Korn helped to shape the sound of modern metal, but not without pulling themselves apart in the process. It was back in 2005 that guitarist Brian ‘Head’ Welch acrimoniously quit the group to become a born-again Christian, sparking a war of words with frontman Jonathan Davis and beginning an uncertain, uneasy time for the nu metal giants. They got things back on track with Head’s return in 2013 for their album The Paradigm Shift, and the band told Metal Hammer how the reunion had come about.
It started when Head played in Bakersfield, where Davis lives, with his post-Korn project Love And Death and the singer’s wife forced him to go to the show. “She dragged my ass down there,” Davis said. “We hung out all night and Head was back to normal, he wasn’t into all that crazy Christian shit no more.”
