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Acoustic Rock
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24 сен 2025 :	KORN's 'See You On The Other Side' To Receive 20th-Anniversary Limited-Edition Deluxe Vinyl Release
18 июн 2025 :
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12 мар 2025 :	BRIAN 'HEAD' WELCH On Rejoining KORN In 2013: 'I Was Given A Second Chance To Be A Rock Star In A Healthy Way'
24 фев 2025 :	FIELDY Claims He Hasn't Spoken To His Longtime KORN Bandmates Since 2019
11 дек 2024 :	BRIAN 'HEAD' WELCH Says It Will 'Take A While' For KORN To Release New Music: 'It's Not Gonna Be Soon'
23 окт 2024 :	MAX CAVALERA Looks Back On KORN's First Album: 'It's An Incredible Record'
14 окт 2024 :	Ex-KORN Drummer DAVID SILVERIA On Debut Album's 30th Anniversary: 'The Right Five Guys Came Together At The Perfect Time'
14 окт 2024 :	KORN's JONATHAN DAVIS Celebrates Debut Album's Anniversary: 'I Can't Believe You're 30 Years Old'
7 окт 2024 :	Watch: KORN Joined By EVANESCENCE's AMY LEE For 'Freak On A Leash' Performance At Los Angeles's BMO Stadium
13 сен 2024 :	Watch: KORN Kicks Off Summer/Fall 2024 North American Tour In Tampa
30 мар 2024 :	KORN Is 'Passionately And Intensely Working On New Music': 'It's The Heaviest Stuff' We've Done 'In Years'
17 мар 2024 :	KORN Sells Out Los Angeles's BMO Stadium For 30th-Anniversary Concert
11 мар 2024 :	KORN Announces 30th-Anniversary Show At Los Angeles's BMO Stadium With EVANESCENCE, GOJIRA, SCARS ON BROADWAY
23 фев 2024 :	KORN's RAY LUZIER: 'We're Not Afraid To Experiment And Try New Things'
26 дек 2023 :	Watch: KORN's JONATHAN DAVIS Talks About Collaboration With ADIDAS, Love For The Three-Stripes
20 окт 2023 :	KORN Officially Announces Collaboration With ADIDAS
19 сен 2023 :	New Music From KORN Coming In 2024, Says BRIAN 'HEAD' WELCH
19 июн 2023 :	KORN – 2007 Album Untitled To Be Released On Deluxe Vinyl
5 фев 2023 :	KORN Releases 'Requiem Mass' EP
19 янв 2023 :	KORN Announces 'Follow The Leader' 25th-Anniversary Makeup Set
1 дек 2022 :	KORN's RAY LUZIER Launches 'Studio Drum Cam Series' On YouTube
25 окт 2022 :	FIELDY Says He Has 'No Problem' With The Other Members Of KORN: 'We're Just In Different Places Right Now'
5 сен 2022 :	KORN's RAY LUZIER: Why It's Important For Musicians To Learn Business Side Of Music Business
1 сен 2022 :	Watch: KORN Performs Without MUNKY In Wantagh, New York
21 авг 2022 :	Watch: EVANESCENCE's AMY LEE Joins KORN On Stage In Denver To Perform 'Freak On A Leash'

12 мар 2025

BRIAN 'HEAD' WELCH On Rejoining KORN In 2013: 'I Was Given A Second Chance To Be A Rock Star In A Healthy Way'

In a brand new interview with Jackson, Mississippi's Rock 93.1 radio station, KORN guitarist Brian "Head" Welch — a former drug addict and reformed Christian — spoke about what it was like rejoining the band in early 2013, eight years after first leaving the group. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "I was on tour with P.O.D. [in 2012] I was opening for them with my other band. And they had a festival and KORN was playing, [as was] EVANESCENCE, all these bands. My daughter was with me. She was 12. So I surprised her. I was, like, 'I'm gonna jump on P.O.D.'s bus and go to the festival,' because we had a day off. My band wasn't playing. P.O.D. tour just happened to go by that festival to play real quick. And we went in, and I was, like, 'This is crazy,' 'cause I hadn't really seen the guys. I'd seen Jonathan [Davis, KORN singer] a month before that. He came to watch me sing in my band. I'm, like, 'This is horrible. I can barely sing live and here's one of the best singers out there watching me.' And I was so nervous and embarrassed. But we hadn't seen each other in seven years or something, so we just cried and said hello. And then, at that festival, I was just gonna be kind of low key, maybe say hi to him after. But word got around that I was there, and I went and saw 'em. They said, 'Come do the meet-and-greet with us.' So I went and said hi to fans. And then they said, 'Play some songs with us.' I was, like, 'No, man. I don't remember all the parts. I need pedals.' And they said, 'Just play one. Play 'Blind' with us.' I was, like, 'Cool.' And I played it, and the whole place just… It was just this emotional thing led by Jonathan, 'cause he had his brothers that he knew since childhood on stage. So he broke down and told the crowd, 'I need a minute.' Then he came to me and said, 'If this is the last memory you gave me, thank you for this memory.' 'Cause he didn't think, 'Oh, this is it. He's coming back.' Or he didn't probably know if he wanted me back. But I left in such a horrible way that… It wasn't horrible — it was bitter. And we were all on drugs except Jonathan, which is funny, but were all on drugs or alcohol — we were all on both — and so when I left, it was really ugly. And so I felt it was closure to do that one show with them. And I'm, like, 'Okay, cool. I'm gonna go rough and tough it on the side and barely make it, and that's cool. And I'm good with that.' And I feel like that's what a lot of the people in the Bible did; they didn't have it all easy. And then I was at home and I remember just that Christ inside of you that came to reveal that."

