Munky says the band is finished writing its next album and is about halfway through recording it.
Korn reteamed with Atticus Ross and the Matrix, who co-produced Korn’s the band’s last studio album, 2005’s “See You on the Other Side” Ross’ brother Leo has also joined the team. Asked to compare this album to “Other Side,” Munky says it’s “pretty close to the same lines, but I think it’s more refined. The band wants to finish recording by March 15 so it can release the album in late June or early July. This would dovetail with Korn’s European tour dates that have been announced for the beginning of June. However, Korn drummer David Silveria is still on hiatus, which Munky attributes to needing a break from the grind of working a record. Temporary replacement Terry Bozzio has helped co-write Korn’s new album. Since guitarist Brian “Head” Welch left the band in 2005, Korn has performed live with a second guitarist offstage handling Welch’s parts. “If he was like a backup drummer, I don’t know how much we’d have him onstage,” he says.īut Munky says Bozzio will be onstage with the band during the next tour. And that’s something you have to do, because you have to have the drummer visible. In between his Korn commitments, Munky has been working on his own record label, Emotional Syphon Recordings, since last July. So far he has signed two bands, Monster In The Machine and Droid, and plans on putting together an eclectic roster. (Navarre is handling distribution.) He hopes to release both albums in early June, and that “in 10 years I’ll have 40 bands on the roster. The melodies really pop out.I want to kind of pay back what was given to me,” he says of starting the label.The performance, part of the MTV Unplugged series, took place in MTV studios in Times Square, New York City on December 9, 2006, in front of a crowd of approximately fifty people. The way I hear things in my head sometimes, the more in a heavy band, I'm more about melody and shit like that, so… when I heard, it was really cool. I think she's a great girl and I love that cover - it came out beautifully. What was really cool was that in Europe, they were supposed to headline over us and she refused to do it and made us headline over them. She's told me time and time again that she's a huge KORN fan. "It's a huge, huge thing when an artist thinks of doing a cover of one of our songs, it just blows us away, and she does it so beautifully. "Yeah, we did a couple of shows with in Europe and played it," he told The Blitz 99.7 FM. This is what Jonathan Davis from Korn had to say about the band:
"Don't cry to me," blurted a member of the audience (a line from Evanescence's latest single, " Call Me When You're Sober"), which had the whole room laughing." -from VH1.com: Korn Quiet Down With the Cure, Amy Lee for 'MTV Unplugged' "At the song's conclusion, Lee sprung from her chair and informed the audience that her dress had become stuck on a nail protruding from a leg on Davis' chair.
The performance was recorded on Decemat MTV studios in Times Square, New York City to a crowd of about 50-60 people.