Korn Returning To Early Material With New Album

People who think Korn "sold out" after their first two albums could likely be very pleased with this news.

Singer Jonathan Davis and bassist Fieldy (real name Reginald Arvizu) told Revolver magazine the disc will sound a lot like the material found on their 1994 self-titled debut and 1996's Life Is Peachy.

"We experimented with a lot of cool stuff on our last two records [2005's See You On The Other Side and 2007's untitled release], but we didn't want to do another record like that," Davis told the magazine. "So we said, 'Let's strip it back again. Let's do this as a four-piece and make it real raw like the old stuff."

Part of the return to their old sound comes from working with producer Ross Robinson (Slipknot, Limp Bizkit), who produced their first two albums.

Fieldy told Revolver Robinson was a natural choice to produce the as-yet-untitled new album, which the band tracked in October on tape and should be out sometime in June.

"We made sure that every song we were working on had everything that represents the integrity that you hear on [Korn]," he said. "There's one faster, really heavy song that's pretty different for us, but the rest is a combination of everything we were in '93. It's funky; it's heavy; it's melodic. It's everything, man. It's Korn."

Robinson apparently got Davis to return to unpleasant memories... does that mean 17 minutes of screaming and crying like there was on Korn's "Daddy"? Sure sounds like it.

"I basically went fucking crazy making this record," Davis told the magazine. "When I was done, I was emotionally gone and in tears and everything. And the memories don't just go away. I'd brew on 'em all day. It was rough."

You can see Davis, Fieldy and guitarist Munky at Caracas, Venezuela's Soldi Fest on Jan. 28.