Korn guitarist Brian “Head” Welch has never been shy about his faith, but his latest videos show a man who’s done some serious soul searching.
In a new two minute clip uploaded to YouTube this week, Welch questions the way Christianity is being practised in the U.S., suggesting that many self professed believers have strayed far from what they preach.
“I had a thought,” he begins, before firing off a string of what ifs that cut deep:
“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?”
The post continues a growing trend in Welch’s recent online activity. Over the past year, he’s shared multiple videos dissecting the state of modern Christianity, highlighting hypocrisy, manipulation, and division within the faith. Since April 2025, Welch has been re sharing older interviews alongside clips of ICE related violence and political unrest, using his platform to challenge what he sees as the weaponisation of religion.
In one of his more recent uploads on November 2, he elaborated further:
“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.”
Welch argues that faith, at its core, should empower, not oppress.
“He [Christ] leads you by kindness, he leads you to acknowledge your flaws, and then he empowers you to lay those flaws down,” he said.
Remaining hopeful
In the same breath, Welch condemned centuries of religious corruption but expressed hope for a cultural shift:
“Religion is corrupting this world… but there’s a lot of people waking up to the true fact of relationship. Especially in the last 20 years, I see so many people latch on to the real.”
Since returning to Korn in 2013 after an eight year hiatus battling addiction, Welch has walked a fine line between metal icon and spiritual messenger. Now, he seems determined to strip faith of politics and reclaim it as something personal, compassionate, and real.
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