According to KoRn bassist, Reginald “Fieldy” Arvizu, the follow-up to 2007’s “Untitled” could be out “within the year”, he recently told Billboard.com. Fieldy also confirmed that the band is also continuing work on a album of cover songs.
He continued by saying that founding members Jonathan Davis and James “Munky” Shaffer, and drummer Ray Luzier have been “really banging it out” in his basement studio in Laguna Hills, Calif., coming up with “a bunch of songs” with original Korn producer Ross Robinson. He adds that “there’s nothing lyrically put down yet,” but Davis may be taking a studio on the road when Korn kicks off its tour with Avenged Sevenfold this month.
On the process of once again working with Robinson, Fieldy notes that the reunion “really brings out, like, old school KoRn. It’s heavy riffs and we’re trying to strip it down raw and get those heavy groove riffs that make you want to hop around or jump around or just go crazy. We’re going towards that.” Fieldy says Korn hoped to have a new song or two to road-test during the tour but abandoned that plan because of the plethora of material that’s been coming out during the sessions — including covers of songs such as nine inch nails’ “Head Like a Hole,” “Faith No More’s “We Care a Lot” and the Psychedelic Furs’ “Love My Way.”
The band looks to fuel their creative energy outside of the studio as the head out on tour. “We’re just going to take a little break now (from recording) and come back fresh. We’ve been home for over a year now. We really want to get out on stage. We put together a set of a lot of KoRn classic songs; I’m excited to play some of these songs we haven’t played in years.” said Fieldy.
Fieldy also has several side projects in the works. He’s nearing completion on “Surrounded By Liars,” the first album by Stillwell, his “street metal” band with rapper Q Unique and POD drummer Wuv Bernardo in which Fieldy will take on the guitar duties.
Fieldy released a memoir titled “Got the Life: My Journey of Addiction, Faith, Recovery, and Korn” last month, which delves into some dark stages of his life. “I had a lot of down time in hotels, buses and airplanes and a lot of time to think, I never did much thinking, but when I did, the ideas came for the book.” said Arvizu. “I never did much thinking, but when I did, the ideas came for the book. The most emotional part was the opening of the book, where I’m having a fight with my girlfriend who’s now my wife. The fight got so bad that I almost killed her,” he said. “The high point was towards the end of the book when my life comes together.”
