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Next KORN Album Going For 'Old-School' Sound

February 27, 2009

KORN frontman Jonathan Davis revealed to The Pulse of Radio this week that guitarist James "Munky" Shaffer, bassist Reginald "Fieldy" Arvizu and drummer Ray Luzier are in the studio writing music for the next KORN album. The band's ninth effort will be produced by Ross Robinson, who also worked on their first two albums. Davis told The Pulse of Radio that the group intends to get back to the sound of those early CDs. "It's gonna be very raw, it's gonna be old school like the first KORN records," he said. "Basically, it's gonna be recorded as a four-piece band, with just Munky on guitars and Fieldy and Ray and me. We really want to go back to that old-school vibe. It was just really intense and emotional and, you know, I have a lot of built-up aggression toward certain things that I need to get out for this record."

Davis said that many of the lyrics on the upcoming album will deal with the topic of organized religion.

Ex-KORN guitarist Brian "Head" Welch left the band after becoming a born-again Christian, and Arvizu discusses his conversion to Christianity in a memoir that's being published in March.

KORN will play Ohio's Rock On The Range festival in May and several European festivals this summer before recording the new album later this year.

The band will also be looking for a home for the yet-to-be-titled disc since completing its two-album deal with Virgin Records in 2007.

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