FORMER KORN GUITARIST BRIAN HEAD WELCH NEW SINGLE OUT NOW
Former Korn guitarist Brian Head Welch released his new single “Paralyzed” this past Tuesday, October 4th. The yet untitled full length album will be coming out 2012. Welch recently signed with heavyweight management firm Union Entertainment Group (Nickelback, Hinder).
You can listen to the new single at this link http://soundcloud.com/brian-head-welch/brian-head-welch-paralyzed/s-iWe97.
BRIAN “HEAD” WELCH, was born June 19, 1970 and grew up in Bakersfield, California. He found his calling at age eleven when he picked up his first guitar. Voracious practicing and a steady diet of hard rock classics filled in the ensuing years, and shortly after high school, he co-founded a metal band named Korn. The band soon became a Grammy award-winning, multi-platinum force that shot to the top tier of the rock world and dominated the new metal movement of the late Nineties. Korn’s 1998 Follow the Leader album cemented the band as rock titans when they debuted at number one on the Billboard charts, fighting off new releases from mainstream heavyweights Dr. Dre and Celine Dion. For his efforts with Korn, Head received six Grammy nominations, winning two, while selling some 40 million records worldwide.
As Korn continued to reach new creative and commercial heights, Head found himself drowning in the excesses of rock and roll. Far from immune to the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Head became addicted to crystal meth, spiraling out of control even as he continued to sell millions of albums. He gamely but unsuccessfully tried to balance his career and his obligations as a single father to his daughter Jennea. In 2005, he finally resigned from Korn and turned to Christianity, dedicating his life to giving his gifts to those most desperately in need. Just months after his Korn exodus, Head traveled to India to open up his first “Head Home,” an orphanage that provides housing, food, and education to some 200 orphans in the most unreachable parts of India. His philanthropic efforts continue to give relief to those in need throughout the United States and other parts of the world.
Though no longer a part of Korn, Head was not retired from music. His new single “Paralyzed” was released on Oct. 4th with a new E.P. scheduled to be released early 2012.
Having achieved so much after hitting such emotionally-pulverizing lows, Head realized that an honest, no-holds-barred account of his life before and after Korn could be a tremendous benefit to those struggling with substance abuse, despair, and crises of faith. To that end, he penned his 2007 autobiography, Save Me from Myself (HarperCollins). The book quickly landed on the New York Times bestseller list, inspiring him to follow it up with a second and third book, Washed by Blood (2008, HarperCollins) and Stronger: Forty Days of Metal and Spirituality (HarperCollins).
Head continues to create explosive music, pursue his wide-ranging philanthropic missions and to strive to be the best father he can be for his beloved daughter.
Source: http://brianheadwelch.net/
