I loved music, but I found myself at the point where I wanted to die. I didn't care about life.

So everyone's happy. Early life
Welch was raised in Bakersfield California. In February 2012 Welch announced that the EP would be released under the name "Love and Death" the new moniker for his solo project.

He released his debut Christian album Save Me from Myself in 2008. 26 of Guitar World's 100 Greatest Heavy Metal Guitarists of All Time. Along with fellow Korn guitarist James "Munky" Shaffer Welch helped patent Korn's distinctive sound a mix of sirenlike shards of dissonant guitar that mimicked a turntablist's various effects and rumbling down-tuned riffing that defined the nu metal aesthetic beginning in the mid-'90s.