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KORN
TEAM WITH SKRILLEX, FEED ME, EXCISION, 12^TH PLANET, NOISIA,
DOWNLINK AND KILL THE NOISE FOR THEIR NEW ALBUM
‘THE PATH OF TOTALITY’ DUE OUT ON DECEMBER 6

VENUES ANNOUNCED FOR BALLROOM “P.O.T.” TOUR

EACH DATE TO FEATURE UNIQUE MIX OF ROCK AND DUBSTEP
WITH LIVE PERFORMANCE BY KORN AND DOPE D.O.D.
PLUS DJ SETS BY DATSIK AND DOWNLINK

Leave it to a band like KORN to continue to reinvent itself two decades and ten albums deep into its career.  THE PATH OF TOTALITY—due out December 6 on Roadrunner Records—is an experimental album which finds KORN shifting gears and exploring new territory with some of the most important emerging producers on the electronic music scene today.

For THE PATH OF TOTALITY and its corresponding “P.O.T.” ballroom tour this November, the band will change course again by collaborating with the likes of leading U.S., U.K. and Dutch dubstep trailblazers Skrillex, Feed Me, Excision,Datsik, Noisia, Kill the Noise and 12th Planet on record as well as on stage.  Expect something completely new, yet utterly and definitively KORN.

The band’s first offering from the album “Get Up!” with Skrillex was the surprise Top 10 rock hit of the summer, the buzz of which started in April in Coachella‘s Sahara tent when Jonathan and Munky joined Skrillex on stage for a show-stealing unannounced performance of the song. Check out the track at:  http://tinyurl.com/3q3rmqa.  Now KORNhas unleashed “Narcissistic Cannibal,” another creation with Skrillex and Kill the Noise at www.korn.com.

Other tracks on THE PATH OF TOTALITY include “Kill Mercy Within” and “Let’s Go” with untouchable Dutch production trio Noisia, Excision tracks “My Wall” and “Illuminati” with Downlink and “Way Too Far” per American dubstep pioneer 12th Planet.  Deep bass turns come courtesy of the one and only Feed Me on “Bleeding Out.”

Look for KORN to kick off the first leg of their “Path of Totality (P.O.T.)” tour on November 3 at the House of Blues in Boston.  The band will perform material from the new album as well as tracks from their extensive catalog.   On each date, they will be supported by dubstep DJs Datsik and Downlink, as well as a live set by young upstart Dutch Dub-rockers Dope D.O.D. for an unforgettable, one-of-a-kind musical experience unlike any other KORN tour.

Dates for KORN’s “P.O.T.” tour are:

*More dates and specific venue information to be announced shortly.

Altitude TV spoke with KORN guitarist James “Munky” Shaffer about the songwriting and recording process for the band’s next album. Watch the four-minute clip below.

On how the songwriting/recording process is coming along:

“Right now we are in the studio making another record. We are doing it with Ross Robinson; he’s producing it. It’s so much fun to be recording with him again, ’cause he has such a passion for what we did on the first two albums. That, for him and us, that kick-started our careers; for him as well. And he just keeps putting out platinum albums.

“We didn’t drift apart, but we wanted to try other producers, we wanted to kind of experiment, but it just feels like we’ve been on a long journey and we’ve come home again.”

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Former Korn guitarist Brian ‘Head’ Welch, who spectacularly quit the nu-metal titans in 2005 after finding Jesus, recently asked to rejoin the band, guitarist James ‘Munky’ Shaffer alleges.

“It’s kind of a strange thing, Brian actually contacted us recently and wanted to come back to the band,” Munky told Attitude TV. “And it was not the right time for us.”

Upon his departure, Welch was featured on US news channel CNN being baptised in the River Jordan. He subsequently started a heated exchange in the media with singer Jonathan Davis, slamming his former band and claiming “Korn care only about making money.”

“It’s kind of like if you divorced your wife and she went on and she stayed successful and her career flourished, and you go back and say, ‘My gosh, she’s still hot.’ ‘Baby, can we get back together?’,” Munky continued. “I don’t see it happening right now.”

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