DATE: AUGUST 4, 1998
FROM: AMANDA CAGAN/ MITCH SCHNEIDER
HIDDEN GEMS: "What do you mean the CD starts at #13?" That's what fans all over the world will be saying when they check out the track listing on the CD version of KORN's new album, FOLLOW THE LEADER (due out August 18 on Immortal/Epic). Well, there must be a logical explanation, right? Of course there is. Here's how guitarist JAMES "MUNKY" SHAFFER recently explained this mysterious yet precedent-setting act: "No one's ever done it. It was just a wacky thing that we wanted to do." KORN decided to fill up tracks 1-12 of the CD with two-to-four seconds of blank space before landing at track 13 for the first song, "It's On!" Sometimes you gotta do a little digging to find the treasure…
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