• Its not really a person individually but four different bands brought together  to form one of the worlds best bands: Sexart, Ragtyme, L.A.P.D., and Creep.

• Perhaps it is shortened from the Mortuary that Jonathan worked at, Kern County. There seems to be a million different "KoRn" origin stories. But I do know why the logo is "rough" looking. The first album was about Jonathan Davis' childhood and lost innocence, so he wanted it to look like a child's hand writing (Hence the backwards R, and K in place of C.) Jon drew the very 1st KoRn logo with a crayon, and with his left hand (he's right handed).

• Jon does not have HIV, and it's only nickname (he uses this nickname as a message to the people that called him gay, and because he was hooked on freaky unprotected sex.) Jonathan signs his autograph with a smiley face, made from the letters HIV.

• Fieldy is half Italian and half Mexican.

• Caco is the guitar technician for Head and Munky. He is also responsible for the arranging the guitar effects on Follow the Leader.

• Danny "ham cam" Hamilton,  is the guy who takes a lot of the live photos and also the guy who recorded most of Who Then Now and Deuce Videos. He recorded most of Who Then Now at Ross Robinson's studio "Indigo Ranch studios". 

• Tony "loc" cruz is one of KoRn’’s body guards. He Mostly follows Jon but some times Munky too. He can be seen in the Deuce video.

• Kare Bear is the "minder" of KoRn. He is a personal assistant to the band.

• Sean Olson was the only jock that was nice to the guys from KoRn in the early days. They wrote a song called Sean Olson but they don't associate with him now.

• Jonathan played many instruments when he was younger, including bagpipes, drums as well. Jon even likes to play drums more then singing. He played in a lot of competitions and did very well. And being of Scottish decent, bagpipes seemed natural. When recording self-titled he wanted to see what it would sound like to play bagpipes with the other instruments (Shoots And Ladders). They liked it, and so every KoRn album has included them except Untouchables. An Untouchables  bag pipe track was recorded, but the band wanted to do something different.

• The guys have many influences but the most influential artists include Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rage Against the Machine, Faith No More, Cypress Hill, and the Beastie Boys.

• This recording was found on a tape lying around the studio. The guys liked it and so decided to put it on the end of the album.

• This is featured on the original Life is Peachy U.S. release (when the A.D.I.D.A.S. video was made they replaced it). Put it in your CD-Rom drive and you can play it. The Australasian version does not include any multimedia, however it does include a hidden track of Twist, with just Jonathan singing.

• This is a conversation between Fieldy and Cheech Marin, who also does lead vocals on the song Earache My Eye.     

• For some unknown reason the versions of All In The Family are different on the US version and the Australasian version (Clarkworld remix). The U.S. version has additional vocals at the beginning, and also various other lyrics in the song are different.

• Jonathan says "We put the white noise there because it was like at the end of the album, it's like when a TV station goes off the air, and makes that noise, that static noise." The secret song on Issues is actually blocked out by this noise. KoRn put the real secret Issues song on track 9, "Am i going crazy" Backwards on top of the actual song!
• If you play the beginning of Blind backwards it says "AAAAAAhhhhhggggg WE RULE!".

• KoRn use Ibanez K-7's. They are used to achieve the low A notes (deep "large" sound). Munky uses a Mesa/boogie amplifier while head prefers a Marshall.

• For some reason the band refuses to tell who it is. Munky says that, the shadow is holding a sling blade knife in his right hand. Though, Jon still says "It’’s a horse shoe!" when he was asked about it. 

• Apparently, Fieldy was flipping through Jonathans' Lyric book and said out loud "Man You Got Issues". Therefore KoRn's fourth album bears the name "Issues."

• "People think Daddy was written because my dad f**ked me up the ass, but that's not what the song's about. It wasn't about my dad or my mom. When I was a kid I was being abused by someone else and I went to my parents and told them about it. They thought I was lying and joking around, so they never did sh*t about it. They didn't believe it was happening to their son." - Jonathan Davis  When KoRn played daddy for the first time live, Jon broke down right in the middle of the song, and then band had to carry him out off the stage.

• During the first two albums, KoRn, and Life Is Peachy They wore Adidas as part of their own style, then Adidas noticed and started supplying them with freebies. One day Puma came along and offered them $500,0000 to were there's, and they did so they now mostly were Puma. Lately, Pony clothing has been worn more by the band.

• Elementree is the record label the KoRn own (a division of Warner Bros). They have signed 4 bands/artists so far, and they are: Orgy, Videodrone, Deadsy, and RBX (rapper). KoRn's managers are the ones that came up with the Elementree record idea.

• Kunt.

• Ice Cube, Tre, Nas, Mack 10, Q-tip, Xzbit, Method Man, and Red Man.

• No set amount, but they have a contract with immortal/epic for 2 more. Jon admits on Mtv's "KoRn Diary part 2" that he wants to keep on going for at least 10 years, just "a little grayer, and a little older."

