{"id":308857,"date":"2025-11-23T11:40:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T11:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/308857\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T11:40:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T11:40:09","slug":"ice-nine-kills-ricky-armellino-to-sit-out-upcoming-european-tour-fill-in-guitarist-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/308857\/","title":{"rendered":"Ice Nine Kills&#8217; Ricky Armellino to sit out upcoming European Tour, fill in guitarist announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ricky Armellino, guitarist of Ice Nine Kills, took to social media to announce that he will be taking a step back and sitting out the upcoming European Tour with the band.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Armellino has sited personal reasons as the reason for sitting out and also announced a fill in guitarist, Steve Sopchak, for the upcoming tour.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Armellino states:<\/p>\n<p>Man, I am so sorry for how hard it has been to approach this, but after seeing as many professionals as I can afford I am having to accept that my body and nerves are going to need some extended recovery time as I also keep a closer eye on my pet as he has is own needs that need addressed as well. <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/squaresteve\/\">@squaresteve<\/a> thanks for covering for me. I will be sitting out for <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/iceninekills\/\">@iceninekills<\/a> european tour and returning next year!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ricky Armellino, guitarist of Ice Nine Kills, took to social media to announce that he will be taking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,3608,159505,3607,1739,216,3,159506],"class_list":{"0":"post-308857","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-hardcore","10":"tag-ice-nine-kills","11":"tag-lambgoat","12":"tag-metal","13":"tag-music","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-ricky-armellino"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}