Music
Korn is now claiming to have invented dubstep
by Tyler Munro
November 29, 2011
Back in the 90s Korn and its fans would go on about how the band basically invented nu-metal (even though they basically just wrote sloppy, daddy-hating interpretations of the shittiest early Faith No More songs) but now that they’ve matured past their juvenile, angst-ridden past to the calculated, refined sounds of bro-step, they’re claiming they invented that, too.
Talking to Billboard, vocalist Jonathan Davis says Korn was “dubstep before there was dubstep.”
“Tempos at 140 with half-time drums, huge bassed-out riffs. We used to bring out 120 subwoofers and line them across the whole front of the stage, 60 subs per side. We were all about the bass,” he added.
When you really think about it, he’s not entirely wrong. Korn’s sound has always been dominated by Fieldy’s overly loud, out of tune work on the bass guitar, making the band’s appropriation of brostep’s trademark wobbling a natural fit.
The Path of Totality, Korn’s dubstep (or Kornstep) album, hits stores next Tuesday.
