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Interview: Wes Borland on rejoining Limp Bizkit and new album Gold Cobra

Wes Borland on stage with Limp Bizkit at the UK leg of the Sonisphere Festival, July 2011. © Fiaz Farrelly

When Wes Borland left the multi-platinum-selling rap-metal band Limp Bizkit in 2001, he was sure it was for good. And when he split again in 2005 (after rejoining a year earlier), he was more than certain that his second exit was indeed final.

Fast forward to 2011, and the 36-year-old Borland is back in the fold. This time, however, he swears he’s not running away again. “I’m in Limp Bizkit to stay,” he says firmly. “I’ve accepted the fact that Limp Bizkit is my band, one that I’m a part of, a band that I’ve built from the beginning. It does me no good to be in somebody else’s band playing their music, like Marilyn Manson or Korn. Being in Limp Bizkit allows me to be myself.”

Says the man who on any given night dresses up as anything from a gorilla to a creature from outer space. “That’s part it it, too,” he says, laughing. “Without me becoming different characters, I wouldn’t be a real artist, and the band wouldn’t be what it should be. It all goes hand in hand.”

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Interview: Limp Bizkit

Interview: Limp Bizkit

Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst. "Dallas, give him the ball." Limp Bizkit frontman, Fred Durst is busy playing with his toddler son in a Los Angeles park, showing the soft side nobody suspects he has. "Everybody has to have a side that nobody knows," he explains. "If you don't, then everybody will just know everything." It's hard to see what's really hiding behind those blue eyes. Maybe it's pain from being the most hated man in rock. "No one knows what it's like to be hated," as the song goes. So just why is he so hated? musicOMH attempted to find out..."I'll never know all the reasons," says the Limp Bizkit vocalist. "Some guys just come along and get that rap and I just happen to be that guy right now. It used to bother me. You've got to become numb at some point." Even when your mistakes are constantly used against you? "Mistakes are the greatest things that I've been able to have. I wouldn't have learned a lot of things if I wouldn't have been able to make mistakes. I've had to the freedom to make mistakes, obviously, in front of the whole world."

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Limp Bizkit

Biography

Limp Bizkit is an American nu metal band from Jacksonville, Florida. The band’s line-up consists ofFred Durst (lead vocals), Wes Borland (guitar), Sam Rivers (bass), John Otto (drums) and DJ Lethal. Limp Bizkit has been nominated for three Grammy Awards and have won several other major awards. The band has sold an estimated 35 million albums worldwide.

Formed in 1995, the band achieved mainstream success with their second studio album, Significant Other, released in 1999. Their third studio album, Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water, released in 2000, continued the band’s success. The album sold 1.05 million copies in its first week, making it the fastest-selling rock album ever, breaking the record held for 7 years by Pearl Jam’s Vs.

Mike Smith was brought in as a replacement guitarist, following the departure of Wes Borland in 2001, for the fourth studio album, Results May Vary, released in 2003. Borland rejoined the band in 2004 for the release of an EP, The Unquestionable Truth (Part 1) but departed again. He rejoined the band in February 2009. With Borland, Limp Bizkit recorded their first full length album with their original line-up in ten years, Gold Cobra.