—the nu-metal poster children who, with the help of a George Michael song and a red baseball cap, captured the rage of a particular subset of baseball-cap-and-baggy-pant-wearing young men in the late ’90s—are going to record an album and head out on tour this spring, the first time the original lineup has been together in eight years. Did you know that the band’s first three albums have sold more than 20 million copies? I suspect the fourth one will not boost that total by a substantial amount, but I may be wrong, because there are a lot of angry people out there. (Although a lot of that general frustration does come from people having no money to buy frivolous things like Limp Bizkit albums. Hmm. Social experiment!)
Fred Durst nearly gave away the “surprise” on his Twitter last night. How will nu-metal cope with the Web 2.0 age? Perhaps this joint statement from Durst and guitarist Wes Borland can provide a hint:
“We decided we were more disgusted and bored with the state of heavy popular music than we were with each other. Regardless of where our separate paths have taken us, we recognize there is a powerful and unique energy with this particular group of people we have not found anywhere else. This is why Limp Bizkit is back.”
Oh boy! Expect lots of peevish Twitters about Shinedown and Seether in the coming weeks!
Limp Bizkit [Official site]
This is like when your grandma dies. You know it’s inevitable, but it’s still terribly, terribly depressing.
Until right now, I was blissfully unaware of Limp Bizkit’s excursion into “Faith”, but I am now enlightened. Alas.
Anyone know what happened to Wes linking up with Manson? That was exciting, this, well, this is just sad.
whatever. I’ll take the Bizkit over Seether/Shinedown droning any day.
This might work well for them if they concentrate more on the rap/rock and less on the rock. Fred chirping in Autotune about some girl; guest-appearances from Ludacris, Lil’ Wayne and Lil’ Kim; maybe a couple of power chords; produced by Timbaland,..
Time to dustoff the bright red fitted hat and turn it around backwards.
“We decided we were more disgusted and bored with the state of heavy popular music than we were with each other”
I would so take System Of A Down, Mastodon, My Chemical Romance, Queens Of The Stone Age, the new Metallica album, and even the new Slipknot album over a millisecond of these clowns.
Wes actually rejoined the band for an EP release in 2005. So it’s really only a 4 year hiatus for the original band.
Please note that I am embarrassed I even know this.
I’m sure all their original fans, now in their mid to late 20s, are clamoring to hear “nookie” rhymed with “cookie” again.
@Christopher R. Weingarten:
Hear, hear, even though I think restraining orders now prohibit System of a Down from appearing even in the same paragraph as Mastodon. Getting your head beat in will do that, I guess.
@Audif Jackson Winters III:
I’m not going to lie – I giggled to myself when I read those two words in the same sentence. I’m not a Bizkit fan, but, really, that’s a timeless couplet on par with anything John Donne ever did.
/age 27
//still 13 on the inside.
///really, really, REALLY looking forward to Crack the Skye
ZOMG! Limp Bizkit is reuniting? Next you’ll tell me that Eminem is coming back…
@Christopher R. Weingarten: Seconded, thirded, and fourthed.
@dsven: don’t be. I own that EP.
does this mean that Wes’ brilliantly sexy Black Light Burns is on the backburner like his million other projects?
It IS like 1999…how apocolyptic. Wait. Nsync and Backstreet will be back, Eminem is releasing a new album….the zombie of TRL lumbers in the streets craving brains in the streets of Times Square as we snark.
Thanks to this little trick I am definitely looking forward to this album. Wes Borland is simply awesome. He’s the only reason I ever listened to any of the LB songs.
oh, HELLS yeah.
Perhaps there could be some way to pay certain bands to not reunite
Oh great…what the world really needs right now…
I think perhaps they’re angry because they’re listening to Limp Bizkit…?
@Invisible Circus: I too was thinking, ‘How else can Wes Borland have his creativity and talent stifled?!’ So thank goodness this happened!
I haven’t heard such disappointing news since Dillinger lost their drummer to Coheed and Cambria… not a bad band, but not necessarily known for stellar drumming. Limp Bizkit, however… Who knows, maybe they’ll surprise me.
Please surprise me. Please.
@TheRunningboard7: Well, Fred Durst is a director of serious movies now, so maybe?
Limp Bizkit getting back together to fight bad music is like the Nazi party starting back up to fight antisemitism.
I’ve been dying for a sequel to The Unquestionable Truth (Part 1).
this is lil’ wayne’s fault.
or maybe blink-182′s and eminem’s.
maybe it’s because they feel they had their best run with a democrat in the white house.
whatever it is, these guys are seriously jumping the gun by reuniting already.
I’m looking forward to “Behind Blue Eyes ’09″.
And how did I not know this fact I saw on Wikipedia:
@LostTurntable: FTW.
This means a Creed reunion within the year is inevitable, doesn’t it?
…and the fourth horseman of the apocalypse trots on to the scene…