(Gotta try the $10 “Coming Undone” Tahitian rose latte - with gold dust!).ĭespite the heat, spirits remained as high as the temperatures. Welcome to Sick New World, the sold-out heavy music marathon that debuted at the Las Vegas Festival Grounds on Saturday, where the black-clad crowd was largely indivisible from the similarly colored asphalt beneath their feet as they pinballed between four stages, seeking shade beneath inflatable hobgoblins and forming long lines at the Korn Koffee booth.
That’s what this day - all 13 hours of it, the majority of which were spent beneath a sun that scalded like a skinny dipping session in an active volcano - was all about. “Are you guys ready to hear some old school (expletive)?” Davis asks of the tens of thousands of sunburned and sweaty devotees before him. The exercise wear was a sartorial signature of Davis’ in the mid-’90s, when his band pioneered a new sound that became known as nü metal, an angst- and hooks-heavy subgenre defined by down-tuned guitars, hip-hop undertones, loose-fitting clothes and tightly clenched fists. “I haven’t seen these in a long time,” Korn frontman Jonathan Davis says as he tugs on a leg of his shiny Adidas tracksuit. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal) gestures toward his sparkly purple pants, which gleam as if they had been sired by a disco ball. Deftones lead singer Chino Moreno performs with the band during the Sick New World festival at the Las Vegas Festival Grounds on Saturday, May 13, 2023, in Las Vegas.
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