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Korn Boycott BP

• 11th Jun 2010

Motivated by the BP disaster in the US and its devastating effects, KORN have taken a stand by launching a boycott against using the company’s petrol while on tour this summer. The band has formally announced that it will not be fuelling any of its tour vehicles with BP products and is strongly encouraging other touring artists to do the same.

“The daily images are hard to watch,” says KORN frontman Jonathan Davis. “We need to do our part to let BP know there are consequences for causing something like this. We want to send a message to corporations like BP so that they will take more preventative measures in the future. The more costly their punishment, the more money they will spend to make sure disasters like this don’t happen again. It’s plain and simple capitalism.”

KORN’s new album artwork, photography and stage set imagery reference the band’s hometown area near Bakersfield, CA and its bleak landscape littered with oil rigs. The video for first single, ‘Oildale (Leave Me Alone)’ reveals a poverty-stricken locale situated among the oil rich fields and tells a story of a young boy’s desire to escape. The video story echoes the band’s own struggle out of Bakersfield. Davis adds, “It was one thing for us to grow up near such poverty, but the situation in the Gulf takes things to a whole new level where people’s lives and livelihoods are affected forever.”

KORN, who have sold more than 30 million records worldwide, spend this summer headlining the third annual Rock Star Energy Drink Mayhem Festival playing 14,000 to 30,000 seat amphitheaters. “We urge the other acts on Mayhem and anyone on tour this year to be with us on this,” Davis also said.

Korn’s new album, ‘Korn III – Remember Who You Are’, is released on 12th July. The album was produced by Ross Robinson, who also produced their incendiary and much-lauded debut. The title is a reference to the band’s past and a nod to their roots. ‘Oildale (Leave Me Alone)’ hits stores a week prior on 4th July.