Music As A Weapon No. 5

That’s right. Discounts in the form of $5 off on the first 1,000 tickets sold for each market.

“We’re tired of promoters offering discounted tickets to last minute folks in order to sell the seats in the back of the gig,” Korn’s James “Munky” Shaffer said. “We’d rather give our fans a discount for buying early.”

The blueprint shows the tour launching in Bloomington, Ill., at the U.S. Cellular Center Jan. 14 followed by Des Moines, Iowa, at the Wells Fargo Arena Jan. 15 and Rockford, Ill., at the MetroCentre Jan. 16. Other stops include Hershey, Pa., at the Giant Center Jan. 18; Rochester, N.Y., at State Armory Jan. 19; Norfolk, Va., at the Constant Convocation Center Jan. 25; Atlantic City at House Of Blues Jan. 30; Nashville at Bridgestone Arena Feb. 4 and Lubbock, Texas, at Fairpark Coliseum Feb. 12.

This isn’t one of those two-for-the-price of one co-headline festival outings that sometimes result in reduced production values. Each band promises to bring its full production to each show on the 45-city tour.

“When the idea first came up, one of the main things both bands agreed upon and wanted to focus on was hitting a lot of smaller markets,” Disturbed’s David Draiman said. “It’s exciting to bring a show like this to cities that are usually skipped over on some of the other larger rock tours that only hit the major markets. We have a lot of loyal fans in these cities and we wanted to bring them a show that they deserve.”

Rochester is already on sale and the rest of the tour goes up this weekend. For more information, click here for the Monster Energy site, here for Disturbed’s website and here for Korn’s home on the ‘Net.