KORN Frontman Featured In INFECTED MUSHROOM Video

KORN's Jonathan Davis is featured in the new video, "Smashing the Opponent" (see below),from the Israeli-bred, Los Angeles-based electronic duo INFECTED MUSHROOM. The song is the first single from the eighth studio album from INFECTED MUSHROOM, "Legend Of The Black Shawarma", which is due on September 8, 2009 via electronic music giant Paul Oakenfold's Perfecto label.

Directed by Petro and co-conceived with Davis, the clip was recently shot at Los Angeles' Roxy Theatre and the massive electronic music festival Electric Daisy Carnival in Los Angeles (Saturday, June 27) which drew over 90,000 people. The video — keeping in line with the band's engaging persona — combines hilarious concept scenes and appearances by Davis and Oakenfold, as well as the unpredictable antics of actor/choreographer Ryan Heffington, a.k.a. Super Star DJ, and humongous closet INFECTED MUSHROOM fan Baron van Douche, with dazzling live performance footage of INFECTED MUSHROOM.

For "Legend Of The Black Shawarma", INFECTED MUSHROOM's Amit "Duvdev" Duvedevani and Erez Eisen return with their patented hybrid of thrashing metal and psychedelic trance to bring a frenetic rock energy to the form and venture where other electronic acts fear to tread. The album's lead single, "Smashing the Opponent", features a scorching vocal from Davis, while JANE'S ADDICTION frontman Perry Farrell lends his inimitable pipes to the follow-up track, "Killing Time". "Recording with Jonathan and Perry was a highlight, of course," Duvdev notes. "They were both incredibly cool. The fact that they liked the tracks was awesome because we're huge fans of what they do."

The album is the follow-up to 2007's "Vicious Delicious" and takes INFECTED MUSHROOM's psy-trance fusion of bruising, metallic rock and unstoppable dance-floor beats to a new level. "It's a really diverse record," Duvdev says, "but it's even more aggressive–both on the metal side and on the breakbeat side." Taking its time to craft the album, the duo worked on "Shawarma" whenever their frenetic, globe-trotting tour schedule permitted.

And what of the album's mysterious, culinary title? "We were on tour in Australia two years ago," he explains. "My friend came to me said, 'I have this dream to dive with sharks.' They do that in Australia–you're lowered into shark-infested waters in a cage." At that point, Duvdev warned his burly friend that in a wetsuit he would resemble, to toothy denizens of the deep, a certain meat wrap of Middle Eastern origin. "I told him if he did this, there were five gigantic sharks waiting for a shawarma like him to come down in a cage and be devoured. We thought that was pretty funny and the Legend of the Black Shawarma was born."

INFECTED MUSHROOM's explosive show — featuring guitars, live drums, Duvdev's intensely passionate vocals, Erez's nimble keyboards and an ambitious multimedia backdrop — ranks among the genre's most unpredictably joyous events.

"Legend of the Black Shawarma" track listing:

01. Poquito Mas
02. Sa'eed
03. End of the Road
04. Smashing the Opponent (feat. Jonathan Davis)
05. Can't Stop
06. Herbert the Pervert
07. Killing Time (feat. Perry Farrell)
08. Project 100
09. Franks
10. Slowly
11. Legend of the Black Shawarma

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