Korn futures look bright as band pushes for growth

The metal band Korn scarcely paused before starting work on its eighth studio album after last year's Family Values Tour ended.

"I came home for like five or six days, and then I was in the studio," guitarist James "Munky" Shaffer says. "We were there right up until we mixed the record in May, then we started rehearsals [for the tour]."

"When we sit down to write a record, we don't really know how it's going to turn out," he says. "We don't consciously know that we're going to do something different, and I think that not planning and not trying to analyze the direction, it helps. We never really plan, like, 'This record is going to sound this way.'"

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