Last week we posted about Wes Borland's rant against playing the ShipRocked cruise with "over-the-hill" Limp Bizkit. It was strange to see Borland lash out against the band he's currently in, but don't worry! He was joking! He corrected the statement in an interview with Stereogum, saying he's always had fun with the group.
"Um, no I don’t hate being in Limp Bizkit. I’m very aware of my band. You know, I totally get tons of people don’t like it and think it’s a joke. And then we have a really strong fan base that are great. And it’s been something I’ve always been part of, on and off, but something that’s always been my band, and whether people think it’s dumb or not, or elements of it aren’t cool, whatever. We’ve always had really fun live shows."
He's right, Limp Bizkit does put on a fun live show, especially for a metal ba- wait. Apparently Limp Bizkit isn't metal?
“I think metal is so fucking boring that I wanna stab my eyes out with screwdrivers. In the ’90s we tried to do something with metal, to take it into a new direction, based on combining metal bands with stuff that was on the heels of the grunge movement, like Helmet and Primus and even Pantera and the Melvins — taking those Helmet slaughterhouse riffs and combining it with like Carcass riffs and treating it more like a hip-hop Ministry song.
That was the thought process at the time, and we didn’t know where it was gonna go. And luckily for him, metal’s right back to being the same as it was then. So obviously nothing was ruined because it was a time period of just experimenting and going in a certain direction and seeing what guitars did if you did this to them, and songs, and so on and so forth. And at no point were ever claiming to be, like, metal. That was put on us by having that as an influence, and I think that’s funny that he’s even getting that mad about it! [laughs]”
I'm a Limp Bizkit fan, but never once did I hear a song by the group and think "oh yeah man, that's a Carcass riff." It's fun music that has some catchy, heavy riffs, but I'm not sure Borland is justified in saying the group is venturing into territories like creative titans Primus and Carcass. Oh well. To each his own.
