He’s a nu-metal icon, a guitarist and songwriter who has seen the inside of three decades as a professional musician. He’s a pioneer in the heavy music world – a word often misattributed or overused but fitting of the legendary Brian “Head” Welch – a pioneer who crashed into his career with Korn in the early ’90s, and now, at 50 years old, is welcoming some of his most fruitful professional years yet.
More specifically, he is welcoming back Love and Death, the side-project-slash-passion-project he fronts, now set to release their second full-length album,
Perfectly Preserved, next month, which has no shortage of enviable guest vocals and talent. (It even has a cover of a Justin Bieber song on it, which, why not.) Above all else, it’s a record crafted on a level that no one has heard from Love and Death before. Despite the heavy rotation of media obligations that surround an album release, Welch doesn’t falter, his focus radiating outward, his answers genuine and