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In case you've missed their multiplatinum album Follow the Leader, their very cool, Todd McFarlane-directed video for ''Freak on a Leash,'' or their four blistering tracks on the just-released Family Values live album, here's a quick summary: Korn totally rock. It wasn't always thus, however. Just ask frontman Jonathan Davis. Growing up in Bakersfield, Calif., Davis actually listened to wimpy synth-pop bands like (gasp!) Duran Duran. But that all changed when he discovered Motley Crue's Shout at the Devil.
''I was into Bauhaus, Ministry, Depeche Mode, the Thompson Twins. Dude, I was a New Romantic! I was a sissy la-la. They even took me to the gay [students'] counselor just because I wore makeup. All the cheerleaders would come and try and pick up on me just for laughs. That hurt. And then I bought my first Motley Crue album. They looked f---in' weird. They just looked mean and scary to a 15-year-old. The music seemed so heavy to me. The second week I had it, my dad burned it. He was a born-again Christian [at the time] and said it was full of demons. It was. I loved that album. I still do.''
