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Interview Korn
 Fieldy (bass guitar on Korn) asking to Virginie and Doc' Korn is one of the greatest metal band in the world. You can find on Radio Metal a new vidéo of Fieldy, bass guitar on Korn. Radio Metal interviewed Fieldy just before Korn's concert at the Arena of Geneva (Switzerland). We spoke about Korn musical evolution, line up problems and of course "Untitled'', the last record of the american band. Enjoy our video! Interview conducted by Virginie and Doc' on 2008-02-24 in Geneva (Switzerland) You can find our 2 videos on the following links : Part 1 Part 2 This interview is available now : Radio Metal : At the beginning of your career, did you know that you had created a particular sound, a very different sound that could bring you such a huge success? Fieldy : We didn’t know. When we started with the song “Blind”, we didn’t even like it. I remember I wanted to take out the part where he sang “are you ready?”, I hated it. And the song ended up being known for that. We didn’t really know. You're known as the pionneer of nu metal. But you have been evolving since your first album. Do you think that “nu metal” is still a good term to define your musical style? I think it’s cool. Nu metal is a cool name. I don’t really know how we could call it anyway. I do a lot of interviews every day, and everybody always talks about nu metal. I like heavy metal, but if you want to call us nu metal, I’m cool with that. What do you think about nu metal in general? I like most of it, it’s cool. But I like old metal, too! Korn ins’t so exposed as a few years ago, whereas people still listen to and buy your records. What do you think of that? We’re still thankful and surprised that our fans still support us and we’re still here and rocking out. I don’t know what to think about it. I think that we’re gonna keep rocking out as long as our fans keep supporting us and buying our CDs. Do you think that there is a real fidelity of your fans about your evolution? You began with nu metal, and now you have this heavier, progressive music… I don’t really know. I think on the next Korn CD we’re going to go back to making it raw, like the first Korn records. We’ll experiment with that, just base raw sound, with bass, drums and guitars. We’ll try to go back to the roots. Apparently Jonathan has been working on his vocals: the voice and the lyrical contents are less aggressive. Does this mean that the band isn’t as angry as it was? I don’t think that we’ve ever been angry. It’s always been the same lyrics, the same situation, like personal relationships with girlfriends and wives. I don’t think we’ve ever made angry music. What song do you mean? For example, the story with Jonathan’s father… It was a different type of anger, like a pissed-off anger. Like, “getting your feelings hurt” type of anger. It’s an emotional anger rather than a Pantera-like anger. It’s different. You were also very angry when you released a single called Fuck that… That’s one song. I could give ten songs that aren’t angry. We do have a few angry songs here and there, but the majority of Korn’s songs are mostly about emotions, frustration and sadness through relationships. Your new album, Untitled, sounds more progressive than the others. Was it intended? I think what happened is that, at the time, we had to get a drummer. We were working with Terry Bozzio, who’s like the best drummer in the world. The way he plays drums, he’s really busy, so you have to move notes around more when you’re composing. We created this different music, and I thought it was a nice change, it was cool. It’s still heavy, but it’s more about moving notes. His drumming is very jazzy. Wasn’t it too difficult to work with it? It was challenging, but it was also easy, inspirational. The last record is entitled “Untitled” in order to let the fans name it themselves. What name would you give to Untitled yourself? It’s a difficult question. I don’t really know. That’s why we couldn’t title it! I’d probably call it “I don’t know”! At the moment, the band’s line up isn’t very clear. What is the current status of your drummer, David Silveria? David is involved in running some restaurants. There’s no talk about him wanting to come back or not. Right now we’re working with a new drummer, Ray, and he’s the best drummer I’ve played with in my entire musical career. People will have to see him to understand how good this guy is. Like I said, Terry Bozzio was the best drummer in the world, but Ray fits Korn better. He’s full, solid, heavy hitter. He’s amazing. Do you miss David? You’re always gonna miss the original chemistry. But when someone like Ray comes in and fits the shoes of the guy before him, that’s good. It’s good right now, it rocks. We saw Munky backstage, which means he has come back. Are you satisfied about this? Yeah. Unfortunately, personal family things happen. We never really cancel shows for any reasons. If it’s really serious, like something with family, we have to make a choice. He had to go and take care of some business, and now he’s back rocking. We played last night with him, we’ll play with him tonight. It’s rocking so good right now. There have been frequent problems of line-up since Head (Brian Welch) left the band; it may give doubts about the band’s future. One might have the impression that the band is slowly disintegrating, a bit like Sepultura, for example. What do you think of this analysis? For me and Munky, it was challenging, because we were not ready to stop. So it really pushed us to set over a brand new music. Back in the early days, me and Munky were the original writers anyway. Head wasn’t in the band yet. We released a CD called LAPD, just me and Munky, so we just knew we had to go back to the original writing. We miss Brian, because he’s a great musician, but we were not ready to stop, so we had to keep making music, keep rocking out the old songs and write new ones. It’s a new KORN for the fans… Yeah, it is, for now. But we haven’t really brought in another guitar player to replace Head yet because we’d love to see him back. We miss him. I would like to come back to an episode that has marked the French fans’ minds. At the Hellfest festival in June 2007, you cancelled your show because you thought that the situation was too dangerous. Can you give us your feeling about what happened now some time has gone by? When we were there, we saw the stage, which was underneath water. We could have been electrocuted, it wasn’t safe. We even took pictures. Every band that day, when we were backstage, was talking about cancelling. Everybody. They were like: “It’s not safe, we don’t wanna do this”. I think we made the right choice. I’m not gonna risk my life to play some music. I’d rather come back and do a proper show for everybody. We’ll come back. Yes, we want Korn in France! We’re gonna be back and do a proper good show. It won’t be a Hellfest either! Official KORN Website : www.korn.com |
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