The Path of Totality
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December 2, 2011 |
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11 13 (Deluxe Edition) |
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37:51 44:35 (Deluxe Edition) |
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Jonathan Davis, Jim Monti, Skrillex , Kill the Noise , Noisia , Feed Me , 12th Planet , Flinch, Datsik , Downlink, Excision |
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The Path of Totality ( English for: "The path of the whole") is the tenth studio album by the US Nu-Metal band Korn . It was released on December 2, 2011. The album was produced by nine dubstep artists and differs from the previous style of the band.
Emergence
The first single Get Up! , a cooperation with the dubstep producer Skrillex , was released on April 14, 2011 and was only available as a download. By September 2011, over 150,000 downloads had been sold. The song was first performed after Jonathan and Munky went to Skrillex on stage in the dance tent at the Coachella Festival and played the song there - unannounced. Work on the tenth album began in March 2010. The album should be a mix of metal , dance and dubstep elements from the start. The music producers involved are Skrillex, Kill the Noise , Noisia , Feed Me , 12th Planet , Flinch, Datsik , Downlink and Excision . Korn announced the title The Path of Totality on August 27, 2011 and December 2, 2011 as the release date for the new album. The album previously ran under the working title X as an allusion to the fact that the album is the tenth in Korn's career. In addition to the standard version of the album, with eleven songs, a deluxe edition was also released, which includes the two bonus tracks Fuels The Comedy and Tension . There is also a bonus DVD entitled “The Encounter”. The DVD shows a concert by the band in the middle of a crop circle at Korn's home in Bakersfield, California. So far, the show has only been shown in abridged form on television and online. In addition to Get Up! were released as singles Narcisstic Cannibal , Way Too Far and Chaos Lives In Everything . Music videos were also produced for all singles.
Track list
All lyrics were written by Jonathan Davis.
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| 1 | Chaos Lives in Everything | 3:47 | Skrillex |
| 2 | Kill Mercy Within | 3:35 | Noisia |
| 3 | My Wall | 2:55 | Excision |
| 4th | Narcissistic Cannibal | 3:10 | Skrillex & Kill the Noise |
| 5 | Illuminati | 3:16 | Excision & Downlink |
| 6th | Burn the obedient | 2:38 | Noisia |
| 7th | Sanctuary | 3:24 | Downlink |
| 8th | let's go | 2:40 | Noisia |
| 9 | Get up! | 3:42 | Skrillex |
| 10 | Way Too Far | 3:49 | 12th Planet & Flinch |
| 11 | Bleeding out | 4:49 | Feed me |
| 12 | Fuels the Comedy (bonus track) | 2:49 | Kill the noise |
| 13 | Tension (bonus track) | 3:56 | Excision, Datsik & Downlink |
reception
Metal Hammer's Sebastian Kessler called The Path of Totality an album with ups and downs. He praised the band's willingness to experiment and their striving for something different. He awarded five out of seven possible points. Simon Langemann from laut.de rated the experiment as unsuccessful and attested the album to be unimaginative. He awarded two stars out of five. Ronny Bittner from Rock Hard also said that the level of the pre-single Get Up! could not quite be kept to album length. He missed the reef power and brutality typical of Korn. He awarded seven out of ten possible points.
Chart placements
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DE28 (8 weeks) DE |
AT24 (6 weeks) AT |
CH32 (3 weeks) CH |
UK68 (1 week) UK |
US10 (21 weeks) US |
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tour
| Presentation album | The Path of Totality |
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| Beginning of the tour | November 3, 2011 in Boston |
| End of the tour | November 30, 2012 in Fort Lauderdale |
| Total concerts (by continent) |
* 54 in North America |
| Concerts in total | 87 |
The Path of Totality Tour started already on 3 November 2011 in the US. In the end, it consisted of six sections. Three legs in North America, two in Europe and one in Asia. Special features of the presented set lists were that the songs were arranged chronologically. First songs from the first two studio albums Korn and Life Is Peachy , as well as rarities that did not make it onto these albums, such as Proud , who had never tried live before, were played. This was followed by songs from the new album The Path of Totality , then the biggest hits and finally an encore. Guest musicians were Elijah Blue Allman , who performed the song Somebody Someone with the band at a concert in Oberhausen . When the band played at the Carolina Rebellion Festival on May 5th, they performed the song Blind with original guitarist Brian Welch . It was the first joint appearance with the band after he left in 2005. During the second European leg, bassist Fieldy dropped out briefly to be with his pregnant wife. At the following concerts he was represented by Ryan Martinie , who was known for his activities at Mudvayne . At another concert in Germany, in Püttlingen, the German comedian Bülent Ceylan was brought on stage for the performance of Got the Life . He had previously invited the band to his show , where they performed the song Get Up! performed with him as a bass player. In addition, some concerts were opened by the participating Dupstep artists. They often performed The Path of Totality bonus tracks Tension and Fuels the Comedy accompanied by singer Jonathan Davis .
Structure of the setlist
Intro / Tape: Serenity (song by Jonathan Davis aka dubstep artist JDevil) , Sanctuary (beginning)
Older songs and rare songs: Predictable, Divine, Lies, Helmet in the Bush, No Place to Hide, Good God, Proud
Songs from The Path of Totality: Chaos Lives in Everything, Kill Mercy Within, My Wall, Narcisstic Cannibal, Illuminati, Let's Go, Get Up !, Way Too Far
Greatest Hits: Freak on a Leash , Falling Away From Me, Somebody Someone, Here To Stay, Did My Time, Oildale (Leave Me Alone), Another Brick in the Wall (Original by Pink Floyd )
Encore: Medley from Shoots and Ladders and One , Got the Life, Blind
Live at the Hollywood Palladium
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| Label (s) | AFM Records | |||
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CD, DVD, Blu-ray |
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15th |
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75 min. |
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Bary Summers, Peter Katsis, Chuck Haifley |
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Hollywood Palladium , Hollywood , California on December 6, 2011 |
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Live at the Hollywood Palladium is a live album that is available on CD and DVD or as CD and Blu-ray Disc in one and was released on September 2nd, 2012. It shows the performance at the said location on the day The Path of Totality was released on December 6, 2011. For this show, the band invited some dubstep and electro artists who had worked on the album and performed their songs with them. You can also see the premiere of Illuminati and Chaos Lives in Everything . In addition to the concert, the album contains interviews with the band members including live keyboardist Zac Baird.
Setlist
- Get up! (with Skrillex as guitarist)
- Kill Mercy Within
- Illuminati (With Excision and Downlink)
- Chaos Lives in Everything
- My Wall (With Excision)
- Way Too Far (With 12th Planet and Flinch)
- Narcissistic Cannibal (With Skrillex as guitarist and Kill the Noise)
- Here to stay
- Freak on a leash
- Falling Away From Me
- Predictable
- Another Brick in the Wall (Pink Floyd cover version)
- Shoots and Ladders / One
- Got the life
- Blind
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c roadrunnerrecords.de
- ↑ a b kornworld.de ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ metal-hammer.de
- ↑ laut.de
- ↑ rockhard.de
- ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
