Korn Guitarist Brian 'Head' Welch Gets Personal About Almost Dying From Addiction

In 2013, Korn fans everywhere rejoiced at the news that founding guitarist Brian "Head" Welch had returned almost a decade after his abrupt exit. The band quickly made magic with The Paradigm Shift, their 11th album, and kept touring the world. Now, in Head's third book, With My Eyes Wide Open: Miracles & Mistakes on My Way Back to Korn, we're getting the full story of everything that happened in between.

Head's struggles with addiction amid the backstage culture of drugs and alcohol brought things to a head in 2005. "I almost died from it. I had my methamphetamine dealers sending me eight-balls to whatever country I was in," he tells us in the interview above. "Who does that?"