Born in Bakersfield , California, Korn has become on of the most popular new bands of the nineties. They have revolutionized heavy-metal music, by injecting several different musical influences into traditional rock, from hip-hop and rap to 70's funk music. This strange blend of sound gives Korn a sound of its own. The different styles involved do give the songs such atmosphere that the show-goers cannot simply sit in there seats and say "Hmm...good" The fans feel the urge to jump in the most pit and enjoy the music at its core, letting all of their energy flow with the tonal explosion that Korn puts out for them. This is how Korn wins fans. Not by cheap advertising with music videos, but by steady unrelenting touring and recording giving the fans the full experience and therefore winning them for life. This strategy has given Korn a much longer life span than the passing fad. And Korn shows no signs of stopping or slowing down.                                                      

How Korn achieve their peculiar sound is very different from other bands. The first major difference is the use of seven-string guitars by Head and Munky, very rare instruments in rock music. The extra string gives the guitar a much lower tone, allowing Korn's guitarists a wider range of chords to execute. Not to be dominated by conformity, Head and Munky also tune their guitars in a way very different than most rock guitarists. Whereas most guitarists would use the classic tuning for a seven string guitar (B E A D G B E), Korn's guitarists tune them to a strange (A D G C F A D). This gives Korn's guitar riffs a distinct feel, and an almost eerie blend of hard-biting low tones and ear piercing high tones. Fieldys bass setup also differs from most bands. Using a five string bass tuned down to a shaky low A D G C F, and employing a unique and amazing hammer-style technique. Fieldy gives the Korn bass line a very rhythmic, almost percussion-like personality. It is by differing from the sludge of average bands that Korn has gained success. In a recent interview Jon said that "Korn's sound isn’t special anymore because every band is coping it." That is why no one Korn album sounds the same as the previous one. Korn goes through a stage of evolution on each album. Jon said the new Korn CD would be the "Cream of the crop".  Look out for  Korn's new CD in 2002.