Korn

Genres:	Heavy Metal • Music Videos & Concerts • Pop / Rock • Urban & Rap
Descriptive "tags":	nu metal • metal • rock • alternative • nu-metal • alternative metal
Decades Active:	1990s • 2000s
Links online:	Fan Page • IMDb • MusicMoz • MySpace • Official Homepage • Wikipedia • YouTube

Biography

This US band formed in the early 90s in Bakersfield, California, originally under the names LAPD and Creep. They toured widely, playing over 200 shows, before hooking up with producer Ross Robinson and recording their self-titled debut album for EastWest Records in 1994. The album was the first by one of the so-called ‘nu metal’ bands to break into the mainstream charts. The ferocious fusion of heavy metal and hip-hop essayed by original nu metal bands such as Korn, Limp Bizkit and Deftones proved hugely popular with teenage audiences in North America and Europe.

Subsequently based in Huntington Beach in California, Korn originally comprised Jonathan Davis (Jonathan Houseman Davis, 18 January 1971, Bakersfield, California, USA; vocals), Reginald ‘Fieldy’ Arvizu (b. 2 November 1969, Bakersfield, California, USA; bass), James ‘Munky’ Shaffer (b. 16 June 1970, Rosedale, California, USA; guitar), Brian Welch (b. 19...

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