- This is very intense.
- Oh, god. I'm getting a headache.
♪ (ragtime intro) ♪
♪ (heavy metal music) ♪
- I like that riff.
- (Jonathan) Are you ready?!
- I don't have a clue who this is!
- Is this Korn?
- ♪ This place inside my mind, a place I like to hide ♪
- Funny, I can understand what he's saying.
- ♪ What if I should die? ♪ - We're about to die?
- Doesn't really ring my bell.
- I actually have seen these guys on some show.
I don't know their names.
- ♪ I'm so blind ♪ - Oh, so angst-filled.
- I like craziness in the audience, though.
- Awesome.
- Looks like he's having some kind of psychedelic fit.
- ♪ How deep can I go? ♪
- I've never ever been into heavy metal.
- It's always a little hard for me to understand what they're saying.
- (exclaiming) It's noise!
- I like the energy. I like the rawness of it.
- I got into all of this from Benny and Rafi.
They're playing their guts out, and they're singing their guts out.
It's not like pop music, where you have great singers,
but, you know, it's all artificial music.
♪ (heavy metal music) ♪
- ♪ Honestly, somehow... ♪ - God, I love it.
- ♪ ...that I'm dreaming of ♪ - They have some good voices.
- ♪ It doesn't bother me ♪ - (laughs)
- ♪ ...your [bleep] name ♪ ♪ So what? ♪
♪ Let's [bleep]... ♪ - What is he saying? (chuckles)
- ♪ All day I dream about... ♪ - Oh, so dark!
- ♪ All day I... ♪ - Don't get it.
- ♪ ...dream about... ♪ - That's awful.
- This is very intense. - So violent.
- ♪ Since you saw me, I dream about sex ♪
- I don't mind horror movies, but I kind of object
to... whatever that was.
- I like it. Reminds me of my youth.
- I find the content offensive. And yet, I'm sure
some heavy metal people just go crazy over that.
- ♪ Something takes a part of me ♪
- Oh good gravy.
- ♪ A cheap [bleep] for me to lay ♪
- I'd so much rather have this than rap.
- ♪ Feeling like a freak on a leash ♪
- Yes, they like to that, comment on the culture.
- ♪ Feeling like a freak on a leash ♪
- Oh, nice.
- I don't like that.
- ♪ (singing gibberish) ♪ - See, I like that.
- It's like code. Code language. (laughs)
- (scoffs) This is very foreign to me.
- The world's not all a birthday party.
Guess what? And we don't do anything about it.
(splat) (bell dings)
♪ (heavy metal music) ♪
- ♪ Hey, I'm feeling tired ♪
- I guess, A, you can just say I'm not a fan of modern music.
- ♪ Beating me down ♪ - It kind of makes
your blood pressure go up.
- ♪ Down, down ♪ - Ah, that's just wicked.
- I can't watch it.
- That's abrasive and abusive!
Good heavens.
- That's a little disturbing.
- A lot of guts to do this one.
- I...
I don't know what to say. I think it's awful.
It comes close to satanic.
- There's so much pain in that video,
but you know there's so much pain in the world.
Who sings about it except metal bands?
♪ (heavy metal music) ♪
- ♪ That's right ♪
- This is good. I like this.
- Oh my god.
- ♪ Wait ♪ - Oh!
- ♪ ...coming undone ♪ ♪ Irate ♪
♪ I'm coming undone ♪ - I like headbanging!
- Probably not a good idea to headbang, though,
now at my age.
- ♪ I'm coming undone ♪ ♪ What looks... ♪
- "I'm coming undone." Yeah, that's kind of
what it sounds like. (chuckles)
- ♪ And soon I anticipate ♪ - I just don't understand it.
- ♪ What looks so strong, so... ♪ - Yup. That one was good.
- To be able to take those powerful lyrics,
here, like, everything's breaking apart
and everybody-- you notice in the video,
it shot to everybody playing 'cause of the messages.
It's just not the frontman. It's us.
- ♪ And there's the faceless cries ♪
♪ That twist my every dream ♪
♪ And almost every night ♪
♪ I hear the... ♪ - Okay.
- ♪ Why are we going on this way? ♪ - I like that Rastafarian hair look.
- ♪ So why did the path have to lead this way? ♪
♪ Black is the soul that's led astray ♪
- "Black is the soul that is led astray." Poetry.
- ♪ ...never follow ♪ - Oh, god. I'm getting a headache.
- ♪ I'm out of time ♪ ♪ I'm slowly dying... ♪
- I just don't like the brutality of it.
- ♪ Just give me back my life ♪
- Give me back my doll?
- I'm really exhausted. This group tires me out.
- Well, I liked that. Who is that?
- So, we do have another video for you in a moment.
