Korn guitarist Brian 'Head' Welch: Why I re-joined the band eight years after finding Jesus Christ

Korn guitarist Brian "Head" Welch, who quit the stage after finding Christ, said the nu metal band's completely different now and that's why he's re-joined after eight years.

The 46-year-old New York Times best-selling author of "Save Me from Myself: How I Found God, Quit Korn, Kicked Drugs" re-joined the band he co-founded with fellow guitarist and bandmate James "Munky" Shaffer in 1993 after quitting eight years ago when he became a born-again Christian and abandoned his methamphetamine addiction.

Welch said he found the band in a completely different context now compared to eight years ago, or otherwise he claimed he "would not have gone back."

"It's different now that people care about their families and want their marriages to actually not end in divorce," the guitarist told The Arizona Republic in an interview. "They want to be good dads. They aren't killing themselves anymore. And it's been really cool. Everyone is focused on the music and the fans and just keeping this band together."

Welch also described that "it kind of made sense, everything that happened" when he and Shaffer met each other again for the first time after he left the band. Welch took his teenage daughter Jennea on a rock show where Korn played for the finale. His former bandmates found out he was among the audience, so they invited him onstage where he played "Blind" and even signed autographs with them afterward.

At first, Welch said he tried to resist the temptation of going back on stage. Yet, he admitted that he started thinking more about it and that he and Shaffer, both ranked at No. 26 of Guitar World's 100 Greatest Heavy Metal Guitarists of All Time, also began to talk more.

Welch also admitted three years ago that he just felt like an "empty shell" until he went to church and "felt the love from Jesus."

"That's when I was fully satisfied. And I was totally done with everything in the world because I was satisfied inside, and I got filled up," he said in an interview.