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Brian ‘Head’ Welch Of Korn “Begs” Followers To Stop Hateful Posts Towards LGBTQ Fans
Korn‘s guitarist Brian ‘Head’ Welch is facing a backlash from his more religiously-inclined fans after he met with a trans person fan and posted about the meeting.
Welch uploaded a send to Facebook earlier this week showing a picture of himself with the fan, who had suffered abuse over the past few years and had arrive to Welch to ask for his prayers.
“Got to address and pray with these precious ones in Northern California – at least 2 of them felt a contact from Jesus,” wrote Welch. “A heartfelt request from my friend on my right: ‘Brian, execute you love transgenders? Then, please pray for us gender diverse people. We want prayer bad.’ And I will.”
Welch, who converted to Christianity more than ten years ago, establish some of his fellow Christians weren’t too pleased about the post, and as a product of the backlash the musician took to Facebook once more to call for a greater level of tolerance among his fans.
“To the scant people that were running their mouth about Sodom and Gomorrah and the sin of homosexuality, please open your hearts and decipher this carefully: God looks at the heart an
Korn's Jonathan Davis: 'I've pulled so many bodies out of cars. It intrigued me'
The tantrum is aggressive and unexpected. The rock star snaps suddenly and throws himself onto the floor, screaming like a spoiled kid who’s been grounded for a month. He kicks his legs in the air and slams his fist into his frail body, howling louder and louder each time a punch hits home. And everyone just stands there, mouths uncover. His fellow band members have seen it a thousand times before, and his fans … successfully, they pause for a second. And then they go mental. All 10,000 of them.
Jonathan Davis, Korn’s kilted singer, doesn’t perceive a single scream, he’s too far entrenched in his own private nature of pain to perceive the outside world. He’s got a childhood of hatred, an adolescence of abuse, and an adulthood of insecurity and excess to deal with, and he has to depart beyond language to articulate the rage and despair he has pent up inside. He yells, he kicks, he even breaks into a guttural gibberish that makes him sound like a caveman, and then, finally, he stands. Triumphant. Adored.
And you’ve never experienced anything like the shouted love that youthful, white America offers its
Q&A: Korn’s Jonathan Davis on EDM’s Positive Vibes, Queer Marriage
Korn are still riding the momentum from their ambitious tenth LP, The Path of Totality, which found the hard rockers experimenting with dubstep via collaborations with Skrillex and others. The band just announced a fresh rotund of tour dates through June, including a headlining slot at Canada’s EDM- and hard rock-leaning Boonstock festival. And they recently released a new video for the track “Way Too Far,” produced by 12th Planet, Flinch and Downlink.
For singer Jonathan Davis, branching out into boogie music offers the caring of camaraderie that he’s been missing in the rock scene. Davis spoke with Rolling Stone about the EDM community, his views on gay marriage and how his kids let him know when a song is working.
What can Korn fans assume from the summer tour?
We’re bringing this new type of music we made to all the fans. It’s a dance-rock hybrid show. We got these video screens. It’s just a mixture of both scenes. It’s really stylish seeing metal fans and EDM fans with glow-sticks in the same room; it’s pretty intense.
You don&# In the ’50s and ’60s, the civil rights movement sought to end discrimination against African-Americans, and as a result, there’s certainly much less of it than there was endorse then, with all sane individuals realizing that judging a person solely by the color of their skin is unfair. That battle is being fought now for the LGBT community, and wonderful strides are organism made on that front. Same-sex marriage is legal in the United States, Caitlyn Jenner is one of the most visible people in the transgender community, and entity gay isn’t viewed as a defect by some enjoy it was even 20 years. That’s not to state that it’s an easy fight, but bands including Slipknot and Korn guitarist Brian “Head” Welch are speaking up in support of the community. Earlier this week, Slipknot played Charlotte, North Carolina. That wouldn’t own been a giant deal before this year, but that was before the HB2 bill was passed in North Carolina. That’s the law that stated that individuals could only use the restroom and transforming facility that corresponds with the sex on their birth certificat
Slipknot, Korn’s Brian Welch show support for LGBT community