- (sarcastically) Oh, boy. I'm so excited.
- (FBE) Those were all songs by the band Korn.
- Korn? Like Corn Flakes?
- Oy. They're corny enough.
- Haven't heard Korn, and I really like them.
- (FBE) Korn is still performing, and four of their albums
went multi-platinum. - Wow.
Obviously, a different generation is loving it.
- (FBE) The band was also known for having crazy mosh pits.
So, we have a little of that to show you now.
- Mosh pits?
- Mosh? Absolutely don't know what the hell it is.
- They're letting out pain, and they're letting out angst.
At the same time, it's a safe environment.
I had to restrain myself from going into the mosh pit,
'cause I was too old.
- (crowd yelling in unison) - Whoa.
- Wow. - Is this the mosh pit?
- Oh my goodness. This is what their crowds look like?
- Oh, that's fabulous. I wouldn't go in it myself.
I'd be too scared. But I get it.
- I've never seen a pit that big.
- Holy mackerel! Yeah. That's crazy.
- It's like... tribal dancing.
- Are they naked?
- Oh. Yeah. That was pretty insane.
- If I hadn't known it was a music video,
I would've thought it was a riot.
- Times have changed, because when I used
to go to concerts, concerts where you went
to a music hall and you sat and you listened,
you tapped your feet, you clapped your hands.
But you didn't get up there and go crazy like these kids.
- You gotta let out your angst. It's better there
than somewhere else on the street.
- (FBE) So, Korn was known for performing in a subgenre of metal
often referred to as nu, as in N-U, metal.
- (snickers) What? Three letters was too many?
- (FBE) Korn, as a band, was known for bringing
their specific genre of metal into the mainstream
in the late '90s and early 2000s,
having top hits and being on the charts
alongside pop artists and boy bands on TRL.
- I'm curious to know how they were able
to bring it into the mainstream, 'cause the metal
all sounds the same to me.
- (FBE) This actually caused a rift with some hardcore nu metal fans
who resented them for their success
and felt they aren't as good or as hard as others in their genre.
- Oh, there's always jealousy.
- Just like when Bob Dylan started playing an electric guitar
instead of an acoustic, people just got all [bleep] about it.
- (FBE) So, with what you've seen in music over the decades,
what do you think it was about this group
that allowed them to achieve mainstream success
compared to others that play similar types of music?
- I don't know how heavy metal got successful to begin with.
- To me, everything sounds the same. It's either loud, loud, or loudest.
- They definitely had an energy going, and it had to be that energy
that people were picking up on.
- They've all got the great moves. They've got the great stuff.
They don't look like they're out of their mind on drugs,
you know, which, like the Sex Pistols were
or Black Flag were. They were just loaded all the time.
- It's not as dark. It's a little easier,
because, you know, it's not like standing
and listening to the late Dimebag in Pantera.
- (FBE) So, while Korn was able to achieve mainstream success
in the past, there aren't really many bands
making this type of music in this day and age
that are having the sort of success that Korn had.
Metal bands really don't chart alongside pop and hip-hop
like some did back in the earlier part of Korn's career.
- Well, I would consider that a good sign, success.
- That's true. And you're looking at it
from success. Metal is strong everywhere.
- I'm 71. I'm deep into metal.
- (FBE) So, from your perspective, having seen many genres
come and go, why do you think
this is a genre that we don't see as much
in the mainstream anymore?
- I have no answer to that one. Give me a good old fashioned waltz.
- All the hard stuff has sort of melted off.
Metal, melted? Ha, ha!
- There was a discomfort about what was gonna happen
when the year 2000 came. It was an angst-filled time,
so angst-filled music was a popular thing.
- Each generation thinks, you know, hey, you guys are old.
We got this new stuff. I remember my mom
talking about Elvis Presley. And (laughs)...
And rock and roll, that it'll be the ruin
of the next generation. Well, it's just gotten further
and I think, in this case, darker.
- It's always changing and evolving,
because people change and evolve over time.
The '40s came and it was the big band era.
And then the '50s, and it was rock and roll.
- (FBE) So finally, Korn is still making new music,
having released a new album in 2016 and a new music video in 2017,
but they haven't sold a platinum album since 2005.
So, do you think Korn or other bands
playing harder music can achieve their previous level of success,
or do you think that their popular has peaked?
- It's probably peaked for them. But I think there'll be another band
like that that will come up for another young generation
of metalheads. - Anything's possible in this world.
Nothing surprises me anymore.
- When rap dies out, then maybe there'll be a chance
for a comeback. - What are we on this business
with the money and the success? That's not how you measure your life.
It's great if it comes. I don't think that's what drives them.
What'll stop them is they just don't wanna play anymore.
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- Bye, guys. - Hey, what's up, guys?
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