Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit might sing on Van Halen’s unfinished album

Alex Van Halen, the drummer for Van Halen, has been working on a new album that would include unfinished and unreleased songs from the Rock & Roll Hall of Famers’ archives, as per theprp. As a result, he brought in Steve Lukather to help develop the song concepts they were working on for an album that was put on hold due to the death of Eddie Van Halen, the band’s resident guitar god, in 2020. A singer has not yet been confirmed, although Wolfgang Van Halen, Eddie’s son, has recorded most of the bass for that project. Fred Durst, the vocalist for Limp Bizkit, is one applicant to put his figurative red hat in the running for the position.

Ed and I had a lot of stuff that we made, that we made musically that we never let go. Many people have asked, what about releasing unreleased stuff? Well, we’re not gonna release it in its embryonic form because it wouldn’t make any sense. But I’ve been fortunate enough to have Steve Lukather, who was a good friend of Ed‘s, and we’re working on putting a record together, but it has to be of the quality and the level of where we left it. Not just to say, ‘Hey, here’s some music that we made. If you like it, that’s great.’ No. It has to be the quality that we expect.

These are recordings that were going to be the next [Van Halen] record, and that were stopped because [Ed] didn’t live that long… The drums are already recorded. The drums, the guitar and the bass are already in there. What we didn’t have is a vocalist, and obviously the subtleties and the glue — we call it the glue or the spackle.

We originally had plans to — I think I can probably say without talking outta school, one of the singers who we really, really, really wanted to use for the new stuff was Paul Rodgers, and he has a relationship with Luke and we grew up on Free and all that, but [Paul] can’t do it anymore. And it was very difficult for him to bring himself to say, ‘No, I can’t. Count me out.’ I respect that. I’m saddened and disappointed, but you know, that’s life… He knows he can’t do it — which I think is better than saying, ‘Yeah, I can do it,’ and then not be able to do it. – Alex Van Halen

Fred Durst is ready to go!