“I had a thought,” Korn‘s Brian “Head” Welch says as he starts a 2-minute video that was posted to YouTube just a few hours ago (as transcribed by Blabbermouth), “What if all of the judgmental Christian religious base are completely wrong in how they’re going about things? What if most of the political Christians are acting in the exact opposite character of how they should be? What if they’re getting it all wrong?”
This statement does come as too far of a cry from Welch‘s recent online activity. Throughout 2025, Welch has been posting several videos of him breaking down what’s happening within the Christian faith and the divide we’re seeing amongst it. The series of videos that started about seven months ago – in April of 2025 – when he started re-posting previous interviews he had done with captions acknowledging that what he was saying then is still relevant now. He has also included videos of ICE activity and violence against US citizens and legal immigrants. But, in the last two weeks, there’s been a notable uptick in activity from the Korn guitarist about religion and the role it’s currently playing in our society and what it is doing to people.
Welch continues, “What if, at the end of their life, and I hope this doesn’t happen, but what if they discover that all they did was use their faith as a weapon for division? A lot of it looks like that to me, and I’m completely sick of it, man.”
Echoing similar thoughts in a video posted to YouTube this past week on November 2nd, discussing how religion has been demonised and convoluted for all of the wrong reasons, Welch has become particularly outspoken about people’s misuse of religion: “Religion and religious people will pile on you — loads and loads of guilt. They tower over you with their self-righteousness to make you feel that you are way beneath them in order to keep you in that spirit of control over your life. I’ve seen it countless times. It’s a cancer to spirituality and chases so many people away from even the thought of a relationship with Christ….He leads you by kindness, he leads you to acknowledge your flaws, and then he empowers you to lay those flaws down.”
Welch didn’t stop there, saying, “Religion is corrupting this world; it has been for countless centuries. But there there is a lot of people waking up to the true fact of relationship, especially in the last, like, 20 years. I just see so many people latch on to the real.”
Brian “Head” Welch has been the frontman of Korn since its inception, despite leaving the group for eight years after a struggle with drug addiction from 2005 until 2013, and has often discussed how he found religion during his process of getting sober.
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