Hard rock band Korn soon will be hitting the road to promote the recent album The Path of Totality. The tour, appropriately dubbed the Path of Totality Tour, will kick off in Detroit on February 23 and play a few mid-western shows before heading west, where it will wind up in San Francisco on March 4. In between those dates, the eight-concert tour will hit Chicago, Milwaukee, Denver, Salt Lake City, Phoenix and Las Vegas. The Denver and Salt Lake City dates will feature Kill the Noise, an artist who collaborated with the band on The Path of Totality.

Though not an official part of the Path of Totality tour, Korn also will appear in San Bernadino, Calif. at the NOS Events Center as part of the 2012 Cypress Hill SmokeOut. The festival was originally planned to take place in November, but was postponed due to schedule conflicts. In addition to Korn and Cypress Hill, other acts expected to appear at the event include Sublime with Rome and Wiz Khalifa.

The Path of Totality threw the dubstep genre into the already somewhat schizophrenic combination of hard rock and metal that is Korn’s signature sound. On the website of Roadrunner Records, the band’s label, lead singer Jonathan Davis sums up the novel sound on the new album.

“It’s future metal,” he said. “We’re mixing metal and electro music, and you’re not supposed to do that. Since day one, Korn has always been all about going against the grain, experimenting, and trying to take music different places.”

The group’s self-titled debut album, released in 1996, is widely reported by critics to have invented what has become known as the nu-metal genre and eventually included bands like Limp Bizkit, Stained and Papa Roach. While that album was successful, it was 1998’s Follow the Leader that really broke the band into the mainstream and became the group’s best-selling album to date.

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