KORN FINISHING UP NEW EFFORT

Korn is finishing up its new album, and it promises to be very different than anything anyone’s ever heard.

Korn is set to finish up work on their new album, which is set for release later this year. The band is minus David Silveria, with tracks done by Missing Persons and Zappa skin-basher Terry Bozzio. It’s the band’s follow-up to their first album for Virgin Records, See You On The Other Side.

Vocalist Jonathan Davis and guitarist James “Munky” Shaffer told us at the Family Values cemetery party recently that the album is like nothing they’ve ever done before.

“The last song I’m doing vocals. We only have two more days, and then the album will be done. It cannot compare to anything we’ve done in the past. It’s its own…” (To Munky) Do you think?” [Shaffer] “It’s a totally mature Korn. The songs have evolved I think with our age.” [Davis] “We’ve got Zack on keyboards, so we’ve got a lot of keyboards now. I’m not even going to try and explain it. You’ve just got to hear it.”

Aside from a different sound, they’re writing a different way — with pop hit songwriters The Matrix. Davis said it will still sound like Korn.

“We started off doing that and it’s turned into its own thing. It’s been a really cool experience, having someone outside coming in to write with us and then taking that and mixing it up, twisting it around, and doing it our own way. I don’t know. The way we did it this time was really interesting and fun.”

Korn will start to do the European Festival Circuit starting with Pinkpop on May 28 in Landgraaf. The band will kick off the Family Values Tour in St. Louis, Missouri on July 20.