Korn’s Jonathan Davis has collaborated with Scandinavian industrial act SKYND on only their second single.
Speaking exclusively to Gigwise at the Metal Hammer Golden Gods awards ceremony at the 02, SKYND said Davis had approached her and her co-writer and performer Father after hearing their debut single in the LA studio.
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“That was actually a pretty funny story,” she said, “because we sent my music to a mixing guy in LA, Eric Racy, and it was a big co-incidence that JD was in the studio that day. He was listening to my music and he loved the topic too, because I sing about true crime and serial killers and he’s a huge fan of true crime as well. So, we’re pretty much alike and he was like ‘I really need to know that girl, who is she?!’ He texted us, me and Father, and asked if we were interested in featuring or doing a collaboration. We were like ‘of course, you’re my hero!’ Then we made the video together too, it was awesome.”
She said that although the session had been pretty nerve wracking initially, Davis had done everything to put her at her ease. “He made me pretty calm you don’t need to be nervous because you’re awesome, we’ll just do this together.”
She described having her music dubbed by Davis as ‘haunting genius’ was “one of the most rewarding thing for me ever, there’s nothing better than that!” She added that her controversial approach of writing songs about real life crimes – the band’s debut single ‘Elisa Lam’ is about a still unsolved mystery of a student found dead in a water tank in LA – had drawn a lot of opposition from some people in her life, but working with Davis had given her the courage of her convictions. “He made really sure about what I was doing,” she said.
The collaboration with Davis is titled ‘Gary Heidnik’, after the American murderer who kidnapped, tortured, and raped six women, killing two of them, and is scheduled for release in July.
