Fieldy from Korn is Making an Instrumental Jazz Fusion Album Called Bassically

It’s no secret that solo albums by metal bassists are all the rage these days, with no less an authority than United States Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker declaring that “solo bass albums will be the savior of the music industry.”

Of course, the bassist everyone really wants to see make a solo instrumental album is the one dude who has managed to hold out against the trend thus far. That’s right:

Fieldy!

Luckily for all of us, it seems that this is soon going to change. In a new interview, the Korn bassist reveals that he’s working on a solo album called Bassically. And while the title alone strongly suggests that it’s going to be the greatest record ever made, there are reasons to be excited for its release, too. For example…

“It’s all instrumental. I play 15-string bass, fretless basses — every kind of bass you can think of, Fender jazz, whatever. I don’t even know if we could name all the basses I played on there. It takes you on a ride. Jazz fusion, punk, Latin, blues, reggae… I don’t even know if I even left any style of music out.”

So the album is going to feature at least one song in every style of music ever created that Fieldy is personally familiar with, and will include recordings of Fieldy playing somewhere between three and all basses. See, folks, THIS is the musicianship Jonathan Davis was praising. Fieldies are born, not made.

Bassically should be out sometime in 2017.

[via Metal Injection]