Suicidal Tendencies bassist Ra Diaz to fill in for Fieldy on Korn’s summer time tour
Korn have introduced that Suicidal Tendencies bassist Roberto ‘Ra’ Díaz can be filling in for Reginald ‘Fieldy’ Arvizu all through their forthcoming summer time tour.
The information comes following final month’s revelation that Fieldy can be taking an prolonged hiatus from Korn, citing a have to handle “dangerous habits” that had “brought on some pressure with the individuals round [him]”.
Sharing the announcement right this moment (June 12) on their Fb web page, the band wrote: “We recognize your type phrases of help in response to the current tour replace about Fieldy. Whereas our brother takes a while to heal, we needed to let that we’re bringing our pal Ra Diaz from Suicidal Tendencies out with us this summer time to fill in on Korn bass duties.
“We’ve all been rehearsing to get able to deliver the warmth, and we will’t wait to see you subsequent month.”
We recognize your type phrases of help in response to the current tour replace about Fieldy. Whereas our brother takes…
Posted by Korn on Monday, July 12, 2021
Ra has performed bass in Suicidal Tendencies since 2016, when he changed Michael Morgan because the Californian thrash metallic outfit’s twelfth bassist.
Fieldy, however, has been with Korn for the reason that quintet’s 1993 inception. He took an identical pause from touring with Korn in 2017, at which level he was changed by Tye Trujillo, the 12-year-old son of Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo.
Although he now performs alongside Noah Weiland (the son of Stone Temple Pilots singer Scott Weiland) in Blu Weekend, Trujillo not too long ago expressed an curiosity in filling Fieldy’s footwear as soon as extra. “In the event that they’re , I’m clearly greater than all the way down to go play with them,” he mentioned in an interview with The Blairing Out With Eric Blair Present.
Korn are set to embark on their 34-date North American tour – which features a headlining stop-in at Kentucky’s Louder Than Life pageant – in a matter of days, kicking off in Grand Rapids, Michigan this Friday (July 16). Full particulars of the tour will be discovered on their website.
The band are additionally on account of seem at subsequent 12 months’s Obtain Pageant within the UK, with a slate of European tour dates lined up from Could by way of July 2022.