Korn's Fieldy Finds Jesus

03/16/09 2:41pm

by Kate Harper (CHARTattack)

Another Korn member has gone Christian, but he's staying with the band.

Korn bassist Fieldy (real name Reginald Arvizu) has written a new book called Got The Life: My Journey Of Addiction, Faith, Recovery And Korn, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette newspaper. The book documents the bassist's struggles with drugs and alcohol and apparently contains apology letters to all the Korn members for his bad behaviour.

Fieldy claims he quit drugs and alcohol cold turkey after his father said "his dying wish was for his son to find God." He also told the Bakersfield Californian newspaper that he read Rev. Rick Warren's book, The Purpose Driven Life, after his father died. That led to his conversion to Christianity.

"I talk to people who go to rehab, and they get this AA book that they've got to read every day — really thick book," Fieldy told the Post-Gazette. "They go through all these 12 steps and do all this and that. It's crazy how everybody can sit and talk about rehab, but if I come to say Christ was my rehab, it's not cool to say that.

"For me, that's my rehab. That's what happened with me and it's an amazing and powerful thing."

Fieldy writes in the book that he used to "eat food off other people's used room-service trays." He also apparently had a habit of intimidating anyone around him if they didn't do what he wanted and had a habit of abusing women he had relationships with.

Former Korn guitarist Brian "Head" Welch left the band in 2005, quit drugs and became a born-again Christian. He released an album titled Save Me From Myself last year and has published an autobiography called Save Me From Myself: How I Found God, Quit Korn, Kicked Drugs, And Lived To Tell My Story.

Korn frontman Jonathan Davis recently told The Pulse Of Radio that Fieldy, guitarist James "Munky" Shaffer and drummer Ray Luzier are working on Korn's ninth studio album. Suitably, Davis told the radio program that many of the disc's songs will tackle organized religion. It will be produced by Ross Robinson, who worked on the first two Korn records, and Davis says it will harken back to the band's early material.

"It's gonna be very raw, it's gonna be old school like the first Korn records," he said. "Basically, it's gonna be recorded as a four-piece band, with just Munky on guitars and Fieldy and Ray and me.

"We really want to go back to that old school vibe. It was just really intense and emotional and, you know, I have a lot of built-up aggression toward certain things that I need to get out for this record."