Korn and Evanescence Family Values Tour Review
By: Alexis Abrahamson

This year Korn and Evanescence co-headlined on august 28th, in the Rabobank Arena, to throw an outstanding concert in Korn’s hometown, of Bakersfield. The Family Values tour consisted of Atreyu, Flyleaf, Trivium, Hellyeah, Evanescence, and Korn. Hellyeah was the first to perform. They sang about five songs, one of which was was their new single Alcohaulin’ Ass. About every guy that didn’t even know the lyrics, happily sang along to the clearly understandable song. Next to perform was the band Flyleaf, who did an awesome job. The music sounded even better than on the CD. The surprisingly tiny lead singer, Lacey Mosley , twirled herself around the stage in her big red and black striped dress. Making all the fans who came to see them scream in excitement. After Flyleaf preformed, most of the punk dressed girls left with them. The following performance was by Trivium. They threw a good show for all the metal fans. The thing is, if you aren’t a metal fan you would not be able to understand the lyrics. They have a hardcore metal scream when they sing. The bass was so powerful in the tiny arena that every word they sang would pound in your chest, causing the metal fans on the floor to run around pushing each other, laughing and screaming along with the band. Next to play was Atreyu, who’s songs moved back and forth from screaming to singing. They were a great band to put in the tour because everyone in the audience seemed to enjoy them. Atreyu had everyone hold out there fists straight ahead and sing along with them during the whole performance.

After Atreyu’s performance was over, a big black piano was rolled onto the stage. Everyone knew what that meant, Evanescence was up next. When lead singer Amy Lee walked onto the stage, the fans went wild. Lee’s voice was so powerful during her performance, that it overshadowed the rest of the band. It seemed like Evanescence added a more metal flare to their songs, which was a good thing because it helped them blend in better with the previous performances’, and it also helped the audience who never really listen to them, appreciate them more. As Lee sat herself down on the piano, a huge light show appeared behind her. There were lines of light glistening down like rain, in a range of red and white. Everyone cried out in excitement. For the rest of the show, the lights moved along with the music, making it look like you can feel the music being played. When Evanescence was done with their show, you could hear a pin drop because the audience knew what would be coming up next. All the lights were off and the staff was putting together a new stage setup. After anxious time passed, creepy circus music started to play and Korn came on stage. The crowd went absolutely insane. People were screaming at the top of their lungs, standing up with their arms open. The lead singer Jonathan Davis greeted his hometown, said how excited he is to be back, and how he was going to throw one hell of a show, which is exactly what he did. For the first three songs Korn just had some dimmed white lights on top of them, but then during the middle of one of their songs the lights moved more towards the roof. Then all of a sudden a great big wall of lights flash in front of the crowd, and every Korn fan could see nothing but each other. Every person in there was stunned, and the people went completely nuts. For the rest of the show it looked like it was Riddler’s cave, from batman. There were green lasers moving in and out all across the audience, moving to the music. It looked so surreal with all the lights glowing through all the fog and there was a certain hint of illegal smoke that probably was the reason why most people could not stop smiling. Even Jonathan Davis said he was feeling a little too happy on stage. On the last song of the night Korn preformed their hit single, Blind. It seemed like everyone in the arena knew all the words, which was strange because there were fifty year old women holding lighters right next to twenty something metal fans, all singing together. Towards the end of the song Korn used every single light used during the concert, causing Korn fans to be Blind. For only thirty-eight dollars you were able to hear the top rock performers, and see Jonathan Davis in his famous Scottish Kilt. That was definitely money and time well spent.