KORN GUITARIST SETS THE RECORD STRAIGHT ABOUT FINDING GOD

Former Korn guitarist Brian Head Welch set the record straight on timeline of him leaving Korn and finding god.

Last week we shared the real reasons behind the departure of former Korn guitarist Brian Head Welch from the band, and although he didn’t leave because of his spiritual happenings, it was a signal from a power greater than himself that helped him solidify his decision. This was behind the book and now just released album, both titled Save Me From Myself.

Welch said that he had already decided to quit the band for his daughter when his spiritual encounter took place.

“I just remember going through the bible one night. It was right after I quit Korn. I still had some speed left. I tried to quit once, and I just felt like, I was going, ‘Man, what’s up? Am I going crazy? Is this stuff real? Is God real? Did I just blow it by leaving the band? What’s going on?,’ and then all of the sudden I felt a peaceful presence come into the room. Something from another place poured into that room for, like, five minutes, and it was… I felt paradise. Something came into my soul and took all that grind away, fear, depression, anxiety, everything, unbelief or whatever, something came and took it all away. I felt like I was in paradise for five minutes. I looked up, and I was like, ‘God is this you?'”

He added:

“I just felt, kinda like someone hugging me saying, ‘Everything is going to be OK. Don’t worry about it.’ Right then, it was like ‘This stuff is real. Everything changes right now.’ The next day I threw away all my speed. I’m like, ‘I’m done.’ I want that what I felt because I was just such a broken, hurting person, man. I wanted that peace, and it became real to me. A lot of people thought I was nuts or whatever, but I was like no one is going to take away what I felt that day. No one can because look at me, three and a half years later I’m still… Obviously something happened because I’m still changed. I didn’t go back. It changed my life.”

Head also wrote the book Save Me From Myself, long before the release of the September 9 album of the same name. He said that he wished he toned his spiritual enthusiasm down for Korn fans, some of which he said might never truly understand the spiritual event that happened to him.

“Yeah, there’s definitely some stuff. It would have shared… It would have probably mostly been the same as it is now, but some of the spiritual stuff I probably would have been more private and used more wisdom when I talked about it. Because when you talk about stuff like that and people don’t understand that, people are going, ‘This is weird.’ But I had to be real and talk about what I went through and how I got to where I am right now or where I was at the time I finished the book. There’s some stuff I rambled on about that I could have cut down a little bit. It’s all good. I’m pleased with it. Everything happens for a reason.”

Head is contemplating taking his show on the road with a live band. More news on that later. Also stay tuned next week for Head’s thoughts on if he’d ever rejoin Korn. rn