Kornin Jonathan Davis: ”Vietän aikaa enemmän synkissä kuin iloisissa olosuhteissa”

Yhdysvaltalaisen metalliyhtye Kornin vokalisti Jonathan Davis antoi hiljattain haastattelun Blank Slate Creative -sivulle liittyen mm. hiljattain julkaistuun ”The Serenity Of Suffering” -albumiin. Davis kertoi mm. levyn nimen viittaavan hänen masennukseensa, ja voit lukea hänen koko kommenttinsa tästä:

”Usually my man Munk [KORN guitarist James ’Munky’ Shaffer] comes up with album titles, ’cause he’s really good at it; he gets fifty different titles together and we all pick one. But this time, I just felt this one that I came up with just really nailed what I was going through when I was writing the record. It’s a place I always go to; it’s the inspiration when I’m writing music. It’s called ’The Serenity Of Suffering’, and that title means that I’ve always battled dark feelings in my life, and I’ve been there so much that I feel more comfortable there than I do when I’m in a happy spot. I’m not saying that I don’t enjoy being happy, ’cause I do; I’ve got lots of things to be happy about. I have a beautiful family, I get to tour the world and do what I love. But I spend more time in that dark place than I do in a happy place, so the title just wrapped up what I was going through with the record and [the themes covered in] the lyrics.”

Grammy-palkitun tuottaja Nick Raskulineczin (Foo Fighters, Deftones, Mastodon, Rush) kanssa työskentelyä Davis kommento seuraavasti:

”Nick really captured the band. He’s an amazing producer. Sonically, he made this band sound heavier than it’s ever sounded. I think he walked into the recording studio when the guys were writing on a mission to bring out that heaviness back into KORN. And I think between him and Munky and Head [KORN guitarist Brian Welch], they achieved that. And with me, he came out to Bakersfield, to my studio, and he really pushed me and wouldn’t let me just say, ’I don’t wanna do that song,’ that I wasn’t necessarily feeling that. He’s all, ’It’s a good song, man. You’ve just gotta keep at it, keep trying.’ And he really pushed me to to the point where I actually came up with some really interesting stuff on the songs.”

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