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A RANDOM THOUGHT ABOUT KORN’S LOGO

 Tuesday, November 18th, 2008 at 12:03pm by

So yesterday I posted the Completely Unreadable Band Logo of the Week, as I’m prone to do, and readers’ entries started pouring into my inbox, as was bound to happen.

And someone guessed that the band logo in question belonged to Korn.

At least once a week, someone guesses “Korn” or “Slipknot” or “Atreyu.” This baffles me to no end for the following reasons:

  1. Korn, Slipknkot, and Atreyu all have very readable logos.
  2. Presumably the people who guess these bands are familiar with their respective logos and should therefore feel pretty confident that, no, that logo they are currently trying to read does not belong to Korn, Slipknot, or Atreyu.

ANYWAY, this all got me thinking about Korn’s logo, and how monumentally stupid and un-metal it is. I mean, it has a backwards letter “r.” You know who else uses a backwards letter “r?”

So, there you have it. A completely random thought about Korn’s logo.

-AR

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  • Senior Swanky

    That’s it?

    • Andreas

      The backward “R” is not from fucking toy’s r us, its the russian letter used beacose it genuis. Korn Rules!

      • Johnny

        The letter “R” is backwards, ’cause Davis wrote it with his left hand (he’s righthanded) and then he asked other members of Korn that is it alright and they all accepted it.

        • turd fergason

          koRn fucking rules and any body that says metal sucks is just a pansy ass who listens to shit like bruno mars and katy perry that auto tune any thing that comes out of thier ass when they put it up to a microphone but any body who thinks that sounds better than metal must have their head so far up their ass they cant smell the shit spewing from their mouth!

          • http://www.facebook.com/people/Andy-Montalvo/1520528598 Andy Montalvo

            Cool story bro.

  • Jesse

    You mean you don’t think it’s hilarious that people guess Korn and Slipknot? I thought that was a sure fire knee slapper if there ever was one.

  • hater

    This one time when i took a crap, i looked in the bowl and sure enough, it spelt ‘Slipknot’. that’s how shitty they are.

    • http://cherish c-chick

      one time this dude named ‘hater’ suck a big one

  • Senior Swanky

    Oh I chuckled plenty but I was hoping for more, but I guess that why it was just a random though and not a full blown essay on the matter.
    I just always gets my hopes up.

  • o0Stacey0o

    hahaha, good call.

  • tim

    slipknot

  • Sammy

    Axl, here’s my random thought about your random thought: You’re obsessed over Korn the way evangelicals are way too concerned with homosexuals. I always suspect they are hiding some repressed homosexual feelings and using their bully pulpit to mask their hidden desires.

    This begs the question (and I’ll paraphrase Meet the Parents): Are you a Kornhead, Axl?

  • Kevin

    I don’t know if you noticed, but not only is the “R” backwards, but “corn” does not have a “K” in it. Furthermore, either “Korn” or “Corn” is a ridiculously stupid name for a band. It is, however, delicious.

  • vman

    I saw a dude at the Warped Tour in ’01 with that logo tattooed on his neck, we laughed at him for an hour. So far, nothing I’ve seen has ever topped it.

  • ian

    I’d just like to point out that TOOL starts with “TO”.
    Do you know what else starts with “TO”?
    Toys R Us.
    So there.

  • Senior Swanky

    During this past CMJ I met a fella who went by the name Korn, His ID even had Korn down as his name except the R was not backwards.

  • Completely Irrelevant Comment Man

    I had Korn in my poop this morning.

  • The Mighty Fucking Quinn

    Irrelevant Comment Man – How does Jonathan Davis actually taste?

    I agree with Kevin, although I’m more of a potato man myself.One day Dan Quayle will make his way into metal.

  • amy

    um wow i actually know the answer to this. KORN (with backward R) were the call letters (like KNAC) of the radio station on the horrid redneck variety show Hee Haw.

    Buck Owens was the house band on Hee Haw, and among the ranks of Owens’ band is Jonathan Davis’ dad or uncle or something.

    Also, later in life, Owens bought radio KUZZ in Bakersfield, CA, home to Korn HQ.

    SORRY!

  • Sammy

    In other news, commentor Amy was officially banned from Metalsucks at 3:37PM, November 18, 2008.

    ;)

  • Kye

    oomdakdaoomdakdaeena

    That is all

  • http://myspace.com/kristinahaswings Princess

    lol @ Sammy

  • Anthony

    I’m sure if Gojira used a backward “R” in their logo we’d get a post from Axl saying “OMGZ I LOVEZ JOE FROM GOJIRA S000000 MUCH!!!111!!! THEYZ HAVE THE BEST LOGO!!!!!!!111. AND THEY USE A BACKWARDS “r” Omgz THAT’S SO PROGRESSIVEZ!!!!”

    • http://cherish c-chick

      haha that’s kinda funny

  • Crunch

    Yeah you are right man! well… after all Korn isnt metal in my book

  • earth2tom

    I don’t know is this is the thread where we guess about the unreadable logo, but my guess is Korn.

  • Chris

    ahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahah

  • Johnny Death

    Hey, the Toys “R” Us / Babies “R” Us banner is a great addition to the site! However, It’s too bad you had to bring Korn into it as well. They are soo not metal. Thanks for the knee-slapper!

  • shut ur mouth b4 if fuk it

    maybe toys r us owns korn?

    • NIkk

      You’re stupid

  • get over yourselves

    I understand Korn are not the most talented hand full of musicians but give me a break. I’m so sick of seeing comments like “Korn is sooo not metal”. Who gives a damn? Something HAS to be metal or you won’t listen to it? Learn to think for yourself. Listen to whatever you want and if people give you shit for it, so fucking what? If you honestly don’t like a band, that’s fine…but saying “they aren’t metal so they suck” is just plain close minded. I completely agree with Anthony when he says if Gojira had a backwards R in their name, you people would be drooling about it because they are “sooo metal.” Bias queers. And save yourself the trouble of typing something back to me accusing me of being some hardcore Korn fan because you couldn’t be any farther from the truth.

  • http://none Michael McCreary

    Are you serious, korn isnt even metal. even though metal is in fact VERY awesome. Korn rocks and you just cant denie that, i bet most of you have never even heard any song from Korn. I challenge you all to download lime wire at limewire.com then download another brick in the wall. i found this site when i was in fact looking for the Korn logo, you people must be illiterate hicks if you cant read this.

  • DUSTIN

    YOUR AN IDIOT. KORN’S MUSIC IS FOR THE KIDS. THE MUSIC IS FOR THE KIDS THAT GET PICKED IN SCHOOL OR HAVE NO WHERE TO TURN.

  • Twist

    OMG is there seriously a website about metal sucking?? you fags need to get fuckin hobbies! WTF?

  • kornage1277

    fuck you all..pricks who know fuck all

  • KoRn fan

    This post is retarded xD I don’t even know why I responding to your post..

    but come on.. xD There are much more things to badmouth on the bands and this random thought is just so stupid xD

    • Toni

      Go all Korn and other metal fans!

  • Toni

    of course it’s Korn u dumbasses! Korn is one of the best bands out there! along with other METAL bands. Disturbed, Rob Zombie, Slipknot, Godsmack, Ozzy Ozzbourne, Slayer, Aerosmith. WTF is wrong with u ppl? just jealous that they sound better than the shit u probably listen to?

  • http://thisisaurl cherish

    well you know what you can shuv your little queer thought down a toilet bc korn rocks and people like you make me mad u big sack of ****