KORN Includes Keyboardist In Songwriting Process For New Album
October 23, 2006According to Rolling Stone magazine, KORN has included keyboardist Zac Baird in the recording process for its eighth studio album.
"Everybody counted us down and out and said what we do is dead," KORN frontman Jonathan Davis said. "[On our last record, 2005's 'See You on the Other Side'] I think we proved to people that it's not, and now we're totally ready to knock it out of the park."
The band hit a Los Angeles studio in early October to begin work on the disc, which it hopes to release next spring.
"I'll probably pull a lot from my near-death experience," Davis said of his brush this year with a rare immune disease that left him with a platelet count close to zero.
"Dude, that affected me a lot. I'm all about my family now — it makes you reprioritize."
Pop producers The Matrix, who worked on "See You on the Other Side", will return for the new project. And the band is including a keyboardist in the writing process for the first time.
He's doing really cool melodies and very ambient stuff too," Davis told Rolling Stone.
In the meantime Davis is planning his first solo tour, which will combine acoustic takes on KORN obscurities with cover songs (PRINCE's "Erotic City").
"It's not going to be like a KORN show, but I think it will be a fun night," he said.
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