KORN Sues Former Drummer for Sneaky Maneuvers & Blocking Profits
The good news is, Korn frontman Jonathan Davis and lead guitarist Munky have been promising a new album in 2019. The bad news is, the band’s former drummer is rock-blocking Korn from receiving payments they’re owed. It’s a bit of a complex situation that our friends at Rock Feed attempt to unravel in the video above. Here’s the gist.
David Silveria is a founding member of Korn who played drums in the band from 1993 until his departure in 2006. The reasons he left have always been nebulous; the other members of Korn say he was fired but Silveria claims he was blindsided after being told that the band was merely going on hiatus.
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The litigiousness began in 2015 when Silveria took the rest of Korn to court claiming that, as a founding member of the band, he was entitled to a percentage of future revenues. The request must have been fair enough, because that suit was settled out of court. Now, Korn is suing Silveria over the loss of $300K in lost revenue.
Davis and company claim Silveria violated the terms of the 2015 settlement by using backchannels to request a share of revenue from the band’s tunes on Sound Exchange. When Korn cried foul, Sound Exchange decided to step out of the fray completely by putting a hold on Korn’s entire catalog. Thus, the loss of revenue, estimated at around $300K.
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Is this a band break-up of a divorce? Hopefully, all issues will be resolved before Korn’s new album arrives, sometime in 2019. We’ll keep you posted.
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