Here Today... Gone To Hell!

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. -- A founding member of Korn is leaving the band to focus on his religious beliefs. "Korn has parted ways with guitarist Brian `Head' Welch, who has chosen Jesus Christ as his savior, and will be dedicating his musical pursuits to that end," said a statement posted Tuesday on Korn's Web site.

Welch told The Bakersfield Californian that his decision might be surprising to some. "A lot of people think I'm crazy. I don't care."

Welch said he'd become increasingly disenchanted with producing heavy metal music that invokes dark and morbid images.

"Those guys in the band, they're not bad guys. They're just a bunch of kids getting marketed how these guys in the big corporate firms want to do," Welch said.

"It makes us look like bad people, but we're really just a bunch of kids who never had a chance to grow up."

Korn is working on its eighth album, set for release later this year. The band's self-titled 1994 debut album sold more than 2 million copies.

Source: MSN

Jesus Saves eh?

That's great. It's nice to see someone be true to their beliefs, even if it means giving up fame and fortune.

At what point do u view someone's actions as just odd?

It's not like he quit to join a religious cult. That would be different. He just wasn't happy making that kind of music anymore. And he found something that fulfilled him more than the band he was in.

I can't beleive these bozos have 7 albums out

Fair enough - over here in secular UK if ''celebrities'' do stuff like this everyone has a good laugh. It's such an American thing to do, find jesus and then go running off with him

I doubt Jesus cares what style of music you play....

I'm just glad he didn't stay and turn Korn into a christian rock act :hihi:

Had he left around 1995 he would've been giving up fame and fortune.  Every Korn album has at least gone platinum so at this point he's sacrificing nothing but a couple more million to add to the already hefty pile.  I'm sure that made his decision a little easier.

Since 1994...  :P

Axl should pay attention to that - some bands have managed a huge discography of excellent material in the time Axl took to sort out who he didn't want in his band....

....except Korn has never managed to put forth anything even close to "excellent."  :P

Well, the debut album was groundbreaking, but never mind that.

I could record myself repeatedly inserting a microphone into my ass while John Mayer and a polka band supply the music, and that'd probably be pretty groundbreaking too.

I'll take excellent over groundbreaking any day.

No it wouldn't. It would be stupid. Are you stupid?

The fact that my doing that would be stupid wouldn't mean it'd be any less groundbreaking. Not unlike Korn, who are stupid *and*, arguably, groundbreaking. They don't have to be one or the other.

No, I'm not stupid. But thanks for implying.

Edit: To actually comment on the original topic a little, no matter how I feel about their music, I think it's cool that he isn't associating himself with music that he doesn't believe in. That's commendable.

I thought that a guitarist in Korn finding Jesus and leaving the band was pretty funny, personally.  :hihi:

Not that I argue with his right to follow his beliefs, it just seems so odd and unexpected.  In a Spinal Tap kind of way.

Still, I'm a little bewildered by his claim that he also left the band because he didn't agree with the direction their music was taking.  Downtuned metal songs where Jonathan Davis whines and growls about his lousy childhood?  Korn's been doing that on every album.

msn also said blink 182 have split up because they had a little argument

Aren't u forgeting 'IMHO'

'Follow the leader' is for me an astounding album, and Freak on a leash is possibly my fav metal track.

Good for him  :D

He's only just noticed.  What a crock of shit.

Let's hope this is the end.  It would take a guitarist like Buckethead to come in to make Korn sound remotely good.

MTV.com is reporting that guitarist Brian "Head" Welch, a founding member of KORN, has left the band and has rededicated his life to Christianity, according to the group's management.

"KORN has parted ways with guitarist Brian 'Head' Welch, who has chosen Jesus Christ as his savior, and will be dedicating his musical pursuits to that end," a statement from the band reads. "KORN respects Brian's wishes, and hopes he finds the happiness he's searching for."

