Anyone remember when Korn was good? Jonathan Davis stopped doing drugs and it all went downhill from there.

They should have done a remake of purple haze.

@JoeyOliver:

never happened...

Betcha it wont sound any different than, oh, all their songs.

Sweeet!! Every time a band has ever written a song for a game has always turned out amazing!!

How can you not think this will be great? Davis himself thinks the game is 'the shit!', (with one exclamation mark!) and his song 'really rocked it!! (with two--count them!--TWO!--exclamation points) All it needs is a video with Tawny Kitaen and this will totally, TOTALLY rock!!!

Why didn't they just contact Dream Theater, or Buckethead? It'd not only be cheaper, but they'd probably make a song people would buy the game to listen to.

Oh yay, Ubi-Soft Trax, just like EA and 2K ... excuse me while I puke.

@Ashurahori:

Or the gaming inspired Dragonforce.

But I agree with Dream Theater!

I can't say I'm really excited about this. Sounds like a lot of PR BS IYKWIM.

Who knows. Maybe it'll come out decent. Then again I'm only saying that because they're one of my favorite bands. Maybe it'll just be a mess that makes you wanna shoot everything you see.

I do miss Old Korn though.

I like that he used a lot of exclamation points.

Ugh. Someone wake me when publishers stop trying to treat every game as just another cross-marketing component.

I gave up on mainstream music over a decade ago and haven't looked back. I sure as hell don't want to pay $60 for a game that's going to subject me to it.

The game isn't done.. how can it be the shit?

@ShinyNew:
i see wut u did thar

That was the most stilted and fake-sounding marketing statement from a popular figure I've ever heard.

Seriously. Phil Harrison, Reggie, whoever the hell represents MS these days, they can't contrive bullshit of that caliber. If they tried to say "Haze is the Shit!" he'd probably start laughing at how stupid it sounds.

I'd like to see game designers start to make CDs not based off video games. Miyamoto screaming death metal anyone?

Really now?

Because my count, KoRn hasn't made an original song since 1994.

Couldn't be any worse than the Gears of War song that Iron Maiden wrote.

@Crecente:
it depends on whether the song sucks or not

Every Korn song sucks.

Anything from Korn starting with Issues has been a total pile of shit. I never bought another music album again after that and quickly introduced myself to Napster.

I'm trying to imagine Jonathan Davis sounding sincere in this quote, but I just can't do it. It just sounds like the typical, empty-headed PR crap we so often get from celebrities.

Korn, Ubisoft?

Really?

Really?

Maybe their ears work differently in France and asking someone to record a single for a video game is an insult over there. I don't know.

It used to be that people would write songs about doing drugs. This is how we know we've entered a new age, a new era of music: people write songs about doing drugs in video games!

Not knocking Haze, it just amused me :)

Megadeth wrote a lot of movie and game tunes. Would have been a better choice. But I guess they want the "young and modern" gibberish.

Korn? Didn't they die in a grease fire?

@AnEternalEnigma: I wonder what would gun n roses would do with a game like this? Man who IS good right now?

Masayuki Nakano & Tetsuya Takahashi
Basement jack rocked the apple seed sound track! The 2004 version remake!

Man was I hooked on the pillows after watching FLCL! O yeah Boom Boom satellite... Man but Korn... I don't know... I would rather hear danger mouse!

@Saxboy: LOL

Korn started sucking when Davis started to actually sing his lyrics. Here's hoping for a come back anyways though.

No one so far has considered the possibility that Haze might, in fact, be The Shit.

@Jackablade: Iron Maiden made a Gears of War song? When was that?

Given his drug-addled state, it wouldn't surprise me if Davis confused Haze with Halo and thought to piggy back on that phenomena.

I don't think anything I could post could possibly be funnier than the bare facts.

I just lost some respect for Ubi-Soft and Haze.

Whenever I see "Korn" I think of corn chips.
...yea I know that was random, but it's true.

Who cares who's doing A song on the game? I don't care for Korn, but it's one effing song in a game. If that is what makes or breaks a game for you, you have issues...(pun kind of intended, but also I squirmed in disgust when I wrote that)

Oh, gross. This is worse than the Playboy Kane and Lynch thing, because Korn was almost singlehandedly responsible for the shitty nu-metal movement.

YAY. Thats more of an annoyance than a luxury... eh well X360's can play music you put in the hard drive so it doesn't really bother me.

@Jackablade: That was Megadeth, not Iron Maiden.

Stryper has more legitimate angst than Korn does.

