Almost four years since founding Korn bassist Reginald “Fieldy” Arvizu announced he was taking a hiatus from the group, the musician has revealed he hasn’t spoken to his bandmates in more than five years.

Fieldy made the revelation in a recent appearance on the Basement Talk podcast, explaining that his hiatus has featured no contact with any of the musicians he rose to fame with.

“I haven’t talked to those guys since 2019. So it’s like we’re just kind of both…. They’re truckin,'” he explained. “They’re a machine. They’re going. It’s insane. It’s dope that they can keep on going like that.”

Though somewhat vague in his responses, one of the podcast’s presenters inquired as to whether “it’s all love between everybody” between the other members of the band. “Yeah. It’s cool to see them keep on going,” Fieldy added. “I’m, like, I need to chill. I’m just kickin’ it.”

Fieldy served as the bassist of Korn since its inception in 1993, performing on every one of their studio albums to date, including 1998’s Follow the Leader and 1999’s Issues, which both topped the Billboard 200. In June 2021, however, he revealed he would be taking “some time off to heal” and to address the “bad habits” which had “caused some tension with the people around me”.