What's Up magazine recently conducted an interview with Korn frontman Jonathan Davis. A couple of excerpts from teh chat follow below.
What's Up: When can fans expect a new Korn album?
Jonathan Davis: Korn is working on it. Getting started getting into it. The guys are doing the writing; I haven't been around. I always take myself out of the first part of the writing process because I always sing melodies, then tell the guys to play stuff on guitar, and I screw myself because they should have been vocal melodies. So I let them write the songs first, and then I come in and do the vocals and the melodies later.
What are some of the themes going to be lyrically for this next album?
Yeah, it's gonna be a concept record. I have these five symbols that I've come up with that I think are the downfall of man. And each symbol is going to have a couple songs about it and go through in order, and then a couple songs about how they are all tied together. That's just my general brainstorm right now. I'll get more into it when I hear the songs and start writing the lyrics.
What are the five symbols?
First one is drugs, the pharmacy side — a person who is not medicated or medicating themselves some way to deal with life. Second (is) religion, organized religion. I don't mean spirituality but religion in general, where people are controlled and believe their god is better than another god. Third one is the power symbol — most all humans are power hungry. Fourth is the money sign. People will do anything for money. Money — just the concept of it is stupid, and it's a pretty f*cked-up thing. The fifth one is time. It's our biggest enemy of all. Everyone is always battling time; people don't have time to do this, people don't have time to do that. They spend millions of dollars to buy Botox trying to buy time. I think it's a killer of all of us.
Is Ray Luzier going to be a permanent member of the band?
Yeah. He's writing this (new record) right now. So, yeah, he's our drummer.
How's he working out?
Great, he's an amazing, amazing drummer. He fits us perfect. He's on fire. He's great.
You've worked with Lil Wayne a couple of times and even did a remake of his song "Got Money". Why?
We only worked with him once. On his video, he asked us to be a part of it. I just liked that "Got Money" song with T-Pain and him. I just did the cover of it for fun, and I put it out for free for kids to download. I just like the way he raps and his style.
Read the entire interview from What's Up magazine.
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