The announcement puts to rest weeks of rumors that Welch was unhappy with KORN's direction. On February 8, he had apparently written a "letter of resignation" to the band's management. In the note, Welch detailed a long list of reasons for leaving the band, including increased moral objections to KORN's music and videos. In particular, he was upset by how he was portrayed in the clip for their cover of CAMEO's "Word Up", off their recently released "Greatest Hits, Vol. 1" album. In the video, Welch's face was superimposed on a dog patrolling a strip club.

Welch plans on further explaining his decision to leave KORN this coming Sunday, when he'll address the congregation at the Valley Bible Fellowship in Bakersfield, California. And on February 28 he plans to leave for Israel.

KORN are currently in the studio working on a new record, which is due in stores in September.


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 :rofl:

Genuis

Maybe I'm not following; are you actually sad about his departure?

I'm not exactly sure as to who he was in the band...
Is he the guy who played that one growly chord or the guy who played those 3 irritating squealy notes?

Would they ever be able to replace this talent? ::)

Sad? Of course not, i find it funny - hence why all my posts reflect that, i wasn't trying to trick u all by posting one thing and meaning something else :confused:

So do you or don't you like Korn? ???. I admit freak on a leash was catchy but anything else I heard from them I wasn't to fond of? :no:

 :smoking: Izzy? :smoking:

If I had several million dollars in bank account and  super fab amount royalties steadily flowing in I would try all sorts of stupid shit aswell.

Speaking of Korn, a random easter egg friend of mine pointed out:
The cover of Follow The Leader is a painting of a horde of kids walking  down from the cliff.2 of these kids look ALOT like Axl&Slash. Tophat and all.

Follow The Leader was produced by Steve Thompson  who was also involved with the procuction of Appetite For Destruction(Assistant Engineer)at the early stages  of his career.

I said so here:



I just don't care if some wacko wants out of the band - Korn have probably had a million members anyway.

I beg to differ.


 :nervous:

Id sooner point to The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, or Zeppelin as examples of this.


Trendsetting and innovative - okay.  But groundbreaking?  Slow down...

On topic, I dont give a shit because I dont like Korn.  But I do find stories like this fascinating and humorous.  Good luck to the guy.

"Groundbreaking?"? Uuuuuuummmm.........no.

Korn was like Limp Bizkit's 3 Dollar Bill Y'all, a momentary flash-in-the pan hoorah.

And a distasteful one at that.? :P

OK, so no one died and made me the official Korn advocate of HTGTH. The thing that annoys me here is that slagging off Korn is like shooting fish in a barrel. It's too easy. And yes, I've been one of those people since '98, which is when I stopped listening to them. But thinking objectively, back in '95/'96 when I first heard the debut album, it really was something special. To really understand it, you have to go back to that time. It's a such a different world - there was no nu-metal back then. No bias. In my book, Korn's selftitled can be compared to Rage Against The Machine's s/t, even if it is a lot worse. They're still both groundbreaking, quality albums, no matter what you hippies say.

As for Limp Bizkit.. ew, I never liked a single one of their songs, and I think they shouldn't even be mentioned in the same paragraph as Korn. Like it or not, Jon Davis is actually a pretty talented singer (or at least used to be, as far as I know he sucks live nowadays).

What I find amusing is that a lot of people here are into horrific bands like M?tley Crue, and the consensus is that it's alright. Ain't that a laugh.

Thats the point - RATM was doing a similar thing at the same time, perhaps earlier.  So Korns album isnt exactly groundbreaking when bands like Faith No More, Anthrax, RATM, and even the Beastie Boys to an extent covered similar ground earlier.

Keep your retarded opinions to yourself, jackass!!

i msuper happy he found jesus... very good for him, i know it was a big help when i found him, but i dont know if it was necessary to quit the whole band... i mean i knwo their music is basically dark and gloomy, but you could like, change it around... not to christin music, just not as brutal and stupid and gothic anymore

Good point, but maybe he's just using God as an excuse for leaving the band and music in general. Maybey he wants to explore other music or start a solo career without insulting the rest of the band? ??? Then again maybey not

 :smoking: Izzy? :smoking:

What a brilliant post. And what a waste of fucking space you are.

