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Korn... in their words

Up close with Munky

Q:Why don't you tell us a little bit about the attitude with which KORN went into the studio with this time? What were you hoping to achieve?

A:I think for the band it would be to gain the respect of our fellow musicians. I don't know. Of course we wanna sell as many albums or more than the first two. I think that would be one of the band's goals. I think that we've already achieved the success on this record because we're all 100% happy with all the songs. That was the personal goal for me.

Q:What’s really amazing about the music of KORN is that you really created this really intense hybrid sound that has elements of hip-hop, it has elements of Brain Eno experimentation. Why don't you tell us about what goes into the creation of the KORN sound--what happens during the writing process?

A:It's spun from a basic guitar riff, or a bass and drum groove, and we just kind of feed off of that and build off that one thing as a band. It's weird with us. When we write, JONATHAN just kind of hums melodies. It's kind of like the songs are just born.

Q:Do you write with the philosophy that if you can't play something in concert, you don't record it?

A:Well, not necessarily. Because recording is different. You can pull out little tricks. As long as you can come close to it, you can recreate it live. But mainly we want to recreate everything live. We have that in the back of our mind. But if we've come across a cool sound and it's worth putting it on the album, we'll still figure out later how to pull it off live. Head and I have a lot of work to do to recreate some of the cool stuff that we did on this album. We'll be able to do it.

Q:What's your favorite new sound or technique that you used for the first time on this album?

A:The talk box was cool. I learned how to incorporate the talk box into our sound a little bit. It just adds a mood, and it kind of sets the mood for a song without necessarily adding words to accompany it. Just kind of like an underneath sound. I actually wanted to experiment with it for a while, but never really felt it was in KORN's genre of sound. But the way we used it was very subtle and tasteful and conservative.

Q:How do you feel the production was different on this album than it was on the last album?

A:We took our time instead of rushing through it. The last record seemed kind of rushed as opposed to this one. I think that people were afraid that the intensity of the first album would go away too quickly. We kind of already had a buzz and wanted to stay out there and stay in the public's face. So we put a record out prematurely.

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