The Time Korn Fans Designed The Band’s Album Cover.
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What’s up guys we’re back with yet another MTV contest video, but this one of the newer contests I’ve covered. This one dates back to 1999 when Korn was about to drop their fourth album Issues in November. Two months before it’s release the band teamed up with MTV to run a contest that would allow one lucky fan the chance to design the album artwork, oh and the band judged a collection of Korn cover bands. That’s what we’re going to discuss in today’s video.
Korn would appear on the music scene in 1994 with their self titled debut album and over the years follow it up with 1996’s Life is Peachy and 1998’s Follow the Leader. The band enjoyed a tremendous amount of success selling million of records, but the success also came with a lot of extracurricular activities. Davis would tell an interviewer “Follow The Leader is my album of self-destruction. There’s none of my childhood stuff going on any more. This is more about me dealing with pressures I put on myself. The pressure of what it’s like to be in this band, of being a father, all kinds of shit.” But ahead of the band’s fourth record, 1999’s Issues Frontman Jonathan Davis would end up getting sober and the band would end up enlisting Stone Temple Pilots and Pearl Jam producer Brendan O’ Brien who was no-nonsense in the studio. Davis talked about his change to his lifestyle
Ahead of the album’s release, drummer David Silveria would speak to MTV and gave fans a heads up in terms of what they could expect on Korn’s forthcoming album revealing it was “a little more simplified” “kind of heavier grooves” and was “kind of similar to the beginning. Long and short, fans weren’t going to expect a drastic departure from the band’s previous works.
Here’s the commercial mtv ran.
MTV News would write announcing the contest Korn is looking for square works of art that feature an abstract design or an image of the entire group. All entries must be mailed to Korn via its label, Epic Records, and be in their hands no later than Monday, October 4. WHen the contest ran the band hadn’t yet announced the name of their forthcoming album. Korn would appear on MTV to reveal the winning entry and they would even judge korn cover bands. Silveria would claim to mtv it was his idea to release the album with four different covers and itw as the band’s manager who suggested that they should let their fans design teh cover and they choose the best one. The band claimed they got flooded with over 25,000 entries but mtv would report they got 6,000 entries. . and hear’s a montage of the revealing the album cover and introducing the winner Alfredo Carlos.
Alfredo Carlos who was 23 at the time submitted his design in a pizza box, won $10,000 and played host to the band at a signing session they did in the san fernando valley shortly after the album’s release. d Carlos, who submitted his design in a pizza box, received $10,000 and was host to the signing session in this San Fernando Valley town about 20 miles northwest of Los Angeles.
There were four finalists chosen for the album cover with some of the other entrants having their artwork used for special editions of the album However I saw someone on reddit posted a picture of six different covers.
Looking at some of the posts on the nu-metal reddit thread one poster claimed around the time of the contest there were some people claiming the winner stole the artwork and supposedly found where it was copied from, but I couldn’t find any follow up on that. However someone claiming to be his kid responded to the s
