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Wes Borland, guitarist for Limp Bizkit, has affirmed that the nu metal superstars are currently producing new songs, as per theprp. The band collaborated with the multiplayer first-person shooter game “Battlefield 6” last year to make a new song called “Making Love To Morgan Wallen.” Vocalist Fred Durst has since made a few appearances, notably collaborating with Lauren Sanderson and MGK. Earlier this year, Borland was seen working with Danny Elfman at the studio. Borland stated that there might be more work done on new Limp Bizkit songs in August during a recent conversation hosted by Gear4music Guitars at this month’s “Download Festival.”
We’re planning on going in… I think we have some time in August that we’re planning on going in and writing. We’ve had writing sessions, and there are parts [that we may end up using in some of the new songs]. Fred 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.
Borland went on to say that, like their fellow veterans of nu metal’s heyday, Deftones and Korn, Limp Bizkit‘s career has witnessed a tremendous comeback in recent years. He also stated that the growing interest in their live shows had interfered with their studio arrangements. In a mini-documentary released last month to coincide with the premiere of Borland’s new Jackson King V signature guitar, the quirky guitarist commented on the band’s revived popularity.
This feels as big, if not bigger, than when we first came out. People aren’t old and gray like us. People are young and like new, like new fans.
In his most recent interview, Borland reaffirmed his professional resurgence.
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.
When the interviewer mentioned that Korn vocalist Jonathan Davis had lately stated that they felt bigger than ever, Borland responded like this.
We’re the biggest we’ve ever been right now [as well.] 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.
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