Korn‘s new single, “Never Never”, will be made available for purchase digitally tomorrow Tuesday, August 13. The song, which can be streamed below, comes off Korn‘s 11th studio album, “The Paradigm Shift”, due on October 8 via Prospect Park. The follow-up to 2011’s “The Path Of Totality” features the return of guitarist Brian “Head” Welch to the lineup after more than eight years away. His last album with the band was 2003’s “Take A Look In The Mirror”.
Korn recently filmed a video for another song off “The Paradigm Shift”,“Love & Meth”. Welch wrote on Instagram about the video shoot: “Completely mind-blowing day!” [see picture].
Beginning Tuesday, August 13, fans will be able to pre-order “The Paradigm Shift”. The effort will be available in standard and deluxe editions, with the deluxe showcasing two bonus tracks and a documentary DVD titled “Reconciliation”.
“Never Never” features slow hulking beat stomps into screeching electronics before bleeding out on a bouncy chorus evocative of the swooping prowess of “Got the Life” and “Freak On A Leash”. “It was an amazing night when we finished that song,” says frontman Jonathan Davis. “It’s a relationship song. You go through that shit and you get hurt so bad. Then you think, ‘It’s not worth it anymore. I’m not going to fucking love again.’ You experience so many pressures to be a good dad, a good husband, a good lover, or whatever. Being in a relationship is a lot of work.”
Other songs on the new set, which was recorded with producer Don Gilmore [Linkin Park, Bullet For My Valentine, Lacuna Coil] at Buck Owens‘ studio in Korn‘s original hometown Bakersfield and at Los Angeles’s famed NRG Recording Studios, include “Prey For Me”, “Love & Meth”, “Spike In My Veins”, “Mass Hysteria”, “Paranoid And Aroused” and “Victimized”.
Tracklist:
01. Prey For Me
02. Love & Meth
03. What We Do
04. Spike In My Veins
05. Mass Hysteria
06. Paranoid And Aroused
07. Never Never
08. Punishment Time
09. Lullaby For A Sadist
10. Victimized
11. It’s All Wrong
12. Wish I Wasn’t Born Today [bonus track on deluxe edition]
13. Tell Me What You Want [bonus track on deluxe edition]
Upcoming Shows:
Sat, Aug 17, 2013 Shanghai Outdoor Stadium, Shanghai, China
Thu, Aug 22, 2013 Syracuse, NY, United States New York State Fair Grandstand
Sat, Aug 24, 2013 Rock Jam, Grand Junction, CO, United States
Fri, Aug 30, 2013 Isleta Amphitheater, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Sat, Sep 14, 2013 Discovery Park, Sacramento, CA, United States
Fri, Oct 11, 2013 Big Fresno Fair, Fresno, CA, United States
Sat, Oct 19, 2013 Arena Anhembi, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Weblinks: Website / Facebook / Twitter
Video below ‘Never Never’
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