According to a recent AOL interview with Korn lead singer Jonathan Davis, he’s working on an opera entitled Oblivion with none other than Clive Barker. I’ve been wondering what was up with this project: Barker mentioned a potential collaboration with Davis to me waaay back in the spring of 2001, but that was pretty much the last I heard of it; I don’t recall it being mentioned in any of the upcoming-project laundry lists that official Barker site Revelations puts together on a regular basis. I’ll admit that this project is a lot less interesting to me now than it was six years ago considering Korn’s output since then, but take it from this metal fan: Korn’s first few records contain enough interesting ideas to make a Davis/Barker collab worth looking into. (Via Bloody Disgusting.)
I’m just going to assume here that it’s really wrong of me to imagine Korn plus Cenobites in a Scooby-Doo style adventure like the one in the South Park episode with Korn. “Why, this isn’t Oblivion, it’s…Old Man Henderson!” “And I would have got away with it if it weren’t for you meddling fetishists!”
I won’t resist the authorities.