Ex-KORN Guitarist Says Writing Solo Album Was 'Peaceful And Exciting'

July 11, 2008

The Pulse of Radio reports: Ex-KORN guitarist Brian "Head" Welch's new single, called "Flush", became available on iTunes earlier this week and is already making its way onto rock radio stations around the country. The track is taken from Welch's debut solo album, "Save Me From Myself", which has been set for release on September 9. Welch told The Pulse of Radio what it was like for him to write an entire album on his own for the first time. "You know, after three or four successful albums with the guys in KORN, I really was striving to write like, you know, to keep up the success, and it started to become not fun," he said. "So this album, I had fun and let it come to me. It was really peaceful and exciting, you know, to do it that way, and there was no pressure to be popular or nothing. I just did whatever I felt inside, you know."

Welch's album shares its title with his memoir, "Save Me from Myself: How I Found God, Quit Korn, Kicked Drugs, and Lived to Tell My Story", which was published last year.

Welch left KORN in early 2005 to devote his life to Christianity. He announced his departure from the band, as well as his embrace of Christ, in front of 10,000 people at a Bakersfield, California mega-church.

Welch said that his life as a rock star and addictions to numerous drugs were destroying his life and his relationship with his daughter.

CNN report on Head's split with KORN and his new life:

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