--- title: Korn Has 12-Year-Old Bassist, Korn members description: Korn has tapped the world's coolest 12-year-old, Tye Trujillo, the son of Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo, to be their new bassist. canonical: https://time.com/4733391/korn-bassist-tye-trujillo/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-04-10T19:13:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:42:41.262Z og:title: Korn Enlists World's Coolest 12-Year-Old to Be New Bassist og:description: Tye Trujillo is basically rock royalty og:url: https://time.com/4733391/korn-bassist-tye-trujillo/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Korn Enlists World's Coolest 12-Year-Old to Be New Bassist twitter:description: Tye Trujillo is basically rock royalty twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Korn Enlists the World's Coolest 12-Year-Old as Their New Bassist > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Apr 10, 2017 7:13 PM UTC  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Apr 10, 2017 7:13 PM UTC While other middle schoolers are plotting [how to survive dances in the gym](http://time.com/4727690/emma-stone-prom-la-la-land/) and facing [the trials and tribulations of adolescence](http://time.com/4546993/teen-depression-and-anxiety-what-parents-can-do/), 12-year-old Tye Trujillo is heading on tour with Korn. Trujillo, the son of Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo, will be filling in this month for the band’s regular bassist Reginald “Fieldy” Arvizu during Korn’s South American tour with stops like Colombia and Chile. Besides having amazing guitar skills, Trujillo also has the perfect mane to really rock out with the Korn crew. Best of all, his age is especially fitting, because Korn provided a soundtrack to many a middle schooler’s angst in the late ’90s and early aughts. According to a Facebook post on the Korn page, Trujillo is also a member of the Northern California-based band [The Helmets](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk3WsiU7txc). The Korn post also expressed excitement for their newest (and youngest) colleague. “We are bummed Fieldy can’t join us on this run but excited to do a few gigs with a young player like Tye. 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