Guitarist Brian “Head” Welch gained notoriety more than a decade ago when he became a Christian and quit the metal band Korn, and then made headlines again when he rejoined the band in 2012.
Welch says in a new video that God guided him back into Korn so he could impact others for Christ.
“I know the music’s crazy, but mainly the lyrics are about pain,” Welch says in the video for the non-profit I Am Second organization. “And they’re coming from a real and raw place. People need hope. There’s addictions like crazy in that world. There’s depression. It’s been a lot of suicide stories happening. What better place [for me] to be, having the meaning of life that I carry? You know, I know the answer for the meaning of life.
“It’s not the most popular thing to do at a rock concert is talk about Christ. I’m doing it because it’s the most realest thing that’s ever happened to me in my life.”
Welch, though, still believes it was best for him to quit the band before rejoining it. The separation helped prepare him to be a witness in the world of metal, he says.
“It’s like when a baby’s born, it needs to be in a sterile environment where everything’s pure around the baby, right? — for a period of time until it can go start touching thing,” Welch said. “And so that’s kind of the same thing spiritually, where you’ve got to go away in a…
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