• Jonathan likes to bite people (only the ones he loves). Jon some times sleep bites, and walks around in his sleep biting people. He once bit Fieldy and Fieldy punched Jon. In the Deuce video there is section where Jonathan talks about his vampirish leanings.

• This is the hidden track on "Life Is Peachy", it starts roughly 1 minute before the CD ends.

• Jonathan and Fieldy went to Highland High School, the same as Beavis and Butthead.

• Blind - KoRn
• Shoots and Ladders - KoRn
• Faget - (Video not shown) - KoRn
• No Place To Hide - Life Is Peachy
• Good God - (Video not shown) - Life Is Peachy
• A.D.I.D.A.S. - Life Is Peachy
• Got The Life - Follow The Leader
• Freak On a Leash - Follow The Leader
• Falling Away From Me - Issues
• Make Me Bad - Issues
• Somebody Someone - Issues
• Here To Stay - Untouchables
• Thoughtless - Untouchables
• Alone I Break - Untouchables
• Did My Time - Take A Look In The Mirror
• Right Now - Take A Look In The Mirror
• Ya'll Want a Single - Take A Look In The Mirror

• TAKE A LOOK IN THE MIRROR: November 21, 2003
• UNTOUCHABLES: June 11, 2002
• ISSUES: November 16, 1999
• FOLLOW THE LEADER: August 18, 1998
• LIFE IS PEACHY: October 15, 1996
• KORN: October 11, 1994

• WHO THEN NOW?: February 18, 1997*
  *According to billboard magazine, is the 10th best selling music video.
• DEUCE: June 11, 2002
• KORN LIVE: November 22, 2002

• TAKE A LOOK IN THE MIRROR: Platinum
• UNTOUCHABLES: Platinum
• ISSUES: Triple Platinum
• FOLLOW THE LEADER: Triple Platinum
• LIFE IS PEACHY: Double Platinum
• KORN: Double Platinum
• WHO THEN NOW? (home video): Platinum

• Best Rock Video
• Best Editing in a Video (Haines Hall/Michael Sachs)

• Video of the Year
• Breakthrough Video
• Viewer's Choice
• Best Direction in a Video (Jonathan Dayton/Valerie Faris/Todd McFarlane/Graham Morris)
• Best Special Effects in a Video (Greg Strause/Colin Strause/Matt Beck/Edson Williams)
• Best Art Direction in a Video (K.K. Barrett/Todd McFarlane/Terry Fitzgerald/Graham Morris)
• Best Cinematography in a Video (Dir. of Photography: Julian Whatley)

• Best International Video ("Freak On A Leash")

• Best Clip of the Year/Hard Rock ("Freak On A Leash")

• Best Band of the Millennium

• Best Artist
• Best Album
• Best Album Cover Art
• Best Live Act
• Best Radio Single ("Got The Life")
• Best Album of the ‘‘90s (KORN)
• #2 Best Concert Event ("The Family Values" tour)
• #2 Best Video ("Got The Life") #3 Brightest Hope for 1999

• "Best Hard-Rock Band"

• "Best Hard-Rock Band"
• "Best Tour"

• "Favorite Album"

• #1 Album
• #1 Band

• Favorite Band
• Favorite Album: FOLLOW THE LEADER

• Best Album of 1998: FOLLOW THE LEADER

• ISSUES debuted on Billboard's "Top 200 Albums" chart at #1, selling over 575,000 copies in its first week.
• Rolling Stone/Best Alternative Albums of the ‘‘90s: "FOLLOW THE LEADER/August 1998...Issued in a year when alternative rock was pushing up the daisies, commercially and creatively, KoRn put new muscle into the old dog and channeled their disgust with the state of the nation--and the generation doomed to inherit it--into booming, articulate violence." (May 13, 1999)
•  FOLLOW THE LEADER debuted on Billboard's "Top 200 Albums" chart at #1, having sold over 268,000 copies its first week out.
•  FOLLOW THE LEADER debuted at the #1 slot in Canada, New Zealand and Australia; #4 in Finland; #5 in France, the U.K. and Norway; #8 in Japan; #10 in Holland; #12 in Germany; and it registered the highest debut on the Pan European "Music & Media" chart (at #6).
• THE FAMILY VALUES CD and home video--both featuring KORN--are released March 30, 1999.
• THE FAMILY VALUES CD debuted on Billboard's "Top 200 Albums" chart at #7 (selling over 122,000 its first week out)--April 9 issue.  

