
KORN To Release 'The Path Of Totality' In December
September 28, 2011KORN will release its tenth studio album,"The Path Of Totality", on December 6 viaRoadrunner Records.
But this one is unlike anyKORN record. It's even unlike any record released before.
"The Path Of Totality" is an experimental album which findsKORN shifting gears and exploring new territory. That should hardly come as a shock to the band's diehard fans, asKORN exploded onto the scene in the'90s and established themselves as hard rock game-changers from that point on.
For"The Path Of Totality", the band collaborated with some of the leading dubstep and electronic producers in the world, includingSkrillex,Excision,Datsik,Noisia,Kill the Noise, and12th Planet. The result is something completely new, yet utterly and definitivelyKORN. Leave it to a band likeKORN to continue to reinvent itself two decades deep into its career.
"The title'The Path Of Totality' refers to the fact that in order to see the sun in a full solar eclipse, you must be in the exact right place in the exact right time,"KORN frontmanJonathan Davis explained. "That's how this album came together. I think all the producers feel the same way. I'm not sure it could ever happen again"
The band's recent (and much lauded) collaboration with dubstep's hottest producer,Skrillex, titled"Get Up!", was the surprise rock hit of the summer, the buzz of which started inCoachella's dance tent in April 2011, whenJonathan andMunky joinedSkrillex on stage for a show stealing unannounced performance of the song.
That performance generated the start of a deafening buzz. The track has sold over 150,000 downloads, while the lyric video has generated nearly two million views and counting. The song, a Top 10 rock radio hit, still continues to be one of the best-testing songs on the format over 24 weeks after its release.
AddsJames "Munky" Shaffer, "'Get Up!' started as a bit of an experiment, but we had such an amazing response from our fans and had such a great time collaborating that a full album of tracks came together in a couple of months. We couldn't wait to get to the studio every day to finish the next song."
Some of the song titles from"The Path Of Totality" are:"Narcissistic Cannibal","Burn The Obedient","Illuminati","Kill Mercy Within" and "Chaos Lives In Everything".
The album will be released in two configurations: as a standard 11-song CD and a special edition CD that will include bonus tracks as well as a DVD of"The Encounter", a full-length video concert ofKORN's mind-blowing, once-in-a-lifetime performance in the middle of a 900-foot-long crop circle in a wheat field in Bakersfield. The complete concert, previously seen last year on TV and online in an abbreviated form, will be offered in its entirety to those who purchase the deluxe version.
The official "lyric video" forKORN's new single,"Get Up!", can be seen below.







