Nine years after their last hit, nu-metallers Limp Bizkit claim to be readying "the heaviest, most crazy metal record of all time". And where once they were mentored by Korn, this time they're getting a hand from Lil Wayne.
Wayne's Cash Money label signed Limp Bizkit last month, and now the band's singer, Fred Durst, has announced his intentions for the band's comeback. "[I'm going] to make my rock music in a hip-hop fashion," he told Billboard. Wayne has already recorded a cameo on the group's new single, Ready to Go, which they intend to release as a free download.
Ready to Go was produced by Love in this Club's Polow Da Don, and is just the first volley in Durst's plans for a rock band that works as rap and R&B stars do – flying in to meet with producers, recording, and flying out. "You just come in and you're there and you give it 110% for 12 hours, 24, 36 hours and you leave with a song. That's the vibe. You go in and walk out with a monster and keep moving forward song after song."
It's an unlikely reinvention for Limp Bizkit, who seemed destined for a rap-rock retirement home, despite reuniting in 2009. Although their first four albums were blockbusters, a 2005 LP barely broke the US top 25, and 2011's Gold Cobra creaked in at No 16. They haven't had a mainstream charting single since 2003's Behind Blue Eyes.
Nevertheless, Cash Money sees something in the combination of Durst, now 41, and the band's guitarist, Wes Borland. The "crazy metal record" is intended to balance out the group's hip-hop experimentalism, Durst said: "[It] will service our core and counter-balance these big, fat, ginormous hip-rock songs we're going to do." The music will probably be released as an EP called The Unquestionable Truth, Part 2.
"We want to let everybody know this is just an introduction," Durst said. Now that Limp Bizkit and Cash Money "are living together," he said, "now that we're married, we'll see what happens when we start doing more … I've been waiting my whole life for this type of feeling."
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