Brian 'Head' Welch Promotes Best-Selling Conversion Story
Brian “Head” Welch, ex-guitarist rock band Korn, will make a rare public appearance next month to promote his memoir, Save Me From Myself: How I Found God, Quit Korn, Kicked Drugs, and Lived to Tell My Story.
by Anne Thomas
Posted: Wednesday, July 25, 2007, 8:30 (BST)
Brian “Head” Welch, ex-guitarist for rock band Korn will make a rare public appearance next month to promote his memoir, Save Me From Myself: How I Found God, Quit Korn, Kicked Drugs, and Lived to Tell My Story.
After only one week, the book has become one of the top 20 books on the New York Times Bestsellers list.
Save Me From Myself: How I Found God, Quit Korn, Kicked Drugs, and Lived to Tell My Story, released on July 7 (7/7/07), is a reflection of the ex-band member’s dramatic conversion story. In it, he shows how God can work inside even a hardcore rocker.
"The enthusiasm from Korn's early days was gone. I just sat there in so much dark depression,” writes Welch in his new book. “How did I get here?...Why is my life such a nightmare?...It felt like I was under a curse, honestly. I was stuck. And it didn't look like I was ever going to get out."
For more than a decade, the founding member of Korn played as lead guitarist and garnered huge success in mainstream music. The band's CDs went platinum, they won multiple Grammys, and Welch amassed incredible wealth. Beneath all that, however, the musician felt trapped.
In 2005, at a 10,000-person concert people in Bakersfield, California, Welch shocked millions of his fans around the world by telling them he had found God and that he was leaving the band.
As part of his newly released book, Welch explains the evolution of Korn and how his life ended up in so much pain. He also relives his greatest difficulty: an addiction to meth that he could not break, even with the birth of his first daughter.
Only through God was he able to kick the habit, which he says proved the Lord’s true existence to him.
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Added: Sunday, December 9, 2007, 3:26 (GMT)
What a brave and rewarding step you took..Im just so proud to be a Christian and want to encourage you to hold on to Jesus.. He is our Saviour King , and indeed mighty to Save. Be blessed and I know your greatest sorrows and stuggles is already your biggest victories and can only shock people into realization that there is a King.
God He Reigns!
Peet Schutte, Vereeniging, South-Africa
Added: Tuesday, December 4, 2007, 3:40 (GMT)
please forward this to Brian "head' Welch
Just a few words of encouragement. After hearing about you and watching a couple of your interviews I want to say you have to be one of the bravest men in the world. Keep on moving forward. It is worth it. You seem to have found special favor in the eyes of our Saviour. Do not be surprised at the opposition you may have to face. I am feeling the manifested presence of GOD as I write this. If only the others could feel and experience what you have.
randy dias, pasadena tx.
Added: Wednesday, July 25, 2007, 19:53 (BST)
Thanks for your coverage of Brian "Head" Welch and his conversion to Christ.
Dr BLT, Bakersfield, CA
