Korn talk ahead of Birmingham Barclaycard show with Limp Bizkit – interview
They are two of the biggest names in rock – Korn and Limp Bizkit are giving fans a double helping of metal as part of their joint UK winter tour.
The co-headlining tour sees the bands play six arena dates in December, with a show on Thursday at Birmingham's Barclaycard Arena.
Korn are promoting their 12th album, The Serenity of Suffering, which was released in October.
Guitarist Brian 'Head' Welch has had a busy year because he's written a new memoir.
He said: "You need to tell your story. It's real controversial. You left Korn, and people don't understand. They think you've gone crazy. So, why don't you just tell your whole story and how you got here."
His current manager felt that reunion warranted a second memoir, the follow-up to one he wrote when he was 37.
"My manager was like, 'okay, you went back to Korn. It's real controversial. People need to understand what's going on'. So, that's why we did it. At first, with both books, I was like, 'man, I don't want to do that'. I'm not, like, a writer. I was never good at school. None of that stuff. And then when I thought about it, prayed about it, I was like OK, this needs to happen."
His book was called With My Eyes Wide Open: Miracles & Mistakes on My Way Back to Korn.
It tells about his life with his daughter.
As he writes in the book: "It was a fresh start. Just the two of us. I bought us a beautiful little three-bedroom house right at the base of a rocky, Arizona desert-looking mountain. It was a great neighborhood with nice families and close to a solid school system. Typical suburbia. Very stable and very normal. In fact, the only weird thing in the whole neighborhood was me."
Limp Bizkit formed in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1994 and have sold more than 40 million records worldwide and won numerous awards. They are currently recording their seventh studio album, Stampede of the Disco Elephants.
Frontman Fred Durst will be delighted to be back on tour considering he said earlier this year his favourite way to connect with fans was to meet them face to face.
He said in an interview: "We are all keyboard King Kongs, know what I mean? It's like, come on. I love seeing a guy who's kind of ripping it up, so outspoken and so opinionated. Life from his perspective is the end all, be all and 'you are an idiot if you don't think like me and think like that'.
"And if you get a moment to meet that person, in person, all of a sudden you see who they are and they see who you are, and it is a beautiful little connection there. Sometimes I reach out to those people privately; I feel so bad that they seem so unhappy and just say something awesome to them, something genuine. The direct contact is the most visceral, meaningful to me."
The show will be opened by hardcore band Madball.