@NPC:

I don't care WHAT salsa you use to eat Johnathan Davis, he's still gonna leave a terrible taste in your mouth.

I'm no longer excited for this game.

@room237: I figured they would have... considereing the high possibility of a match within twenty feet of any of them creating a 20 mile high explosion. Killing innocents of course.

@futurebiblehero: Angst has to be legitimized these days? I didn't know it could ever be even remotely justified.

dig up the 1up show special on gamevideos about gears of war. luke smith caught johnathan davis and munky on the red carpet at the game's launch for a second. they're fucking lameasses, man.

it made for a pretty hearty laugh on the skills of luke smith, as well.

Korn is teh suck. Seriously. They were NEVER good.

@dead_red_eyes: oh come on, I'm sure younger (read: early teens) would disagree. I know mine would. But he's an idiot.

Those Jonathan Davis quotes...emphasis yours or his?

@JoeyOliver:

No, I'm pretty sure yo're the only one that remembers when Korn was good. That's ok. Lot's of people remember things that never happened. They have treatments for that now.

Well, I was on the fence about this one, by which I mean I didn't care at all. And now, I actively don't want it. So yeah.

@not_tom_brokaw:

Too funny!

"Gaming for me is a religion and Haze is the shit!" said Jonathan Davis, Korn lead singer. "I had to come up with a track that can hit up that kind of rush I get from the game and I think we really rocked it!!"

Practically the hardest sell I've ever heard in my entire life.

On the plus side this comment section isn't nearly as aggresive as the Fall Out Boy playing on x-box live disaster.

Keeping in sync with the band name, I'll just say this is kool....very kool

I'm not a Korn fan AT ALL. In fact, I just threw up in my mouth a little typing the band name Korn itself. But seriously, what're you gonna do? The fact is, a ton of people like Korn and they've been extremely successful in making themselves mainstream teen-rock gods. I could care less if they've got a song in Haze, just like I didn't give a shit that Halo 2 had a Breaking Benjamins song in it. As much as I'd love to see Athletic Automaton or Antony and the Jonhsons (that'd be surreal) appear in my favorite game, it's never going to happen because they're simply not popular enough. Ubisoft is in the business of selling games, so attaching a name like Korn to a title is a sure way to attract a larger audience.

@Jackablade:

That was Megadeth.

1st 3 Korn albums were ok, but the rest were Copy + Paste. That Follow the Leader CD really hit its time/place/motion, but its a bit sad that they never really progressed as artists beyond that. Hard drugs will do that to you. Korn know more than anyone that blindly cashing in leads to rapidly diminishing album sales which leads to video-game song tie ins. I am truly amazed that they are still around flogging the same dead horse.

I think other artists will do this. I'm pretty sure this gives them early copies of the game.

"Gaming for me is a religion and Haze is the shit!" said Jonathan Davis, Korn lead singer. "I had to come up with a track that can hit up that kind of rush I get from the game and I think we really rocked it!!"
 
yaaaaaawwn.
 
This wasn't a triumph... I'm making a note here: huge snoozefest.
 
I'm sorry, was Davis trying to be all tough and rockin' there? Must've dozed off reading that uninspired excuse for a press release meant to "pump up" angsty teens. Zzzzzzzzzz.

@Grommell: Agreed 100%. I think Jonathan Davis' most prominent work to date since Follow the Leader has been the theme song to Criss Angel Mindfreak.

This is similar to the long tradition of pop music-movie tie-ins (Batman, Back to the Future, Terminator 2), and it's an indication of the market position that Ubisoft is taking with Haze - a holiday entertainment "event". Regardless of the band's pedigree, cross media promotion such as this will certainly serve to spread consumer awareness of the PS3 game (exclusive?). By extension, it may be an indication of Ubisoft's growing confidence in PS3 as a gaming brand, or a "test run".

That said, I'm pretty keen to see what these guys put out, most of the generic thrash on FPS soundtracks doesn't bear a second listen. Halo made it classy using orchestration, so the opposite end of the spectrum could be a nice simple way of getting the player "pumped up".

Aren't they all like 40 now?

"Metamucil's da bomb!!"

@Stormrider900: Well, you know, one of them heavy metal typed outfits. In my defense I did actually do a quick Google search of Iron Maiden and Gears of War and it appeared to have a lot of hits.
My point stands, the song was crappy.

I don't know, but Haze doesn't stand out to me too much... looks kind of generic, doesn't bring anything new to the genre.

Huzzah! I care even less about Haze now!