Korn: Life in the Pit [Paperback]

Leah Furman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 5, 2000

In the past eight-years, the face of popular culture has changed radically and with it, the music that will define the decade. Gone are the pop saturated songs of the 70's and 80's. Today's sound is a fusion of grunge, hip-hop, metal, hardcore and funk. Disparate sounds that together create something thoroughly modern and unlike anything we've heard before. No band embodies this musical melting pot more than Korn. With their frantic, no-holds-barred image and sound, Korn has jumped musical boundaries to be both Billboard chart toppers and a band with a loyal, obsessive following.

--Their debut album, "Korn" went platinum and has sold millions
--"Life is Peachy" debuted at number three on the Billboard charts
--Korn's latest album, "Follow the Leader" has sold over two million copies and remained on the Billboard charts for over twenty-eight weeks.

Elina Furman's in-depth look at the band's meager beginings to their breakthrough success with "Follow the Leader," their current multi-platinum album is a fan's ultimate guide.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

While many rock biographies capitalize on harrowing tales of backstage chemical dependencies, Furman, the author of numerous biographies of teen pop stars, balks at the binges and instead offers a surprising glimpse of Korn as aggressive yet lovesick band mates who use their commercial success in the rap-metal realm to sustain comfortable family lives--a view that the National Organization for Women and Mothers Against Korn would find surprising. However, die-hard devotees of the Bakersfield, CA, quintet will be hard pressed to find any new or revealing information about their favorite kernel (Korn band member) in this scant work. Much of Korn's history has already been discussed in magazine interviews and posted on countless fan web sites. Yet with casual listeners greatly outnumbering Korn disciples, this would fit well into any public library where adolescents roam the shelves in search of something contemporary.
-Robert Morast, Halliday, ND
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist

Here they are again: the black T-shirts, the sinister sneers. This time, they are the "diabolical blend of schizoid seven-string guitars, maniacal forked-tongue vocals, bludgeoning bass and pummeling drums" known as Korn, whose concerts are "an homage to 'roid rage," says Furman, that typically "end in a heap of sweltering bodies--spent from mirroring Korn's death-defying onstage antics." Death-defying? Well, the lads do owe a certain debt to Iggy Pop, though their antics don't really seem to be in quite the same league as the erstwhile Stooges leader's, let alone those of shock rockers like G. G. Allin or Wayne County. But Korn's is the sound of sullen youth, Y2K style, a rap and heavy metal fusion that youngsters who are not all thinking vile and malevolent thoughts respond to; and Furman's book, though fawning at times, tells the band's story well. Acquire it quick, though, before the next wave hits, and then, perhaps, schedule a staff retreat to go moshing the next time Korn komes to town. Mike Tribby
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Product Details

• Paperback: 186 pages
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin; First Edition edition (May 5, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312253966
• ISBN-13: 978-0312253967
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,492,517 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One Hell of a Band Get's one Hell of a Book, August 1, 2000

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Nick (Littleton, CO USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Korn: Life in the Pit (Paperback)

This book is very imformative about Korn and it's members, from the early years of LADP, and SexArt, all the way up to the latest of them all, Issues. I highly recommend this book to the folks wanting to know where Korn is really comming from. Find out the pain Jonathon went through, and how much they like Jager. The informative abstracts from interviews make it more of a personal acount on the boys part, instead of the writer's. I hope every Korn fan will buy this book, it is worth every cent you pay. You also get some awsome pictures I've never seen of these dudes. But the real question is: "R U Ready"?

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars amazing! couldn't find half the stuff in there anywhere else, July 22, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Korn: Life in the Pit (Paperback)

if you're a huge KoRn fan like i am get this book! i've read everything about them that's ever been put on the web and at least half the info in the book you can't get anywhere else. a lot of old interviews and stuff from their personal lives. details about LAPD and sexart up to issues! this book is awesome! very very informative! buy it today! you won't regret it!

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars KoRn's life story!!!!!!, August 14, 2000

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"mc_skammer" (Roswell, NM) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Korn: Life in the Pit (Paperback)

Korns life story on a book!!!!! Ive always loved KoRn and this book should be in every KoRn fan alive! The writing could have been better but its great when you put it all together. A must buy.