Limp Bizkit guitarist Wes Borland says the nü-metal icons are riding higher than at any other point in their three-decade career, and that new music is on the way, with the band planning to head into the studio this summer.
In a new interview with “Gear4music Guitars“, Borland was asked whether he and his bandmates have plans to work on fresh material anytime soon. He confirmed they do, pointing to writing sessions already on the calendar.
“Absolutely. We’re planning on going in… I think we have some time in August that we’re planning on going in and writing,” he said.
He continued: “We’ve had writing sessions, and there are parts [that we may end up using in some of the new songs]. Fred [Durst] 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.”
Asked to explain how the band’s songwriting usually comes together, Borland described a process that swings between careful preparation and pure spontaneity, and revealed that one of their most explosive songs was almost an afterthought.
“Usually Fred comes with an idea, or I’ll… 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,” he explained.
The conversation turned to a recent comment from Korn, who said the Jonathan Davis-fronted band is now the biggest it has ever been. Borland said the same is true for Limp Bizkit, and made clear it still amazes him.
“We’re the biggest we’ve ever been right now [as well],” he said. “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.”
Last year, Limp Bizkit released the single “Making Love To Morgan Wallen“, their first new material since the 2021 album Still Sucks. The track was produced, composed and written by Fred Durst, with John Otto, Sam Rivers, Leor Dimant, Wes Borland and Joel Eriksson all receiving “composer lyricist” credits, and was produced by Zakk Cervini. The song arrived via EA Games/Hollywood Records as part of a partnership with the video game Battlefield 6, which also featured a remix of the band’s 1999 hit “Break Stuff” in an early trailer.
The renewed momentum comes during a bittersweet stretch for the group, following the death of founding bassist Sam Rivers, who passed away last October at the age of 48. As they look ahead to new music, the band continues to ride one of the most remarkable late-career resurgences in modern rock.
