Completely different albums signify totally different chapters for musicians, and a few would like to depart the older ones previously. Such is the case with Jonathan Davis, who’s opened as much as Steel Hammer concerning the one Korn tune he by no means needs to play once more.
“Daddy.”
The tune serves because the closing monitor on Korn’s 1994 self-titled debut file, and is the longest, clocking in at over 9 minutes. A lot of the subject material on Korn was disturbing, however “Daddy” was written from the attitude of a kid who’d been sexually abused. It was based mostly on Davis’ personal harrowing expertise as a toddler, whose mother and father did not imagine him when he tried to inform them what had occurred.
Setlist.fm notes that Korn have solely performed “Daddy” 35 instances all through their 19 years of performing. After taking part in it as soon as in 1993 and once more in 1995, the band did not add the tune to their setlist once more till 2015, which was their twentieth anniversary tour. Then, it was shelved once more.
“I felt like I robbed the world of doing that stay for therefore lengthy,” Davis advised Steel Hammer. “I felt like I owed it to our followers that have been hardcore sufficient to come back and see us on the twentieth anniversary of that album, however I don’t wanna do it once more.
“Going out and touring that file, I spotted how darkish it’s – it’s some miserable shit. As we bought into Observe The Chief, it grew to become extra about groove. The emotion was there, however it wasn’t that specific darkness we captured on that first file.”
The thirtieth anniversary of Korn is true across the nook, nonetheless, the frontman is not too eager on commemorating the anniversary of that tune.
“I don’t assume I wanna undergo that once more,” he affirmed. “It was tough, and I believe I used to be proving to myself that I might do it too.”
Just a few months in the past, Ross Robinson, who produced Korn’s debut, recalled how he satisfied Davis to even file “Daddy” within the studio in any respect.
“I simply went as much as him and held his arms, seemed straight in his eyes and stated, ‘You might want to do it,’ and he goes, ‘I do know,’ and that was it. And I nonetheless, to today, haven’t been in a position to get that deep of a efficiency from anyone. His coronary heart was exploding, and I believe we made musical historical past,” the producer asserted throughout one other interview with Steel Hammer.
