Korn guitarist Brian “Head” Welch recently showed some love to current alternative metal stars Deftones. In the below newly posted video on his social media, Welch can be seen wearing a Deftones x Dickies throwback shirt — a long-bootlegged design Deftones officially resurrected last fall. Welch also busted out an acoustic guitar for a brief cover of Deftones‘ 2x platinum 1997 single “My Own Summer (Shove It)” in the clip.
He ended the video with a shot of himself hanging with Israel Arvizu, son of ‘retired’ Korn bassist Reginald “Fieldy” Arvizu. Israel has followed in his father’s footstep, playing bass in nü-metal outfit PlaYuH. Below you can watch him pick up where his dad left off, handling the low end duties on a cover of Korn‘s 1996 track “No Place To Hide“.
While Korn and Deftones were nearly inseparable in the mid to late 90s, Deftones sought to break free of the nü-metal trappings with 2000’s “White Pony“. That desire to establish an identity all their own led the band to distance themselves from Korn, Limp Bizkit and more. That past tension has been covered extensively in the past.
Back in 2017, Welch himself lamented the rift of sorts that grew between Korn and Deftones, stating of Deftones vocalist/guitarist Chino Moreno, “Chino, Chino don’t like Korn or any of us man. He won’t tour with Korn ’cause we’re not cool enough for him.’ Welch further stated in that interview:
“I think they [Deftones] got too cool for us somewhere down the line. No but, he just said some stuff recently in the press and it got out there that [he wouldn’t tour with Korn] and then all these fans hit him and said [Welch made an angry expression] so the next day he was like ‘I love Korn, I want to tour with them next year.'”
Of course, as fans of both outfits are likely well aware, that tour has yet to materialize. Whether or not the two outfits have fully patched things up behind the scenes is unclear, but members of the two outfits have hung out together in the years since Welch‘s comments.
