{"id":399139,"date":"2026-01-10T11:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T11:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/399139\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T11:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T11:24:08","slug":"suicide-silence-reveal-live-fill-in-for-chris-garza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/399139\/","title":{"rendered":"Suicide Silence Reveal Live Fill-In For Chris Garza"},"content":{"rendered":"

Suicide Silence have found a temporary live replacement for guitarist Chris Garza in Soreption\u2018s Ian Waye. Garza revealed this past December that he is currently taking a hiatus<\/a> from the deathcore outfit, stating at the time:<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s up everyone,<\/p>\n

As some of you have noticed, I\u2019ve missed the last couple Suicide Silence shows. It\u2019s because I\u2019m on a hiatus from the band. SuSi has been on my brain every day since 2002 with no break. Everything is fine. I just need to press the reset button so I can make the right decisions in the near future. As the Terminator said. I\u2019ll be back. \u2013Garza\u201c<\/p>\n

The band will continue forward without him for the time being, with the band\u2019s lead guitarist Mark Heylmun having issued the following statement tonight, January 09th:<\/p>\n

\u201cHey everyone, with the news of Garza\u2019s hiatus I thought I\u2019d share some things I feel pertinent.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been in this band since 2005. I did not start this band, but I\u2019ve been a part of creating every piece of music (for better or worse) that you\u2019ve heard minus the EP and early demos. I did play the EP release show at showcase theatre in my first months of joining.<\/p>\n

I took a break from the band for about 9 months in 2019 because I was preparing for my father\u2019s passing who was fighting cancer and I knew it was only a matter of time. I never shared that publicly because I didn\u2019t want my dad to know I was taking the break because of him. I\u2019d have taken a longer break but was asked to come back to help write what became Become The Hunter.<\/p>\n

I fully support\/respect Garza\u2019s decision to take a break. That said, SS is a part of my blood and DNA at this point and this band has always been a 5 headed dragon and the show must go on, and it will.<\/p>\n

I speak for the guys when I say we\u2019re stoked to have a ripping fill in step up to the plate for all upcoming shows. We are bringing our friend @themilkywaye of Soreption on board as fill in for the upcoming European and Asian tours. For anyone familiar with Ian\u2019s playing you know he has a heavy right hand and can rip with the best of em. If it\u2019s brief or if it\u2019s for a while, we are gonna bring some serious firepower to every stage we step foot on as we always have. Can\u2019t wait to see you all on the road!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013Mark Heylmun.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Suicide Silence have found a temporary live replacement for guitarist Chris Garza in Soreption\u2018s Ian Waye. Garza revealed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[170086,88,216,192763,170087],"class_list":{"0":"post-399139","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-chris-garza","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-soreption","12":"tag-suicide-silence"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399139","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=399139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}