• 1. Life Is Peachy was originally Life Is Pee-Chee.
  2. KoRn is from Bakersfield, California.
  3. Daddy has only been played twice (intro).
  4. The art work on Follow The Leader was done by Todd McFarlane.
  5. There was a video made for Good God and Faget, they were never released.
  6. Jonathan Davis dated a adult movie star.
  7. The band owns there own record label entitled "Elementree".
  8. Jonathan David used to be an assistant Mortuist.
  9. KoRn have help sign 5 bands. Limp Bizkit, Orgy, Videodrone, Deadsy, and RBX.
  10. Staind Have Covered "Need To" for KoRn.
  11. David Silveria has injured himself on 2 separate occasions. Rock Is Dead, and Sick and Twisted.
  12. Fred Durst Directed Falling Away From Me.
  13. KoRn is on roughly 100's of  CDs and Videos.
  14. KoRn is "Bootlegged" an average of 3 times a show. CD was certified gold by the R.I.A.A. in June 1999. The video was certified platinum.

• Orgy was the first band signed to KoRn's Elementree Records. The album has been certified platinum.

• FIELDY produced Videodrone's 1999 self-titled debut on Elementree/Reprise.

• LIFE IS PEACHY debuted at #3 on Billboard's "Top 200 Albums" chart having SoundScanned over 106,000 copies in its first week of release

• KORN and LIFE IS PEACHY each earned Grammy nominations for "Best Metal Performance": "Shoots & Ladders" from KORN and "No Place To Hide" from LIFE IS PEACHY.

• Lollapalooza: Performed 14 out of 27 dates; last date was July 20, 1997 in Columbus, Ohio due to Munky's bout with Viral Meningitis.

• "The Family Values" tour: The irreverently titled "Family Values" tour--the brain-child of KORN, their management company The Firm (led by partners Jeff Kwatinetz and Michael Green) and John Scher at Metropolitan Entertainment Group--launched September 22, 1998 with KORN headlining the bill with Rammstein, Ice Cube, Limp Bizkit and Orgy. Concluded Halloween, 1998.

• "KORN Kampaign ‘‘98": KORN launched a whirlwind political campaign-style tour to promote the release of FOLLOW THE LEADER. It brought the guys all over North America to spread the news of their "Family Values" platform to hordes of fans at special "fan conferences" that were organized at every stop along the tour route. Lasted from August 17 in Los Angeles through September 1 in Phoenix. KORN chartered a jet, which took them to record stores in such cities as Riverside (CA), San Francisco, Seattle, Minneapolis, Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, Boston, New York City, Toronto, Atlanta, and Dallas. They talked to fans at every stop, answered questions during the special "fan conferences" and signed autographs. Jim Rose hosted the entire "Kampaign" tour. Celebrities at various stops included Ice Cube and Todd McFarlane.

• Woodstock ‘‘99: Performed an explosive, career-defining set July 23, 1999 at the weekend event in New York. (Jonathan claims this was the highlight of his career!)

• WWW.KORN.COM (the band's official website) re-launched August 1, 1998 and currently plays host to over 200,000 fans on the official e-mail list, and over 75,000 fans visit the website every week. It's all these fans who have helped spawn one of the largest Internet fan bases and largest number of fan-created "unofficial" websites on the ‘‘Net. The website was completely re-vamped to include a "KORN News" section, that is constantly updated with the latest on what's happening with KORN, new photos of the band, access to a store where fans could buy the latest KORN merchandise, and more.

• WWW.KORN.COM is also the new official site of "KORN-TV," the band's Internet network. The current "KORN-TV" website--found at www.korntv.com--is still available on the Internet for an infinite amount of time and features re-runs of the first season of "KoRn's After-School Special."

• "KoRn's After-School Special 1998" aired every Thursday at 4:30-5:30 PM PT from March 5 - April 16 (six weeks). The weekly program gave thousands of fans around the globe a personal tour of the world of KORN while recording FOLLOW THE LEADER in the studio in Los Angeles. KoRn’s warped vision of a variety show (KoRn Tc) would not have been complete without a regular who’s who of porn stars and smut peddlers. "F**k it, I like porn," Jonathan admitted. "I don’t give a f**k. I have a huge-ass collection, ‘bout a hundred movies. I love f**kin’ sex. I love it, I love it, I love it. I like raunchy porn—the nastier, the better."
• Some of the special celebrity hosts and guests included members of 311, Limp Bizkit, Deftones, Sugar Ray, the Pharcyde and Orgy (who are signed to KoRn's label, Elementree Records); porn stars Ron Jeremy, Shane, and Randy Rage. Two particular highlights of the series were the separate appearances by two of the leaders in the dominatrix world: Dita and Dominic.
• After witnessing the wanton goings-on KoRn TV on the After-School Specials, Epic Records executives had a fit. Fornicators, pornographers, and Adam Carolla, oh my…This was no laughing matter. Thoughts of lawsuits and Mothers Against KoRn unions had the label in panic. Unfortunately for Epic, their frantic pleas fell on deaf ears. All appeals to the musicians’ better judgment were greeted by the same response: "Don’t tell us what to do."

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