Although the band's stage act was limited due to the enormity of KORN and Rob Zombie's props, Videodrone used what it had to work the sparse crowd. Since it is hard to get a crowd excited about a virtually unknown act, Videodrone vocalist Ty Elam tried to get the audience on his side in other ways.

"Anybody here high tonight?" Elam asked the Gen-X crowd, which seemingly answered yes with its roar. "Well, here's a love song about marijuana."

But the fans were at the Jordan Center to see the headlining acts, and they went nuts as the curtain dropped to reveal Rob Zombie and his ghoulish set. Surrounded by skulls and smoke, Zombie's set was a combination of Castle Greyskull and the Munsters' house.

Zombie played songs from his latest solo release as well as some from his days with White Zombie. At one point, Zombie said the floor crowd was the smallest he'd seen in a venue this large. But perhaps that's because everyone was waiting for KORN.

If that was the case, they missed the best part of the night.

Zombie was there to shock, and he did just that.

While playing through "Real Solution #9," Zombie showed images of serial killer Charles Manson and one of his victims, Sharon Tate, on huge screens behind the drummer. In one of the scenes, Manson seemed to be dancing to the music Zombie was playing.

When Zombie wasn't shocking the crowd with images of serial killers, he was doing it with giant robots, topless dancing girls and pyrotechnics.

During the finale, "Dragula," giant fireballs shot into the air. The heat from the flames was felt far into the seats.

No matter how much Zombie excited the crowd, everyone was still there to see KORN. And when Zombie finally left the stage, fans knew they were only moments away from seeing their rock idols.

When KORN's curtain finally fell, it revealed a prison motif complete with barbed wire and inmates -- those lucky fans who got to look at the back of Jonathan Davis all night long.

Playing a variety of songs from its three albums, KORN worked the crowd into a frenzy. The tightly packed floor crowd moshed and body-surfed the night away. During the band's latest hit single, "Freak On A Leash," the crowd became an ocean of bobbing heads and stomping feat.

However, KORN's set was a disappointment, lacking the intensity Zombie brought to the stage. Perhaps KORN has become too big for its own good. Perhaps the band members think they can just stumble through a set.

Perhaps rock is dead.