Brian continued: "There's seasons in my life where I just go deep and I try to connect, when I have a lot of time off or whatever. And after all that stuff happened, I connected. And I remember I had this few weeks at home where he felt so close to me. And it was one of the longest seasons of experiencing that closeness with Christ. And that's when he unfolded things to me, like start breaking kind of religion off of me. Like, 'You don't have to do exactly what the disciples did in the Bible and make your life miserable.' And that's when Munky [James Shaffer, KORN guitarist] called me. And he said, 'Hey, we're doing a new album. No pressure. You wanna come down to see what happens? No expectation, nothing.' I was, like, 'Thank you, man, so much, but I feel like I wanna go this other way.' And he goes, 'If you change your mind, call us. It's good to see you.' And then I was at home for a few more days, and I remembered this guy from South Africa came to me in 2006 and he said there's gonna be a reconciliation with the guys. And he said there's gonna be a call from James. And I still have that recording to this day. Some guy that saw things. And so I didn't do it because of that, but it did make me curious — a lot more curious. I did it because I was just praying and I felt like God was, like… A lot of people, all they know is the horrible religion. There's mean street preachers outside of KORN concerts and a lot of fans just know that. Now what can I do to go show love? And so I start opening up, and boom. I called them. We agreed on all kinds of different things — there were just a few things we discussed. And there it was. And next thing you know, I'm in the studio writing with them, and we're looking at each other and I was, like, 'This is really gonna happen, huh?' And he was, like, 'Yeah, it's on. This is crazy.' And so I realized that a whole new door opened and my whole life was changed.'

Welch added: "And so going back into it — the last thing I'll say — I was so drunk and messed up when I left for years. I had to relearn what it was like to be on stage in that big a capacity tour and do a record, do press, start doing more TV, all that stuff. It was like I forgot the past. It was cloudy — it was very cloudy — 'cause I was so messed up. So it was, like, I was given a second chance to be a rock star in a healthy way. [I'm] very grateful."

Asked what the ripple effect has been since he rejoined KORN, Welch said: "It's just so clean around the atmosphere of KORN. We just have so much honor and respect for each other. It's, like, everybody listens to each other. Now Jonathan, as you know, is like the quarterback, so we follow his lead a lot. But me and James are all about the business part of it. Jonathan wants nothing to do with it. He's, like, 'You guys go do that. It's stressing me out.' But creatively, in the studio and everything, we all honor and work together. And if there's something that we need to change or do on the road or in the studio or something, even Jonathan, he'll hear us and listen. And we've just got massive respect. And Ray [Luzier], the drummer, he's just never a problem — ever. And [bassist] Fieldy's [Reginald Arvizu] been out of the band since, like, 2020, and he's just focusing on family. So we got this guy, [Roberto] 'Ra' Díaz, another amazing South American guy [with the] coolest accent ever. Very, very humble. And so it just feels really clean and mature. And it's all about this band that we created and keeping it going, growing it and rocking out with the fans. It's all about the fans. There's no groupies. There's no drugs. There's no partying backstage. Our drummer is the only one that drinks, and he drinks wine. He gets purple teeth every night at, like, 1 a.m. So that's as crazy as it gets. It's all about the show."

Welch chronicled his decision to leave KORN in his first book, 2008's "Save Me From Myself: How I Found God, Quit Korn, Kicked Drugs, And Lived To Tell My Story".

Both Welch and Arvizu have had highly public, though separate, conversion experiences, ones that have been greeted with a certain amount of skepticism.

Fieldy's 2009 memoir, "Got The Life: My Journey Of Addiction, Faith, Recovery And Korn", detailed his struggles with drug and alcohol addiction during KORN's early years and how he became a born-again Christian to help get his life together and get sober.

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