Korn's cathartic alternative metal sound positioned the group among the most popular and provocative to emerge during the post-grunge era. Korn began their existence as the Bakersfield, CA-based metal band LAPD, which included guitarists James "Munky" Shaffer and Brian "Head" Welch, bassist Reginald "Fieldy Snuts" Arvizu, and drummer David Silveria. After issuing an LP, the members of LAPD in 1993 crossed paths with Jonathan Davis, a mortuary science student moonlighting as the lead vocalist for the local group Sexart. They soon asked Davis to join the band, and upon his arrival the quintet rechristened itself Korn.
Korn's last album, 2002's Untouchables, was greeted to mainly deaf ears and a critical panning. The band who had done nothing less than re-invent heavy metal in the mid to late '90s had taken three years to record their fifth album and spent a small country's GDP on futuristic production techniques. In doing so, they lost half their audience which, ironically, had had its ears re-tuned to simpler, cleaner, "nu-metal" bands who wouldn't have existed without Korn's trailblazing in the first place.
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