Korn (sometimes typeset as Koßn to fit the logo) is a multi-platinum nu-metal band from Bakersfield, California. They are often credited with creating the nu metal genre and inspiring a wave of nu metal, alternative metal, and rap metal bands in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Since their 1994 debut album hit store shelves, Korn have sold over 25 million records worldwide, including 16 million in the U.S, making them one of the best-selling metal acts of the last twelve years.
The band followed up their debut album with their second album, Life Is Peachy, in October, 1996. The album was more successful than their first, debuting at No.3 on The Billboard 200.
It spawned a Grammy nomination for Best Metal Performance in the song \\\"No Place to Hide.\\\" The album\\\'s release featured the first live internet broadcast by the band, and thus Korn became the first music artist to appear live on the internet to promote their new LP.
In late 1997 the band formed their own label, Elementree Records. The first band they signed was Orgy (featuring former members of Davis\\\' old band Sexart), who became successful with their debut album \\\"Candyass,\\\" which was certified platinum. Over the next few years they signed such acts as Videodrone, rapper Marz, and Deadsy.
In 1999 Korn performed at Woodstock \\\'99 on 23th July in front of 250,000 fans. The band cites its performance as one of its most memorable moments.
The same year Follow the Leader was released, Korn started their own annual heavy metal tour called the Family Values Tour. That year they headlined the tour along with Incubus, Orgy, Limp Bizkit, Ice Cube and Rammstein. It was highly successful tour, there was a live CD and DVD from Family Values Tour\\\'98 which earned gold and platinum status, respectively. In 1999, Limp Bizkit headlined, along with Primus, Staind, Korn, The Crystal Method, and Filter. Korn were not featured on the bill and instead only made surprise appearances at a few of the tour\\\'s stops to perform their first single off of their next album, \\\"Falling Away From Me.\\\" The tour took a break in 2000 due to heavy competition.
In June 2002, after two and a half years of hard work and a long creative process, Korn re-emerged into the media spotlight with their 5th album, Untouchables. The release of of this album was preceded by the show at Hammerstein Ballroom in New York on 10th June 2002, one day prior to the album\\\'s release, broadcasted digitally through the theaters in U.S. As befits the trend-setting rock pioneers, Korn recorded Untouchables in a way that no rock artist has done before. By utilizing the new Euphonix R1 Digital Hard Disk Recorder with a 96k, 24-bit sampling rate - which is twice the highest rate that’s normally used for recording
The album\\\'s first single \\\"Here to Stay\\\" earned a Grammy for Best Metal Performance. Untouchables has since been certified Platinum by the RIAA. The first 2 videos from Untouchables were directed by the Hughes Brothers (best known for their films, Menace II Society and From Hell). The first video, \\\"Here To Stay,\\\" has the band playing inside a TV on a static background along with controversial news stories and world issues being presented. The video was nominated to Mtv Video Music Award for Best Rock Video and won MuchMusic Video Award for Best International Video (Group).
Korn\\\'s sixth album, Take a Look in the Mirror was released in November 2003. Korn produced this record themselves and cited it as a look back upon their career by returning back to a more stripped down and raw sound
In 2004, Korn released their greatest hits album, Greatest Hits, Volume 1. It featured two cover songs and a compilation of the band\\\'s hits from the past 10 years. The first single was a cover of the song \\\"Word Up!\\\", which was originally made popular by the group Cameo. The album also featured a medley of all three parts of Pink Floyd\\\'s \\\"Another Brick in the Wall.\\\" The song has become a concert staple ever since.The band\\\'s first release for Virgin Records, \\\"See You On The Other Side\\\" was released on December 6th 2005, and debuted on #3 on the Billboard 200, representing the band\\\'s 7th Top 10 debut. The first single off the album, \\\"Twisted Transistor\\\" was accompanied by a comic video directed by Dave Meyers in which famous rappers, including Xzibit, Lil\\\' Jon, Snoop Dogg, and David Banner actually played Korn.The album has sold over 1.7 million copies worldwide up to date, and went platinum in the U.S. on 13th March.On 13 January 2006, Korn threw a giant party at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery announcing the See You on the Other Side World Tour. Guests at the party included Guns N\\\' Roses lead singer Axl Rose and actress Jessica Biel. The first leg of tour, with 10 Years and Mudvayne, began on 24 February 2006 in their hometown Bakersfield and ended on 4th April in Toronto. It was highly successful leg of tour, and Korn earned approx. $7 million gross for it, and reached #15 spot on Pollstar\\\'s Top 20 Concert Grosses.Korn recently teamed up with crunk rap group Dem Franchize Boyz to record a mash-up of their latest hits Coming Undone and Lean Wit It, Rock Wit It, which occurred due to both the groups being signed to Virgin Records. During the session, Jonathan Davis stated that he believed that crunk and heavy metal were in the same vein. \\\"They are both energy. It just works,\\\" the singer said.In 2006, Korn\\\'s most popular song Freak On A Leash appeared on a countdown of Vh1\\\'s 40 Greatest Metal Songs Of All Time at #23.On June 12th, 2006, Jonathan Davis was diagnosed with Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, a blood defect that hospitalized him for the weekend and prevented him performing at the renowned Download Festival in the British Isles and has lead to Korn canceling the rest of their European bill.
\\\"Head\\\" took his nickname, an unwanted one, not from any sexual connotation, but from the large size of his head, \\\"Munky\\\" a reference to primate like feet whilst \\\"Fieldy\\\" was an abbreviation of \\\"Garfield\\\", in honor of the bassist\\\'s prominent cheeks.
The members are as followed.
Jonathan Davis a.k.a. HIV
James Shaffer a.k.a. Munky-guitarist
Reginald Arvizu a.k.a. Fieldy-bass
David Silveria-Drummer
On 22 February 2005, Brian \\\"Head\\\" Welch announced that he had \\\"...chosen the Lord Jesus Christ as his savior, and would be dedicating his musical pursuits to that end\\\", and was formally leaving Korn. Initial speculations that this was a hoax or practical joke were proven wrong; he has turned highly spiritual, even being baptized in the Jordan River and speaking openly about his faith and conversion, especially on his website. Welch has also stated that his reason for leaving the band had to do with his daughter reciting obscene Korn lyrics and the fact that he was fighting an addiction to crystal meth. This was to be the band\\\'s first, and so far only, line up change in their history.
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