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BiOgRaPhY
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In the early '90s, heavy music looked to be going the way of the dinosaurs: Well-heeled Brit-pop and well-scrubbed pop-punk were thoroughly dominating the guitar-rock landscape, and few surviving old-school metal acts seemed hopelessly unable to adapt.
But somewhere within the vast, murky Southern California wasteland, a dynamic new species was being born, a foward-thinking beast that diregarded the mistakes of heavy bands past while meshing dark, urban rhythms and low-tuned guitar sludge with violent, expressionist blast of hip-core noise. That and the wildly emotional vocals of JONATHAN, which alternated between a bourbon-smooth croon and a viscerally sharp howl, made for a revolutionary mix that refined heavy rock better that anyone had in a decade. The result was a monster self-titled debut album that went solid platinum, and by the time 1996's LIFE IS PEACHY was realeased, this beast had a fanbase over two million strong--and a legion of musical imitators so large it threatened to saturate the planet. It was time for the rules to change...Hence KORN...
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