Photos and fan reports place Limp Bizkit back in the studio, months after Wes Borland said they would book time between tour dates.
Photographs and fan sightings placing Limp Bizkit in the studio have been circulating again. Images of band members at work appeared online last year, and more have surfaced in recent days alongside reports from people who say they have seen them recording.
Any sessions now would be the band’s first towards an album since the death of co-founding bassist Sam Rivers.
Wes Borland set out the plan in June, speaking to ABC Audio. “We had a death in the band, and that sort of has rocked us a little bit,” the guitarist said at the time. “We’re kind of moving through that, recovering from that. It’s been an interesting process.”
He added: “We are looking to go back into the studio and book studio time this year whenever we can in between travel to try to start working on a new record.”
Rivers died on October 18 last year at his home in Florida, aged 48. He had formed the band in Jacksonville in 1994 with Fred Durst and John Otto after the two met through the short-lived Malachi Sage, and played on every Limp Bizkit album. His final performance was at Leeds Festival on August 24, and he had been working on new material with the band when he died.
The band issued statement at the time: “Today we lost our brother. Our bandmate. Our heartbeat,” the band wrote at the time.”
“Sam Rivers wasn’t just our bass player — he was pure magic. The pulse beneath every song, the calm in the chaos, the soul in the sound,” the band continued. “From the first note we ever played together, Sam brought a light and a rhythm that could never be replaced. His talent was effortless, his presence unforgettable, his heart enormous.”
“We shared so many moments — wild ones, quiet ones, beautiful ones — and every one of them meant more because Sam was there,” they continued. “He was a once-in-a-lifetime kind of human. A true legend of legends. And his spirit will live forever in every groove, every stage, every memory.””
“We love you, Sam. We’ll carry you with us, always. Rest easy, brother. Your music never ends,” the post concluded.
Richie “Kid Not” Buxton of Ecca Vandal has handled bass live since the band returned to the stage on November 29 in Mexico City, a set that opened with a video tribute to Rivers.
The album would be their seventh and the first since Still Sucks, released on Halloween 2021 after a ten-year gap and the last record Rivers appeared on. The band put out the standalone single “Making Love To Morgan Wallen” in September last year.
Studio plans had been in place before, but touring kept taking priority. Borland said in June that the band are “the biggest we’ve ever been right now”. Their 2026 schedule includes headline slots at Rock Fest, Inkcarceration, Louder Than Life and Aftershock, and a co-headline appearance with Creed at the “Summer Of ’99 And Beyond Festival” in Tinley Park in July.
