Limp Bizkit guitarist Wes Borland has confirmed that new music from the nü-metal icons is still a going concern. Last year saw the band team up with multiplayer FPS game ‘Battlefield 6‘ for the release of a new single titled “Making Love To Morgan Wallen“. Since then, vocalist Fred Durst has made a few cameos, including pairing up with MGK and Lauren Sanderson. Borland meanwhile was spotted in the studio with Danny Elfman earlier this year.
In a new chat conducted by Gear4music Guitars at this month’s ‘Download Festival‘ , Borland mentioned that there could be some more progress made on new Limp Bizkit tracks in August. He stated:
“We’re planning on going in… I think we have some time in August that we’re planning on going in and writing. We’ve had writing sessions, and there are parts [that we may end up using in some of the new songs]. Fred and I were just listening to some riffs and some other sessions that we had from a writing session last year, and we were, like, ‘Oh, I forgot about that. I forgot about that.’ And so we’ve got some ammo to go in.”
Borland went on to note that the like their fellow veterans of nü-metal’s heyday in Deftones and Korn, Limp Bizkit‘s career has seen a dramatic resurgence in recent years. He also admitted though that the increased interest in their live shows has however gotten in the way of their studio plans.
In a mini-doc of sorts shared last month around the release of Borland‘s new Jackson King V signature guitar, the eccentric guitarist remarked of the band’s renewed popularity, “This feels as big, if not bigger, than when we first came out. People aren’t old and gray like us. People are young and like new, like new fans.”
Borland went on to reaffirm that career renaissance of sorts in this latest interview, offering:
“…What I really need to do, and which I haven’t done in a while, before we’ve had sessions, is do homework and go… ‘Cause we’ve been so busy lately that when we’ve gone into the studio, which we have a few times over the last couple years, but the resurgence in our schedule has just been amazing. I don’t know whether it’s TikTok or nostalgia or what it is, but we’ve been busy, busy, busy.
But usually in the past, when we’ve made a record, I go do lots of riff writing and then bring it in, and then we start building songs off of that. Or Fred will work on song ideas at home, and then we’ll build off of that. And then sometimes we just start improvising. Or he’ll go, ‘Write the best thing you’ve ever written right now, on the spot.’
But some of that stuff happens. I mean, I think ‘Break Stuff’ happened that way, where it was just, like, [I came up with the opening two-part riff that relies entirely on an easy hammer-on technique]… And he’s like, ‘That’s enough.’ And then we just started looping that. So you just never know what you’re gonna get. ‘Cause that was almost a joke when I wrote that, because it was so simple. I was, like, ‘What, like this?’ Just threw something away, and that becomes the most dangerous song in the world.”
When the interviewer pointed out that Korn vocalist Jonathan Davis has also recently remarked that they feel bigger than ever too, Borland replied:
“We’re the biggest we’ve ever been right now [as well.] It’s crazy. And I’m not saying that in a cocky way. I’m saying that, like, we can’t believe it. It’s just been — we’re so lucky. I don’t know exactly how it happened, but I think people… We just get along so well now, and everybody, we’re adults, and we’re still having fun doing it, and I think that translates to the audience.”
Should Limp Bizkit manage to get back into the studio this summer, there is at least one hurdle to clear in how to proceed without their late bassist Sam Rivers. The latter passed away last fall and was a key component in many of the band’s songs. It remains unclear if his current live replacement, Richie “Kid Not” Buxton (Ecca Vandal), will be invited into the creative process.
[via Blabbermouth.net]
