L.A.P.D.

L.A.P.D.

L.A.P.D. is an American funk metal band active from 1989 to 1993. The group later becomes important in the early history of Korn, with several of its members going on to form that band.

Background and name

The band first uses the name L.A.P.D. as an acronym for “Love and Peace Dude”. It later changes the meaning of the name to “Laughing As People Die”, which the group uses in an effort to be taken more seriously.

Style and membership

The band’s music combines funk metal with hardcore punk and thrash metal. Its line-up includes James “Munky” Shaffer, Reginald “Fieldy” Arvizu, David Silveria and singer Richard Morrill. Morrill later leaves, after which the remaining members continue under the name Creep and add guitarist Brian Welch.

Later development

In 1993, after adding Jonathan Davis, the former frontman of Sex Art, the group begins calling itself Korn, with the name stylised using a backwards “R”.