KORN: New Album To Feature Guest Appearance By Rapper THE GAME

April 15, 2005

Producer Dallas Austin (MADONNA, TLC, GWEN STEFANI, PINK, JANET JACKSON, BOYZ II MEN) has told MTV.com that his collaboration with KORN, which should see release either later this year or early next, will hold at least a few surprises for the band's trusty fans — including one of hip-hop's hardest on guest vocals.

"We've actually done a song that THE GAME will be rapping on," Austin revealed. THE GAME will join KORN in the studio next month to lay down his rhymes. Five tracks have been recorded so far, Austin said, and the remainder of the album's material has been written, just not recorded.

"They looked at everything they have done and said, 'What else can we do now?' " said Austin, who got a personal call from frontman Jonathan Davis to pitch him the production gig. The band wanted to try something different with this record and felt Dallas was the perfect person to help them realize that goal.

"In an era where it's really hard to play rock and roll — especially hip-hop rock, which they kind of pioneered, but then everything got oversaturated — Jonathan thought, 'How can we rekindle it?' " Austin said.

"The stuff you're going to hear from us, it's just great rock stuff — really heavy," Austin explained. "As a producer, I don't come in and bring my thing. I come and work with what's there. I just try making whatever I work with as vivid as possible for what we're doing. Some of the stuff, it's really dark. You'll hear beats underneath it, but it's still really guitar-heavy. I didn't bring them into my world — I just produced KORN. I think [people will] be surprised to hear what we did."

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