Korn recently celebrated 30 years of being a band. In 2013, Welch reunited with the band he helped cofound after taking an eight-year absence that followed his conversion to Christianity.
Welch told ChurchLeaders earlier this year that before rejoining Korn, “[God] started breaking off religious mindsets and showing me that he wasn’t afraid to leave the perfection and holiness of heaven to come down to a very dark place with a lot of corruption.”
“He just was showing me, don’t be afraid to be a light and dark. And he revealed to me through myself, through my own heart, and then through people I trusted in leadership, that he never meant for me to never go back [to Korn],” Welch said. “He just meant it wasn’t the right time. He started to reveal through counsel that the time was now. And so that’s what led to [me rejoining Korn].”
Watch the full interview below:
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