limp bizkit
18:59 Monday, 3 April 2023
Limp Bizkit took 10 years between Gold Cobra in 2011 and Still Sucks in 2021. Seems like the wait this time around might be a little shorter.
In an interview with Guitar World, Limp Bizkit guitarist Wes Borland said the band is planning on writing new material during soundchecks throughout 2023. Borland added that the current plan is for a nice Limp Bizkit vacation in 2024 to get the new album done, and then hopefully it'll be out that same year. Either way, it beats waiting a decade.
"Yeah, we're talking about writing during all the soundchecks this year because we're doing so much touring. We want to get recording – we're talking about a travel destination to make an album together next year. We're looking at places, so new music… yessir!
"This thing has been going for so long. I thought it would last for a few years and I'd end up in art school saying 'I was in a band once!' But 27 years later, we're still going, which is wild. I've been in Limp Bizkit for more than half my life. We get along better than ever now. No one is taking anything for granted. We're all just happy to be here and having a lot of fun."
Borland also touched on his insane use of the whammy bar, saying that technique was born from not being able to afford effects pedals when he was younger. Because really, who else would've come up with a riff as insane as "Out Of Style" otherwise?
"The reason I write riffs like that is because I couldn't afford effects pedals when I first started playing. All I had was this Washburn with a licensed Floyd Rose on it and I just started messing around with it more and more.
"As I got further into my career, I realized nobody else was doing this. I couldn't find any other guitarists using the whammy bar almost like a trombone, bringing notes up and down to create a kind of suction that could work with the drums, coming up to a snare or diving down to a kick. It's like this push-and-pull conversation, using the bar."
