ALL DAY I DREAM ABOUT ABOUT ROSS ROBINSON
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009 at 11:02am by Vince Neilstein
Thanks to MS Maniac Aaron M. for pointing out the hilariousness that is ensuing over at Ross Robinson’s Twitter account re: the new Korn record. Yeah, Robinson is producing the new Korn record — somehow I missed that too.
I have somewhat of a difficult relationship with Ross Robinson. On one hand he produced one of the bestest albums ever in the form of At the Drive-In’s Relationship of Command, and he also produced landmark albums by Glassjaw and Slipknot. On the other hand he produced way more albums that are just all sorts of terrible — records by Limp Bizkit (this in and of itself is a crime worthy of corporal punishment), Korn, Cold, Soulfly, Machine Head’s cringe-worthy rap-metal phase, and Vanille Ice’s nu-metal “comeback” record. As a producer who was definitely pigeonholed into a genre (rightly or wrongly), unsurprisingly Robinson hasn’t had a whole lot of work lately.
But he sure got a nice money gig for the new Korn joint. And he’s all sorts of excited about it! Here we go:
Korn, Day one: pikt out drums/cartage broke wheel of my 24 trk tape mchn/fairchild on cymb/made catbox/knee wnt out of socket-kicks ass12:01 AM Aug 6th
Tracked two korn songs and now watching repeater play- I feel so cool seeing them rip it so hard! Why is life so good?3:06 AM Aug 8th
It’s on-new korn = pure ruthless fire with the deep purpose bleeding intention thru every beat – I’m very very happy 5:10 AM Aug 15th
So, yeah, that. Stay tuned for more LOLz and life-reaffirming happiness tweets via Ross Robinson’s Twitter account!
-VN
Ross made the best KoRn album so it will be interesting to see what happens there!!
haha i had no idea he did vanilla ice or machine head’s rap metal phase
Nobody worry about Ross, because it looks like he’s doing just fine.
Although I do wish he would quit screwing around with Korn and get back into the studio with Slipknot. After last year’s limp, soggy mess of an album, they need him back.
You cannot fault the man for producing Limp Bizkit, do you know how much money he got paid? You’re all fucking liars if you say you wouldn’t do the same thing. Not like he could have made the songs any better anyway, may as well get paid.
Which Soulfly album did he produce? This would be easy enough to find out, but I gotta run.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Robinson#Albums_produced
also, it was limp bizkit’s first album, so he probably didn’t get paid that much.
in truth, i can’t really hate on ross robinson all that much. i grew up with the guy’s records, so i have a soft spot for him. korn’s first two albums, limp bizkit, those were great records for the time that they mattered. and even though he’s worked with some extremely shitty bands like drop dead, gorgeous, i will still always have a spot in my heart for ross robinson.
i don’t even know what the point of all that was. no point. pointlessness.
he did get paid, cause the boy get’s “Points” on the record.. that album sold a ton… RR gets a LOT of money for whoever he records. Either up front or points on the record or both.
Yeah, a producer like him is getting royalties on sales. That record sold 2 million copies.
He looks like Jeff Gordon
At a glance I thought it was Rich Franklin from UFC.
I fail to see how Limp Bizkit, Korn, Cold, and Soulfly are complete shit, but Glassjaw, ATDI, and Slipknot are good. Every single band listed in this article is complete shit.
Truer words..
ATDI Relationship of Command is one of the best records of the past decade, hands down.
Maybe if we kill this guy than Nu-Metal will finally fuck off.
the only good band mentioned in this shit list of groups is At the Drive In. I agree, kill Ross!
y does rss rbnsn type lik caveman
Didn’t he also produce Sepultura’s Roots? He is the nu metal Midas. Everything he touches turns to poop.
Yes, he did produce roots, and the NuMetal Midas thing=win.
I kind of like Roots. It’s easily the worst Cavalera era Sepultura album but I still listen to it from time to time. The only thing good “Sepultura” (quotes necessary) have made since Max left was Dante XII.
True, and yet Dante XIII still can’t carry the jockstrap of any Max-era Sepultura albums (even Roots).
The way this site bums Slipknot while mocking the likes of Korn amuses me greatly. Korn were way more important to music than Slipknot will ever be, in fact without Korn, Slipknot wouldn’t have been possible. Hell, they even based their logo on Korn’s for fuck’s sake.
Ummm, no.
No what?
Your “slipknot wouldn’t have been possible without Korn.” Wrong.
Well I suppose they could still have existed, but they wouldn’t have sounded at all the same. At the end of the day, they’re a nu-metal band (or at least, highly influenced by nu-metal), and if it wasn’t for Korn there’d be no such thing.
Machine Heads rap metal phase is something in which we do not speak of.
It’s the metal community’s Macbeth.
I remember an interview with him from years ago, when he was at the top. He was really into norwegian black metal, and even contacted Emperor to produce their next album. He got a reply saying “that’s not going to happen” or something like that.
Nu metal ist krieg
He’d probably be really suited to black metal actually, since everything he produces sounds like shit.
coming from the Korn fanboy… Yea i really trust your oppinion
LOL. Maybe he’ll get his own public access show and be all fruity happy like that other guy Bob Ross. “happy little trees” guy
“Okay I’m just gonna produce a happy lil’ Korn album over there… Hmm, better use some Sagebrush Rap.”
He produced Fear Factoiy’s Concrete demo which has a much rawer sound than Soul of a New Machine. It also has a much cooler version of Piss Christ. But yeah, everything else he produced was shite.
I think he also produced Norma jeans redeemer. Which was also not a good album
I’m just going to wait to hear what he brings to the new Korn album before I piss, moan or praise.