KORN NEW ALBUM IN JULY, EVANESCENCE, TRIVIUM SET FOR FAMILY VALUES

Korn has revealed that they will release a brand new album in July, and they’ll support it once again on the Family Values Tour. This year’s line-up for Family Values includes Korn, Evanescence, Atreyu, Trivium, Flyleaf, and HellYeah, the new band featuring members of Mudvayne and Vinnie Paul of Pantera. The tour is has announced cities, but no dates or venues.

With Virgin recently folded into Capitol records, the new label inherits the deal with Korn. At a press conference last year, vocalist Jonathan Davis said that their deal is a true partnership, where most deals aren’t.

“This model as a partnership it seems like for us it’s good because we’re not working for a label anymore and feel like we’re making this label all this money while we’re not making anything off our records. So, when we did this deal it was like a 30-70 split. It’s an incentive deal for the label to do their job because they’re going to get a cut of our touring and our merchandise, anything we bring in from the video games, videos, whatever it is, we split everything. If the label promotes us correctly and we’re more successful, the more we all win. We retain all our digital rights. We can do whatever we want on the internet.”

Davis and drummer David Silveria who is on sabbatical with the band for this album/tour cycle, added that the label is actually incentivized to promote the band, its tours, and its recordings.

[Davis] “We got a lot of stuff out of the deal, so it’s really good for us. It was a deal that we wanted to do. We got offered all kinds of other deals from other people, but they were just the same old screw you or the band over kind of deal.” [Silveria] “It kind of means they make less than a traditional record deal so it makes them work harder on their end.” [Davis] “Exactly.”

The line-up for the tour is far from complete. The band plans to make later announcements on additions to the line-up. Last year the Family Values tour had $9.99 lawn seats, and a press release said that it will be “the cheapest lawn ticket of the summer.” The press release also included Live Nation, which should know that isn’t true because it’s promoting OzzFest 2007 where all tickets are free.