KOЯN'S BIOGЯAPHY

KoЯn was created by the ex-members of LAPD: Head, Munky, and Fieldy in the little town west of Death Valley called Bakerfield, California. They wanted to make a music that no one has done before. Head, Munky, and Fieldy went to a local bar and saw Jonathan playing with the Sexarts. They, later, encourage Jonathan Davis to join their new band, KoЯn. It took Jonathan sometime before he entered the world of KoЯn. They needed a drummer and David saw the ad that KoRn's needing a drummer so he called them up and the army of KOЯN was loaded by that time. So the shows begin.

KoЯn toured for more than two years before they got signed by Immortal. They released their first debut Self-titled album by July 7, 1994. The whole World was shocked when they KoЯn entered the world of music. No body knew how to label them because of their unqiue 7-string guitar sounds, David's cool double bass drum skills, Fieldy's sweet funky bass slapping that sometimes the people mistaken it by the drum bass, and, of course, Jonathan Davis's masterpiece lyric about his childhood, his bagpipes intro in Shoots and ladders, his unique vocal skills. Sadly, the radio and MTV weren't ready for KoЯn's unknown music.

So KoЯn took their grisly show on the road someplace they knew it'd get noticed: back to the tour circuit, and a stint on Ozzfest. The kids directly relate to Jon's lyrical obssesion and fall in love with KoЯn's music and there was no band like KoЯn at that time.

October 15, 1996, they released their second album, Life Is Peachy, platinum sales. while Peachy served more to reinforce the band's core sound rather than innovate in the manner of the debut, it did introduce to the world to a side of the band that no one ever suspected that it exists: humor. The bagpipe-driven cover version of War's "Lowrider" was just one example. An A-Z dictionary of vulgarity called "K@#%!" was another-though some critics, and self-appointed moral guardians were put off by the language. The high school administrator suspended a student for wearing a T-shirt that said "KOЯN". He thought he killed KoЯn's fan base, but it didn't die. In fact, it grew stronger.

In 1998, KoЯn's third album, Follow The Leader, debut No. 1 on US Billboard Top 200. Their Freak On the Leash and Got The Life music video was on MTV most of the time. By that time, the world appreciated KoЯn's genius music. Rolling Stone christened Follow the Leader one of the best alternative albums of the '90s, praising KoЯn's ability to channel "their disgust with the state of the nation-and the generation doomed to inherit it-into booming, articulate violence." Follow The Leader exposed other side of KoЯn.

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