Fair enough.

For the record, I love Rage Against the Machine.  In my opinion, they were the only rock/rap band that actually worked.

And since we're on the record, Motley Crue kick ass!

im actually gonna totally agree with you 100%... i thought korn's contribution to music is far better than motely crue's... adn i wont even start on limp bizkit

Well, no argument there. A lot of people here like shitty bands. Bands like Motley Crue, Whitesnake... And Korn. I'm not going to over-think it and compare and contrast each band's shittiness. My point was that being groundbreaking doesn't mean much, if it isn't good music to begin with. I'd say even Motley Crue were fairly groudbreaking for their time.

I guess you do have a point there, but then again since "good music" is a question of personal opinion, I don't think we could all agree on that many albums worthy of the title..

U don't actually believe that...do u?

At best they were improving on the cock rock formulae of Van Halen - at worst they were just pop-metal that managed a few more hits than the other hair metal bands they were so alike

I like the Crue, but c'mon, they haven't brought anything new to the table.

Well, I'm no Motley Crue fan, and I know they didn't reinvent the wheel, but they perfected the basic hair metal formula that was used for almost 10 years after that. The hair, the makeup, the music that didn't go any further than "sex, drugs, and rock & roll", the spinning drum kits and whatnot. Motley Crue were to 80s hair metal what Korn is to moden nu metal.. But even if you don't think they were groundbreaking, that was just a side comment. It didn't have a lot to do with my main point..

Please tell me something, Who in the FUCK says Rock N' Roll lyrics have to be serious? And really, who gives a shit about reinventing the wheel? 

well it fucking helps if theyre serious, i got sick of hearing about sex, drugs and rock n roll when i turned 15

Idiot

I suppose u haven't listened to AFD since then eh? Cos that's not 12 tracks about sex drugs n roll....oh wait, yes it is! ::)

yeah but it aint as good as UYI II ohs yeah!

I don't know. I think there's a difference between Motley Crue "sex, drugs, and rock & roll" music and GNR "sex, drugs, and rock & roll" music. The first is basically "I'm gonna do drugs and fuck some girl! Rock & roll!", and the second is "These drugs are killing me. I hate the girl that I'm fucking. And this city's making me miserable. Rock & roll!"... And in my opinion, I think one's more relevant than the other...

I think it's a very good thing that Korn's guitar player quit and found Jesus. After all, after the rapture, when all the good, God-fearing Christians vanish into heaven, it would be a shame if this guy suddenly disappeared on stage in front of millions of fans, leaving the band without a guitarist.

Most definitely. You'd have to be a dolt not to see the difference.

Fish on Fridays wasn't on the Korn rider - that's the real reason

Actually he was Baptised today

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20050306/D88LCS880.html

That right there proves there is no God.

He might as well just rejoin the band.

Ah who gives a fuck if he left the band ? KoRn sucks more than gay PoRn. I used to listen to that band when I was in middle school, which i regret. They're the most least metal act that is still called metal.

1) they invite rappers on their albums
2) no guitar solos
3) their lyrics are nothing but "poor me shit," on all the albums , they have the same subject over and over.

Heavy Metal's supposed to have some balls! >:(

I remember when they annouced that they were going to release a cover of "Brick in the Wall" by Pink Floyd, this dude on tv said "finally Korn admit's they have no education, they can't even spell thier name right ." :hihi:

Well anyway I'm going to make money selling my korn albums and band t-shirts, so post all your angry comments while I improve my wallet selling this worthless crap. :yes:

Fans perhaps?

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Nice use of language there :hihi:


The horror! ::)


Think there is a little more to good music than solo's.....



Yeah and no other band manages that - oh wait, they all do. Look at lyrics by any other band, they are all a variation on the same theme


Not sure u can get any heavier, any more 'metal' than Korn without it losing melody entirely

Or better yet something constructive and sensible : ok:

It took a wnile to make it official....it sucks for KoRn because Head was the coolest member. Anyway, good luck to him.