KoRn to Host 'MTV Unplugged: KoRn' Virtual Album Release Party in MTV Networks' Virtual World

KoRn to Host 'MTV Unplugged: KoRn' Virtual Album Release Party in MTV Networks' Virtual World

Live Acoustic Album Set for March 6, 2007 Release on Virgin Records America

'MTV Unplugged: KoRn' Premieres for the First Time Commercial Free on MTV Friday, March 2 at 11:30pm ET/PT

NEW YORK, Feb. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- KoRn fans around the globe no longer have to fly to Los Angeles for a chance to meet the band.

In a first for this revolutionary alternative rock band, KoRn will host a virtual record release party in MTV Networks' virtual world in anticipation of the imminent CD release of MTV UNPLUGGED: KoRn. The party gets started on Wednesday, February 28, 2007 at 8 PM ET/5 PM PT, as the band members, who will be represented in-world by specially created avatars, unveil their new album, interact live with fans and screen behind-the-scenes footage and exclusive clips from their MTV Unplugged performance.

KoRn fans can join the band in-world by downloading the virtual world application for free at http://www.virtualkorn.mtv.com/. MTV will also give away virtual t-shirts and posters to lucky KoRn fans in-world.

MTV UNPLUGGED: KoRn will be released on Virgin Records on March 6, 2007, following the on-air premiere of "MTV Unplugged: KoRn" on MTV Friday, March 2 at 11:30 PM ET/PT for the first time commercial free. This global television event will be featured on MTV, mtvU and MTV Tr3s, as well as through MTV's numerous online and mobile platforms. In the program, Grammy winners KoRn perform acoustic versions of the band's greatest hits, as well as several new songs unique to the "MTV Unplugged" performance.

KoRn also welcomes two guest performers to the "MTV Unplugged" stage: alternative music pioneers The Cure, and Amy Lee, lead singer and songwriter of Evanescence. The band's one-time collaboration with Lee on the classic "Freak on a Leash" (originally released on KoRn's No. 1 album Follow the Leader) has already broken out of the program to air as a music video on MTV in "Big 10" rotation, as well as in MTV2's "Elite 8" and mtvU's "Summa Cum Laude" rotation -- the highest exposure level on each channel.

KoRn's debut album on Virgin Records, SEE YOU ON THE OTHER SIDE, released in 2006, has sold more than a million copies in the U.S. Two tracks from the album, "Twisted Transistor" and "Coming Undone," were Top 5 rock radio airplay hits. The band's "MTV Unplugged" appearance also follows the most successful year of the Family Values Tour, created by KoRn in 1998. Over 400,000 tickets were sold in 2006.

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MTV UNPLUGGED: KoRn
TRACK LISTING

1. Blind
2. Hollow Life
3. Freak On A Leash (featuring Amy Lee of Evanescence)
4. Falling Away From Me
5. Creep
6. Love Song
7. Got The Life
8. Twisted Transistor
9. Coming Undone
10. Make Me Bad / In Between Days (featuring The Cure)
11. Throw Me Away

Source: MTV Networks

CONTACT: Angelica Cob-Baehler, Capitol Music Group, +1-323-692-1195,
Angelica.Cob@capitolmusic.com, or Mariana Agathoklis, MTV Networks Music/Logo
Group, +1-212-846-5755, Mariana.Agathoklis@mtvstaff.com

Web site: http://www.mtv.com/
http://www.korn.com/
http://www.virtualkorn.mtv.com/

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