KORN

[Thorngrub]

[Thorngrub]

*man that is going to be some week*

[theladyofthelake]

thorny said:

HaHA! The Teddy bear is missing its HEAD. . . . .that's awesome. .

Haha, I totally missed that shit. Those guys....

[Thorngrub]

And the LOOK on the kid's face - - after having his Teddy's Head Taken Away - - *priceless*

[Thorngrub]

Lady:

There has been a slight surge of posting-activity on the Neil Sedaka clique mirror-board to this original Korn board.

The name of that board is "Pissin's KORN STOWAWAY board ", and, as you know, it was initially set up in order to allow Pissin to read this board, and post on that one, in order for me to transfer his comments about Korn over here, where he could continue to interact with YOU, m'Lady (as well as the rest of us lonely fukkers who miss his presence here very much).

Little by little, I have suspected that Pissin's KORN STOWAWAY board might eventually, gradually, phase itself INTO the korn board over there (as I never set up a Korn board there before this FIASCO of Pissin's cruel & unusual unfair banishment.*


*Even JACkory has expressed missing Pissin, and has called for his return

In any case m'Lady, I am posting this to let you know:

~I am going to copy & paste the important posts I made over there, for your benefit & perusal. I value your input into this kommunity very much, even as I understand your interface here is limited, at best.

~IF you prefer, I would be glad to send you the link for you to SIGN UP at the Neil Sedaka clique, wherein you will be able to keep up with and follow Pissin's KORN STOWAWAY board (& we can let this one collect dust, dry up, & blow away on the winds of time like an abandoned tumbleweed).

~For NOW, I will transfer the last few (somewhat interesting) posts that have been made over there, simply for your entertainment value/and/or to help you pass the time (should your workplace become slow enough to require that).

Thank you Lady for all you have done, and for still checking in here every once in a while.

[Thorngrub]

All the activity happened after I posted the new album cover as shown on amazon.com:

(some have professed to not like it at all; however, it is indisputable that the cover has generated a lot of feedback, which says something in itself as far as I can tell)

[Thorngrub]

Following is a crude, text-only transcription of only the applicable (i.e, the ones I'd think you'd like to read) postings following the glorious display of their new kover)

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pissin: whoa


ProudIllness: That picture is the story of my life.


thoRny: fReakish
funnY
disTurbing...

...just another day w/koRn

Proud: Hopefully, the music will be of similar quality. ... But I think they put too much on their plate.

*wonders how horse and rabbit taste*

shin: That's an awful album cover.



Layla: It makes me think of Alice in Wonderland. And wasn't Lewis Carroll some sort of paedophile/religious zealot?

Is Jonathan Davis still wearing the spangly purple ADIDAS/dreadlocks combo? Bahaha


Pissin: I like that cover. It's fucking evil dammit.


Layla: Whats with the malnourished albino kid? I feel like jamming some multi-vitamins down his throat.

My issue is not so much with the cover (tho...KoRn have done better than this) but with the stupid album title. Its worse than all the Incubus album titles put together. True story.


Layla: "I wish Head would come back" *sniffle*


Pissin: You're just jealous because Korn has found a doorway to the other side, where they will eat free Lunchables every day at noon, and have free slurpees anytime they want, and you're not invited!



Pissin: You have to stay behind and help feed that malnourished fellow.


Layla: Can that kid get some slurpees? He needs some sugar, check out that deathly pallor.

hey, you know what? It looks a little like HMF's child. Bahaha. Thats harsh. Her poor kid. Its not his fault...but still. LOL.


Adam:

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Pissin: that kid is actually made of slurpee


Layla: So KoRn is going to drink the kid?..



Pissin: That's the goal. Once they do that they are free to roam both this world, and the other side, AND be invisible if they choose. That's if they can get to him. He's protected by those evil rabbits.



Layla: And how does the horse fit into all this?



Adam: Maybe the kid is made of cocaine so the band can sneak it past customs and the Mexican border (those fucking dogs can smell anything) and like in the film Traffic, you put the kid in water and he dissolves and then......I......

*pause*

Well, hell, you tell me!


Pissin: well the horse is just a horse, of course, of course


Layla: I don't even know whats going on here anymore.



Layla: neither does this guy


Proud: we faiiilll to seeee how DESTRUCTIVE we can beeehhhh taking without GIIIIVING back 'til the damage can be seen

can you seeeeee can you seeeeeeeee

the more you sell the more you're paid but every song is written the same the more you whine the more you're staged the price you pay to be in Staind

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thorn:

pissin said:

I like that cover. It's fucking evil dammit.

Indeed. evil & clever. I love how the kid lost his teddy bear's HEAD. The look on his face is PRICELESS. Very Alice in Wonderlandesque. thoRny gives it the ol' thumb's up.

all other opinions can be relegated to the "don't know WTF yer talkin about" category. Besides . . . y'all aren't qualified to opine about the world's #1 most kickass band.


thorn: cept for Pissin obviously, he a real fukker



thorn:

layla said:

Whats with the malnourished albino kid? I feel like jamming some multi-vitamins down his throat.

My issue is not so much with the cover (tho...KoRn have done better than this) but with the stupid album title. Its worse than all the Incubus album titles put together. True story.

I did prefer the original working title, Souvenir Of Sadness, and I liked how they used the plain word "sadness" rather than trying to flower it up with "sorrow", for instance. Sadness worked.

When I first heard this new title, I wasn't too sure about it. However: I can say now that the real reason I am totally down with it, is because it bespeaks of such a plain honesty in the deliverance of its meaning.

So straightforward. So correct. "See You On The Other Side" is such a heartbreaking title in the context of how they lost their brother in arms, that I can only nod my head in approval and feel the twinge in my heart for their loss.

