Davis: "[KORN] is heavy, but I've always said KORNwas never really a… I mean, it's heavy, but it's not a metal band. Metal, to me, is a different attitude — it's a whole different thing. I'm glad we're embraced by it. I think it's more of the IRON MAIDENs… That term 'metal'… When we came out, no one knew what the fuck to do with us — they didn't know what to do with us — and it was the metal community that embraced us, and that's where we went. But we were something different to that — we were more of a funky rock… I don't even know what the hell we were doing… alternative — whatever it was. But I'm very grateful to the metal community for embracing us and taking us in. But I never got that — I never understood the metal thing, because metal's really extreme. I mean, I love it — don't get me wrong — but I never felt that we fit that mould. Maybe because we were doing something different. Now that I'm older, it's all good — call us whatever the fuck you want. Thank you for listening still 25 years later… To be honest, I didn't know about MEGADETH or any of that shit [when KORN first started]. I'm like an '80s New Romantic kid — you can tell in my solo music. That's the beauty of KORN— we're all into different shit, and it comes out together and this is what makes KORN. But I didn't listen to [any metal]. I listened to and loved LED ZEPPELIN. And then when I was really young, when MÖTLEY CRÜE 'Shout At The Devil' came out, and DIO 'Holy Diver'… and what else? Some IRON MAIDEN… Right when I started listening to it, my dad grabbed it and burnt the shit, 'cause [he thought] it was Satanic and I was forbidden to listen to it. So that pushed me in another [direction]. [I was, like], 'Well, fuck you, dad. I'm gonna find something else.' And that's when I got into SKINNY PUPPY and MINISTRY and all that Wax Trax shit. And that's when I went that way and [got into] more gothic stuff."
might be my favourite off Come Clarity actually.
