A couple of months ago, nu-metal stalwarts Korn made a lot of people feel afraid for the future when they released “Get Up!,” a collaboration with brostep avatar Skrillex. Their new album The Path Of Totality is said to be packed with such big-room bassbin experiments. But to hear Korn frontman Jonathan Davis tell it, Korn basically invented brostep.
Talking to Billboard, Davis says, “We were dubstep before there was dubstep. Tempos at 140 with half-time drums, huge bassed-out riffs. We used to bring out 120 subwoofers and line them across the whole front of the stage, 60 subs per side. We were all about the bass.” It’s true! Korn was all about the bass! Stick that in your pipe and smoke it, Kode9!
Davis also takes a moment to paint a ghastly image of what Korn shows look like now: “It’s really cool to see glow sticks at the show, to see dance music culture infiltrating and becoming one with the metal community. At the last show, there was one mosh pit where they were moshing, and another with kids doing glow stick tricks. They were taking turns and shit. I think we’ve opened up a new style that both sides are happy with.” Let’s see if we can get some Twilight obsessives in there too, and just call it a day.
The Path Of Totality is out 12/2 on Roadrunner. Weirdly, there’s another newish metal album out now called Path Of Totality, and that one is totally good. And now let’s all mentally prepare ourselves for the moment when Staind take credit for chillwave.
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Right. This is just like how Bob Dylan invented punk. Same thing.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Great retort!
Let’s all just take a moment to appreciate the fact that none of us would even KNOW about dubstep without the genius of Al Gore’s information superhighway, thank you very much.
Wait, now Al Gore invented the internet?
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How can Staind take credit for chillwave?
I invented it, obviously.
Actually, back when emo was being bastardized, a lot of kids at school used to refer to Staind as an emo band. If you think about it, emo and dubsteb have a lot in common in that they’ve become a fashionable, misleading label being commercialized by Hot Topic bands into something they’re not. The same fake emo kids who listened to My Chemical Romance 5 years ago, wore black eyeliner and had that awful girl-boy cutup hairstyle are probably rocking Skrillex now, except now they’re wearing neon.
Thanks, Captain Obvious.
Korn invented writing words with “K” instead of “C” and backwards letters.
…oh no, wait…black people may have beat them to it.
It’s a little known fact that Korn also invented the George Foreman grill before George Foreman took credit for it. They just don’t like to brag about what visionaries they are…
OMG … that is a riot!
Oh, it’s turning into one of those threads… wait, wait… yeah! BOOM: Korn also invented dreads.
Bah. Everyone knows Paul McCartney invented Chillwave:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9BZDpni56Y
bro no doubt. acid xmas party paul mccartney mccraftin christmas cuts like larry bird ballin two testies gettin grabbed by bisexual TWINS.
That was amazing what I did there.
Most definitely. That’s definitely the riff Neon Indian cops in “Polish Girl.”
OMG, so it wasn’t Kode9, or anyone FACT/Resident Advisor told me about? TWIST
By the way, that is the ugliest effing album cover I’ve seen this year.
Lulu, your competition just got tougher.
I want to upvote this post so hard.
The only thing Korn invented was a soundtrack to go along with my repressed homosexuality in high school that manifested itself in misspelled ethnic slurs and a futile attempt to join the wrestling team. Why won’t the jocks let me party with them like it’s 1999?Fuck!!!! No one gets me!!!
one of the funniest things i’ve ever read
and yes, i mean funnier than all the james thurber and terry southern i’ve read for anyone who wants to diss my tastes/testes
seriously tho, KoRn was the SHIT in 1999
this is fucking bullshit, man.
AIDS.
Elvis invented socially conscious hip hop: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRfITydVZ7A
WOW, it keeps getting better all the time! Every “ding-dong” out there has invented it all, gee, where does that leave the hip-hop-slops?—-Oh Ya, you top notch guru’s of garbage, can go get a drum machine and a big amp & speakers, and kill the enemy!—-Now that makes more sense to me!
OOPS, forgot to add, is that Korn, or Korn-Hole???