HEAD DISCUSSES LEAVING KORN

Head has gone on to clear up some popular misconceptions about his split from Korn, and he has a lot to say.

Korn hasn’t been the same since guitarist Brian “Head” Welch announced to the band and the world he was leaving in 2005. The band continues to function, and Head cleared up some misconceptions, one of which that it was solely his religious experience that drove him away from Korn. He said that it was real-world situations and his own “Issues” that led him to initially depart the band.

Head talked about the situation that let him to quit the band.

“It was, I would say, the Methamphetamine habit and me being away from my daughter was just, it was just too much, man. I couldn’t live like that anymore. I couldn’t be away from my kid. I was a single father trying to hire nannies. It was a bunch of things at once. What happened is after the album Issues, Korn – Issues, that’s when my ex-wife left, and right then I became a single father and right then my heart was no longer in Korn as much because it was at home with my kid. I was trying to juggle her. I was trying to figure out all these ways to raise her while still being in the band, hiring Nannies, and then the Nannies would freak out, and I’d have to hire another Nanny. It wasn’t working. Instead of making a choice I dove deeper into partying just to forget about it.”

Head talked about the percentages of issues that let him to quit Korn.

“I’d say, I don’t know about percentages, it was everything mixed together in a big pot. I didn’t like the musical direction. It just seemed like we were getting away from the heavy sound. It was everything mixed up.. I can’t tell you. Number One would be my daughter, and Number Two is, ‘I’m going to die from drugs if I don’t change everything.'”

Head did admit that the band was very supportive of his parental situation.

“No, the band was very supportive. Everybody, even the big ol’ bodyguards would take her for stroller rides. It was really cool, but it just wasn’t a place for a kid. I couldn’t find a… I could have if I looked hard enough. I could have just had her just live on the road, but she was just… I don’t know, dude. You kind of watch yourself, I could ask these guys, ‘Well be cool, my kid is here,’ but it’s their world too and they want to party and they want to do anything, and smoking, people trying not to smoke around her. Everyone is cussing and stuff, and she has a jar for cuss words, making a dollar a cuss word, and she’s getting excited that everyone’s cussing, and I’m like ‘Man, this isn’t a good place for her. It just wasn’t.’ It wasn’t.”

Head’s new album, Save Me From Myself, is set to hit stores next Tuesday, September 9, and fans can delve into what he experienced which is chronicled on the album. The first single from the collection is “Flush.”