This year marks the 20th anniversary of the first-ever Family Values tour, Korn's iconic hip-hop and metal festival. To mark the occasion, frontman Jonathan Davis sat down for an interview with Metal Hammer, where he reminisced about the genre-merging event's glory days in the late Nineties and early Aughts — and later, teased a future comeback. "Family Values could definitely happen again," he remarked.
While he stopped short of confirming a full Family Values reboot — which would mark the tour's first installment in over five years — Davis says, "it's definitely something we could look at doing again in the future." He adds that he's hoping book trap artists for the festival's hip-hop portion to reflect the current musical climate.
"I'd like to bring out trap artists and things reflecting what's going on right now in music, just like we did back in the day," he said of his hopes for a potential new Family Values tour. "There's plenty of aggressive acts in all forms of music that could tour together and do a new Family Values so it's definitely something we could look at doing again in the future."
Other Family Values–related topics discussed in the interview included Korn's' attempts to get Deftones on the inaugural lineup ("We always tried to get Deftones on the tour but we could never figure it out"), their infamous "Korn Kage," which gave lucky fans the chance to rock out with the band onstage ("I still think it's one of the coolest things we've ever done," he bragged), and more.
Held in 1998, the first Family Values tour featured Korn (obviously), Limp Bizkit, Ice Cube, Incubus, Orgy and Rammstein. In 2000, the annual, traveling event went on hiatus for financial reasons, before returning in 2006 as a one-day event. Bands and rappers who've played the fest include Limp Bizkit, Mobb Deep, DMX, Evanescence, Machine Gun Kelly, Stone Sour, Primus, Trivium, among others.
