. Welch has as well stated that his cause for allowing a band has to launder using his girl reciting obscene Korn lyrics. This was a band's foremost line higher vary.

When of August, 2005, the band keep close at hand finished recording a fresh album, highborn See You On The Other Side. Based on data from Jonathan Davis's blog[http://www.buttsexcrips.com]], 23 tracks have already been recorded and 13 tracks mixed. The band worked with pop producers such as Dallas Austin and The Matrix. Davis quoted ''"It's our most experimental album to date." In a recent addition to his blog, Davis confirms the release date: December 6, 2005. Jonathan Davis stated in a Swedish interview conducted September 16, 2005 that See You On The Other Side'' will contain 14 tracks. In addition, there will be a "special edition" of the album with 17 original songs (out of a total of 20 laid down during the recording sessions for the new CD), plus video material. The first single of KoRn's 2005 album is titled "Twisted Transistor". The song premiered on 102.1 The Edge on September 12, 2005. The video will be shot after their European Summer Tour.

The band hired Rob Patterson (ex-Otep) to play guitar for the European dates. "We hired Rob Patterson to play guitar for the European dates but he will not be on stage. We don't want to use samples or tape, 'cause that would suck. We are not ready to have a new guy on stage with us. This is for the first Europe run only. We have some new exciting ideas on how we are gonna play live in the future and I am sure it will blow your mind."

Style and Influences
Davis' distinctive singing — often a series of grunts, whines and bizarre scats (somewhat reminiscent of those used by Mike Patton) — and his lyrics, are inspired in part by his alleged child abuse by an unnamed party. Although the alleged abuser has never been explicitly identified, it is speculated, based upon statements by Davis in various interviews, that it was a family friend or neighbor. Davis has also stated that much of his inspiration is drawn from both his parents' denial of his abuse, and his time spent as an assistant in a morgue. For example, songs such as "Daddy" from 1994's KoRn and "Hey Daddy" from 1999's Issues illustrate his resentment towards his parents. Also, "Dead Bodies Everywhere" from 1998's Follow The Leader discusses both his issues with his parents and some of the atrocities Davis reported seeing during his time in the morgue.

The group's music is a blend of pounding, tribal drums and loud, distorted seven-string guitars (almost extinct before Korn) has gained the band popularity throughout the years. The band is also notable for their collaborations with hip hop artists such as Ice Cube and Nas, as well as for re-introducing the bagpipe into mainstream rock music, little heard since the days of AC/DC's late frontman Bon Scott. The band's simple song structure may be due to the band's pop sensibility. Davis grew up as an avid fan of the new romantic and new wave scene, where the pop song formula is used quite often.

Korn has cited bands such as Mr. Bungle, Faith No More, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Ministry, N.W.A., Duran Duran as key influences. These influences help create a catchy yet loud sound that has yet to be completely cloned.

Members
Jonathan "HIV" Davis - vocals, bagpipes Reginald "Fieldy" Arvizu - bass David Silveria - drums, percussion James "Munky" Shaffer - guitar, backing vocals Previous members
Brian "Head" Welch - guitar, backing vocals (1993-2005)

Discography
Albums
Korn, October 11, 1994 #72 US Life Is Peachy, October 18 1996 #3 US, #32 UK Follow the Leader, August 18 1998 #1 US, #5 UK Issues, October 26 1999 #1 US, #37 UK Untouchables, June 11 2002 #2 US, #4 UK Take a Look in the Mirror, November 25 2003 #9 US, #53 UK See You On the Other Side, due out December 6 2005

Compliation/Live albums
Greatest Hits, Volume 1, October 5, 2004 #4 US, #22 UK

Singles

! width="28" rowspan="2"| Year ! width="220" rowspan="2"| Title ! colspan="4"| Chart Positions ! width="220" rowspan="2"| Album |-

! width="83"| US Hot 100 ! width="83"| US Modern Rock ! width="83"| US Mainstream Rock ! width="83"| UK Singles Chart |- | 1994 | "Blind" ! - ! - ! - ! - | Korn |- | 1995 | "Shoots & Ladders" ! - ! - ! - ! - | Korn |- | 1995 | "Clown" ! - ! - ! - ! - | Korn |- | 1995 | "Need To" ! - ! - ! - ! - | Korn |- | 1995 | "Faget" ! - ! - ! - ! - | Korn |- | 1996 | "No Place to Hide" ! - ! - ! - ! #26 | Life Is Peachy |- | 1996 | "A.D.I.D.A.S." ! - ! - ! - ! #22 | Life Is Peachy |- | 1997 | "Good God" ! - ! - ! - ! #25 | Life Is Peachy |- | 1998 | "All in the Family" ! - ! - ! - ! - | Follow the Leader |- | 1998 | "Got the Life" ! - ! - ! - ! #23 | Follow the Leader |- | 1999 | "Freak on a Leash" ! - ! - ! - ! #24 | Follow the Leader |- | 1999 | "Children of the Korn" ! - ! - ! - ! - | Follow the Leader |- | 1999 | "B.B.K." ! - ! - ! - ! - | Follow the Leader |- | 2000 | "Falling Away from Me" ! #99 ! - ! - ! #24 | Issues |- | 2000 | "Make Me Bad" ! - ! - ! - ! #25 | Issues |- | 2000 | "Somebody Someone" ! - ! - ! - ! - | Issues |- | 2002 | "Here to Stay" ! #72 ! - ! - ! #12 | Untouchables |- | 2002 | "Thoughtless" ! - ! - ! - ! #37 | Untouchables |- | 2002 | "Alone I Break" ! - ! - ! - ! - | Untouchables |- | 2003 | "Did My Time" ! #38 ! - ! - ! #15 | Take a Look in the Mirror |- | 2003 | "Right Now" ! - ! - ! - ! - | Take a Look in the Mirror |- | 2004 | "Y'All Want a Single" ! - ! - ! - ! - | Take a Look in the Mirror |- | 2004 | "Everything I've Known" ! - ! - ! - ! - | Take a Look in the Mirror |- | 2004 | "Word Up!" ! - ! - ! - ! - | Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 |- | 2004 | "Another Brick in the Wall, Pts. 1-3" ! - ! - ! - ! - | Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 |- | 2005 | "Twisted Transistor" ! #97 ! #21 ! #14 ! - | See You on the Other Side |}

Remixes
Korn often like to enlist other musicians to remix their singles and most popular songs. See a list of Korn's Remixes

Soundtrack contributions
I Know What You Did Survive Summer - "Proud" The Crow: City of Angels - "Sean Olsen" End of Days - "The Camel Song" Spawn - "Kick the P.A.", with The Dust Brothers ''Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle - "Blind" Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life - "Did My Time" (Movie only, wasnt released on Soundtrack, but a CD Single promoting Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life) The Queen of the Damned - "Forsaken", "Redeemer", "Slept So Long", "Not Meant For Me", "System" - Music and lyrics written and performed (in the movie) by Jonathan Davis. The songs were performed by various other singers on the soundtrack album. XXX: State of the Union - "Fight The Power" - Originally recorded by rap act, Public Enemy. The song features rapper Xzibit and was produced by rapper Lil Jon. Wonderland - "Love on the Rocks", a Neil Diamond cover Black And White'' - "Year 2000 (Remix)", Originally an Xzibit track with Jon's vocals for the remix