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Jonathan Davis - vocals
Brian Welch - guitar
James Shaffer - guitar
Fieldy - bass
David - Drums
All five members of KoRn grew up in Bakersfield, Carlifornia. Davis, Fieldy and Munky began jamming together in their mid-teens and formed the band LAPD. Soon they added the guitarist Brian "Head" to fill out their sound. 1993, Creep (the bands name) lived in L.A but during a trip back to Bakersfield James and Brian walked into a bar where the local band Sex Art(Jonathan as lead signer) were playing and they paid big attention too him and later called him up and asked him to join their band. Jonathan accepted and the band got the name "KoRn". Before he joined the band had a much happier sound but as he joined the style changed quite a bit. People regarded Jon as different in high school and maybe he was to them. His difficulties with a unpopular youth was a subject he would draw heavily when composing lyrics for KoRn. With Jon aboard, Korn hired a manager and began honing its sound. Eventually, the band recorded a demo tape, which it shopped to several record companies. Offers came from Atlantic and RCA, but executives at the tiny Immortal label (a division of Epic) won the band over with their enthusiasm. With a small advance, Korn set about recording a full-length album at Indigo Ranch Studios, an all-analog facility located in a picturesque setting in Malibu Hills. The finished CD-titled simply Korn-was released in October of 1994. Tough it's sales at first was only moderate but after endless touring it later sold about 1000 000 copies and making this time even more joyous for Jon as he got his son (Nathan) in October 1995. Releasing their second album "Life is Peachy" Jon dove deeper into the psychological tribulations of his youth. As with their first album KoRn planned touring like hell but after compleating less than half their planned tour Shaffer took ill with a case of viral meningitis and they were forced to end the tour. More than a year would pass before the band were standing on the stage again. A scheduled UK Ozzfest appearance in the summer of 1998 was scuttled by the impending birth of Welch's first child. While working on their third album "Follow the Leader" KoRn made headlines as high school student was suspended from school because of wearing a T-shirt with KoRn's logo. "Follow the Leader" was released in Aug 98 to largely favorable reviews. Later in the year, Korn was set to launch its "Family Values" tour, the lineup of which includes kindred spirits Limp Bizkit, Germany's Rammstein, and Orgy. (Orgy, incidentally, is the first signee to Korn's Elementree Records, a label the band created recently in affiliation with Reprise.)