Brian 'Head' Welch Returns with New Book 'With My Eyes Wide Open: Miracles and Mistakes on My Way Back to KoRn'
NASHVILLE, April 4, 2016 /
Christian Newswire/ -- He left KoRn to help himself. He went back to help others. And along the way, he nearly lost everything.
Musician and New York Times bestselling author Brian "Head" Welch made headlines in 2005 when he became a Christian and abandoned heavy metal super-group KoRn after a very personal spiritual encounter he had at his home in California. With My Eyes Wide Open: Miracles and Mistakes On My Way Back To KoRn--due out May 17, 2016 from Nelson Books--is the guitarist's account of the brutal, eye-opening eight years he spent as a single Dad after leaving KoRn, leading up to his controversial decision to rejoin the band in 2013 and reconcile with the tribe of people he once considered family in the metal music scene.
"I was steadfast in my belief that God was up to something good--even when everything seemed to be falling apart," he writes.
Welch's very public and disruptive conversion not only inspired him to leave a life of unbelievable excess with the band he helped found, but also gave him the strength he needed to overcome addictions to cocaine, alcohol, pills, as well as the drug that would almost completely destroy his life: meth amphetamines. Nevertheless, his instinct for bad decisions lingered, and what followed was a near decade-long trial by fire--from the perils of fathering a teen lost in depression and self-mutilation to the harsh realities of playing solo and surviving financial ruin--this intensely inspiring redemption saga is unlike any other.
"The past ten years haven't always been easy, in fact some of it has been totally excruciating," Welch writes, "But through it all, Jesus has remained faithful. In spite of all my attacks, trials, persecutions, failings, meltdowns, and mistakes, he has never once abandoned me. And he never will."
Told with humor and no-holds-barred frankness, the raw and brutally honest follow-up to Welch's 2007 bestseller, Save Me From Myself, will appeal to a wide range of readers. Though his story is wild, hilarious and deeply poignant, the message is simple: God will love you into the freedom you crave, as long as you keep the relationship going and never, ever quit.
"To me, believing in Christ isn't about trying to be good and following the rules," Welch writes. "Its way more amazing than that. We all have the opportunity to share God's divine nature firsthand (2 Peter 1:4), and that is a truth that is beyond staggering."