Of course, I understand Korn better than anyone on the god damned planet, so for me to perfectly get where they're coming from with the new title should come as no surprise.

When I say "thoRny approves" of the title SEE YOU ON THE OTHER SIDE, I can assure you all that I devoutly mean it.

FAVORITE. BAND. EVER. ;D


thorn:

layla said:

neither does this guy

ya mess w/my peep, ya mess wit da THORN


thorn:

proudofsomething said:

we faiiilll to seeee how DESTRUCTIVE we can beeehhhh taking without GIIIIVING back 'til the damage can be seen

can you seeeeee can you seeeeeeeee

the more you sell the more you're paid but every song is written the same the more you whine the more you're staged the price you pay to be in Staind

Now this is funny. Bash away @staind . . . but be warned, any dissin on tha KORN & you get the THORN in yer SPINEZ


thorn: Jonathan is like, the best friend I never had.
Seriously . . . . we are fukkin clones. We think identically. Only I am WAY smarter. ;P

[Nepenthe]

Awe, Layla still making cracks about me? What a compliment.

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thorn: But he wears his heart on his sleeve. Always has, since day 1.
The man tells it like it is. Totally down to earth. Totally open-minded. Completely honest,
to a fault. All qualities I happen to share. Only I got waaaay more "life experience" than he does. He needs me as his best friend. The things in my head . . . if he could only see. Shit I should learn to play guitar like head and fukkin REPLACE him. But I really do appreciate very much how Jon said "you don't replace your brother" when asked if they were going to replace Head. They have said that, in the future, anything is possible. Someday they might actually replace him - - and also (assuming Head ever gets to go through GOD REHAB), there is the distinct possibility that the future has an actual REUNION WITH HEAD in store for us. That is something all 5 of us (me + the current members of Korn) are all keeping our fingers crossed for. I don't think its likely - GOD being such an overwhelmingly more powerful drug than Crystal meth and all - but it IS a distinct possibility that we are all holding out for.

We're just not COUNTING on it.

[Thorngrub]

nymphofantasia said:

Awe, Layla still making cracks about me? What a compliment.

haha, now I gone & done it

































































;D

[theladyofthelake]

Thanks for posting that, Thorny. Sure, I'd like to have the link to sign up, if I'd be welcome there.

You're right I don't have much time to post, although I do skim the boards a lot. Busy, busy. Just now I have a poem due before noon today. It can be about anything and I have ABSOLUTELY no idea what to write about. I am not a poet.

[theladyofthelake]

HOLLYWOOD — Korn fans apparently should not be worried that more than half of the band's new album was produced by the Matrix, the team best known for its work with Avril Lavigne and Hilary Duff.

"The first day I came in I heard this song, and it was so banging I couldn't believe it," bassist Fieldy enthused. " 'Cause you think, 'The Matrix, they've done pop stuff,' but it was like the heaviest song I ever heard in my life. I was like, 'Man, you guys can't do this! This isn't even in your ballgame.' But I was just blown away."

With an altered lineup (see "Korn On Head: Davis Hasn't Spoken To Him, Munky Still Sees Him As Inspiration") and a new record label, Korn wanted a new start for their seventh studio album, See You on the Other Side, which is due December 6. So the band went left-field and tested the waters with producers from outside the metal world, from Glen Ballard to Dallas Austin.

Korn decided on the Matrix as well as Atticus Ross (who has worked with Nine Inch Nails and Pink) because they got along with them, and because they understood where Korn wanted to go with the album.

"We still wanted to be Korn," singer Jonathan Davis explained. "We just wanted to look at it a different way and have some outside people come in — people who are musicians and could help us do things we know we wouldn't usually do or hear things that we wouldn't usually hear and make an album that would trip people out."

The Matrix, who normally write for or with the artists they produce, worked more as arrangers with Korn.

"They were having a ball working with us 'cause we knew what we were doing," Davis said. "It was more me and Munky and Fieldy and David [Silveria] going in a room and jamming out parts and stuff, and Scott [Spock of the Matrix] would take 'em home and come back with them arranged. He brought stuff out of us that we'd never have thought of. And Lauren [Christy of the Matrix] and me would work on vocals and lyrics, and it was a true collaboration. It wasn't like, 'Here, here's your song. Play it.' None of that."

Among the collaborations that came out of the Matrix sessions is the first single, "Twisted Transistor" (see "Lil Jon, Snoop, Xzibit, David Banner Star In New Korn Video"), which Fieldy said fans have heard on the radio and not recognized as Korn. "It's very different from what we're used to doing," Davis said of the hooky, sludgy tune. "When we started this album we totally wanted to reinvent ourselves and do something different, and I think we did with this first single. But not all the songs are like that — there's a lot of different things going on."

Parts of See You on the Other Side go in a dark, industrial direction, while other tracks explore more straightforward rock.

"We wanted to make a concept album, and I think this is the closest thing that we have done to that," guitarist Munky said. "It's a bit more progressive and a lot more emotional. It's not so much anger, anger, anger, like on previous Korn albums. It's got sadness and anger and darkness, and lyrically it's kind of a perverted album."

Korn, who just returned from two months of touring in Europe, plan to play promotional shows through March, when they'll launch a massive North American outing.

"There's a new kind of revived energy within the whole camp and I think everyone's really excited about the new direction we're in," said Silveria, who noted that he's doing more difficult drumming than ever before.

"I feel like this is Korn's first album," Fieldy added. "People are gonna hate it or love it, I guess. I think most people are gonna love it, but the haters, they can just continue to rock out to the first Korn record. Whatever."