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Ray Luzier Talks "The Path Of Totality", Van Halen + More!

What inspired the musical direction you took on ‘The Path of Totality’?

Korn has always had an element of hip-hop, reggae, funk. It’s an extreme direction, but to me it’s a Korn record at the end of the day. Jon [Davis], for the last several years, has been into dubstep music. He turned us onto Skrillex first, and said he was going to write some words on top of one of these songs. I didn’t know if it was going to be a solo project or what it was going to be. He said, “No, I want this to be the new Korn record.” That’s basically what happened. We thought maybe we would just make a five song EP. That was the plan, but it spread like wildfire. It was cool.

How did your part of the recording process work?
Jon would meet with most of the producers first, but a lot of the time the drums were the last things laid down. It’s usually the opposite. The drums are normally the first thing laid down and everything else goes on top of it. On our last record ‘Korn III’ we took time off the road and did it organically in a room, old school. We just sat in a room and wrote a song and recorded it 45 minutes later. On this album, Jon would do a vocal in Seoul, Korea. I would do a drum track in Honolulu, Hawaii.

It was a really different process for me, because I’m all about the song. If it calls for a lot of wacky fills or beats I’m all for it. But these songs are so heavy and powerful. The samples that dubstep people use are so massive, I found myself doing extra stuff, and it would ruin the beat and ruin the song. So I ended up playing really simplistic on this record. And live I wanted to make sure I played everything organically, meaning I played every note. We play our set in thirds. The second set is all dubstep, so I switch out my acoustic snare with an electric snare. We had Viggy, Tommy Lee’s guy, program everything. He did it so when I hit the snare, it’s the verse, and it will change automatically to the chorus snare. So that’s how we do it. I play every note live.

How did the actual fan reaction to the direction of the new album compare to what your expectations were of their reaction?
You’re always going to piss somebody off. You can’t make everyone happy. On the last record we went old school and brought Ross Robinson back (who produced Korn’s first two albums), and some people said, “Come on, it’s the same old thing!” For this one we went extreme. A lot of fans came up to us at the beginning of the tour and said they were still trying to digest it. Now they have seen it a couple of times, and most of them tell us they love it. I’m also getting emails from 16-year-old Skrillex fans who had never heard of Korn, but bought the record because he (Skrillex) was on it. So we’re turning new fans onto it.

You’ve even made the Billboard dance charts with this one.
It’s crazy. We’re still No. 5 in Europe. We won album of the year from Revolver. It’s kind of nuts to go off into left field like that. You don’t know what fans are going to say. Korn fans are so die-hard.

You were in Los Angeles to accept the Revolver Golden God award for best album…
Yes. Me and Fieldy showed up to accept it, but he was with his daughters and ended up leaving early. So I had to accept it by myself. I’ve been in the band for five years, but haven’t been in the band for 19 years like some of the guys. There were a couple of Ray fans there, but most of them were probably looking behind me, wondering where the guy with the dreads was. (laughs) It was an honor. We were nominated for a Grammy for ‘Korn III,’ and then the album of the year for ‘The Path of Totality.’ It doesn’t suck being in this band right now, that’s for sure.

Is there any place you still want to get to and play live?
It’s funny you ask that, because we just added India in August, and I’ve always wanted to go to India. That will be cool. I think it’s the first time there for Korn, too. With my previous bands I never got to go to nearly as many places as Korn has. My first tour was South Africa, Dubai, crazy places I never thought I would end up.

Read the rest of the interview by Loudwire here.

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Rolling Stone Interviews Jonathan Davis

What can Korn fans expect from the summer tour?

We're bringing this new type of music we made to all the fans. It's a dance-rock hybrid show. We got these video screens. It's just a mixture of both scenes. It's really cool seeing metal fans and EDM fans with glow-sticks in the same room; it's pretty intense.

You don't see a lineup like Boonstock's very often. What's it like for you to play with acts like Chukie, Kill The Noize and Puddle of Mudd at the same festival?
I love those guys. The [EDM] scene is a family-type scene; everybody is like homies. It's way different than the rock scene, so it's really nice to go out there and experience that kind of crowd and then go back and see the other crowd, 'cause I love both.

How is it more of a family vibe than the rock scene?
They're always together, they're all friends; it's different. I don't want to talk shit about the rock scene – it's just nice to see that kind of brotherhood going on. It makes me feel good, and I saw that in rock before but I haven't seen it in a while. We used to have that when we were touring around with the Deftones in like '93, '94, and then it just kind of stopped. Everyone else did their thing and we did our thing, but in the dance scene they're looping everybody in with everybody. It's just all one big scene.

What do you think caused all the band beefs?
I think there was a lot competition in the rock scene. And I know there's gotta be competition in the EDM scene, but the people I've been around – I can't say I've been around everybody, but that's what I noticed.

It was nice to see bands like Gaslight Anthem show support for Tom Gabel after he came out as transgender last week. What was your reaction to that news?
I think it's cool. If you feel inside you are a woman, be a woman – no one can take that away from you, man. No one can make that feeling go away. If that's what you need to do to be complete, then no one has the right to tell you you can't do that.

In the same week, North Carolina voted to ban gay marriage and Obama officially declared his support for it.
It's cool Obama supported that – that's one good thing he's done. I think if two people love each other, they should be able to get married. That's pretty much simple. But there are people who are very, very conservative that believe it should be between a man and a woman. I don't want to get in the middle of this stuff. As long as people get treated equally, I don't care. If a man and a man get together and they get the same rights and everything, whatever they want to call it, call it. But it's just a touchy-ass subject. Everybody gets offended.
People get so crazy, and that's the problem – these preconceived notions in people's heads that they should have the right to judge people on what they do. "Oh, that's horrible, those two men are together." "What the fuck does that have to do with you?" I never get that. To me love is love, and if two people love each other they should have the right to be wed or union-ed, or whatever the hell you want to call it. It sucks that North Carolina made it illegal, and it sucks that California made it illegal. I think people should be able to do what they want to do.

You're recording an EP under your DJ name, J Devil. How's that coming along?
Oh, it's coming out so good. I'm having so much fun doing whatever, going against the grain. I got three or four more songs done while I was out here. I'm just having a blast writing electronic music that's really different. People have been freaking out about it. I'm just writing and writing, trying to find what I really want it to be. And when it's ready we'll pick a single, put it out on Beatport and do it the old-school way. I got some different styles I'm mashing together and I want it to be really, really right.

Will you go to any of the upcoming dance festivals?
I got three boys now – they're young and they need their dad and I'm gone months at a time, so if one of the festivals is close by, I'll grab my two little ones that are with me and check it out. It's funny, one of them loves rock music and one of them loves electronic music, so they're little critics. Pirate loves rock and he's seven, and Zeppelin just turned five and he loves electronic music. He's a huge LMFAO fan. All he does is walk around singing their songs, and when I'm producing J Devil stuff he'll come in and say, "That's so awesome, Daddy!" He'll get so excited. I know I'm doing a good job if he starts dancing. He's my little muse, I guess.

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