Motivated by the horrific BP oil disaster and its devastating effects, KoRn is launching a boycott against using the company’s gasoline while on tour this summer. The band has formally announced that it will not be fueling any of its touring vehicles with BP products and is strongly encouraging other touring artists to do the same. KoRn will spend their summer as a headliner on the third annual Rock Star Energy Drink Mayhem Festival and they urge the other acts on the bill to join the boycott.
"The daily images are hard to watch," says frontman Jonathan Davis. "We need to do our part to let BP know there are consequences for causing something like this. We want to send a message to corporations like BP so that they will take more preventative measures in the future. The more costly their punishment, the more money they will spend to make sure disasters like this don’t happen again. It’s plain and simple capitalism."
In a coincidence of life imitating art, KoRn’s new album artwork, photography and stage set imagery reference the band’s hometown area near Bakersfield, CA where the landscape is littered with oil rigs. The video for the first single, "Oildale (Leave Me Alone)," reveals a poverty-stricken area situated among the oil fields and tells the story of a young boy’s desire to escape. The video echoes the band’s own struggle to get out of Bakersfield.
Davis adds, "It was one thing for us to grow up near such poverty. But the situation in the Gulf takes things to a whole new level where people’s lives and livelihoods are affected forever."
KoRn's next album, KoRn III – Remember Who You Are, is due out July 13 via Roadrunner Records.
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Wasn't sure where to post this.
I feel like people should be making a bigger deal out of the oil spill. I mean just because those affected aren't human doesn't mean we shouldn't help them. Like in Haiti they were supported, while nature is left to die.
