Greetings again half-glassers. I wanted to do a quick endorsement of Save Me From Myself which was originally released in 2008. This is solo debut album for Mr. Brian Welch, also known as “Head”, the lead guitarist from the seminal Nu Metal band, Korn. I myself stopped listening to Korn in 2005 when he left the band as he wrote most of the music. He separated from Korn in order to get clean and sober, and in the process became a born-again super Christian. This has been a hot button issue for many of Head’s fans as Korn’s original material is generally extremely angsty and vulgur. Head’s solo album is decidedly a Christian-themed album however he pulls it off without seeming preachy or syrup soaked.
As Head did most of the actual song writing in Korn; sonically the album is top notch. It’s extremely groove-laiden, sludgy, and low-tuned. Head continues to display his use of heavily morphed walking creep leads that gave Korn its haunting sound back in the day. Also being that he did most of live backing vocals in Korn, he is surprisingly non-jarring playing that part as well.
I’m not going to do a song by song, but this album really stood out to me since it’s a nu-metal album release almost 10 years after the height of nu-metal popularity. Many people like to look back and mock the genre but like grunge, nu-metal laid the ground for all that is heavy today. That being said, it’s a damn good first release that grabs you outta your seat. So go ahead and check it out.
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