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MY, HOW THE TIMES HAVE CHANGED: NEW LIMP BIZKIT SONG HAS A GUITAR SOLO

 Monday, August 9th, 2010 at 2:00pm by

People sometimes ask me why I spend so much time writing about Limp Bizkit if I hate them so much, and I really don’t have a good answer. I think it’s probably not dissimilar from the way my dad is always watching programs about the Nazis on The History Channel, even though he and his family just narrowly escaped from zee Germans with their lives — you wanna understand the monster that committed these atrocities, y’know?

And so with that in mind, I braced myself and listened to Limp Bizkit’s latest, “Walking Away.” And for most of the song, I was like, “Oh, great. A terrible alt-rock power ballad.” ‘Cause, y’know, I really thought we were finally done with those after Puddle of Mudd mercifully disappeared. In fact, the song is just so generic and lame that I wasn’t even gonna write about it; I was gonna save all my vitriol for the Gold Cobra review Vince tells me I absolutely must write (And “take seriously.” I have no fucking idea how to take a review of Limp Bizkit seriously, let alone write a serious review.).

But then at the 3:18 mark, I was caught totally off-guard — ’cause Wes Borland takes a guitar solo. I pinched myself, but I wasn’t dreaming; I looked out the window, but I had not somehow missed the start of the Apocalypse; I had the MetalSucks Mansion Monkeys run a quick lab test on my weed, but someone hadn’t mixed it with a stronger hallucinogenic. There really is a guitar solo in a Limp Bizkit song now.

Granted, it’s nothing that anyone with ten fingers and five minutes to practice couldn’t play, but still… it seems like just yesterday that Hetfield and Ulrich were able to bully Kirk Hammett into not taking solos because they might “date” St. Anger, and here we are, and Wes Borland is taking a motherfucking guitar solo. What’s next for Bizkit — blast beats?

-AR

[via The PRP]

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  • Spanky

    Eww

  • Clayton Muchaels

    It sounds like part of it’s in the wrong key, though…

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ben-Robson/1375985482 Ben Robson

    the beginning reminds me of the beginning of lateralus by tool

    the rest reminds me of being raped by polar bears

    also lol @ “down in a hole”

  • http://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/ Alkahest

    That sounded pretty terrible.

  • Hammer_Smashed_Hurtt

    Unfortunately, if the cycle of trends continues..in about 4 1/2 years Limp and “Nu-metal” will make a untimely comeback. I cant believe I just typed that. I dont want it to happen, but unfortunately the overload of awesomeness that has been happening since the beginning of the century will have run its course. Then Daddy issues, JNCO’s, drop-F# shitass riffs and the like will be popular again.

    Oh wait..nevermind this is 80′s regurgitation we’re in right now (not complaining)..so we have a Grunge comeback to look forward to first.

    FML.

    • Driven9

      hahhh to JNCO’s – what a horrible fad that was

    • Vlygar

      We’re easing into the Grunge era already. STP regrouped and are touring, Alice in Chains regrouped, put out a new awesome album and are touring. Soundgarden has regrouped and it’s pretty obvious they’ll be writing new material very shortly. There will be new Beavis and Butthead material. All that’s left is the members of Nirvana having a jam session, which always leads to a regrouping.

      • Hammer_Smashed_Hurtt

        Kinda hard when the singer is missing 3/4 of his face/Skull.

        • vagina

          oh snap, coBURNed, hehe

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Stephen-Parker/1048411723 Stephen Parker

    This is genuinely horrible.
    How is this junk still popular?

  • Honeynutzz

    Still wont listen to it.

  • Aaron R A

    To be entirely honest, this shit is horrendous. But it’s not nearly as bad as I was expecting. I was sure it was going to be projectile vomit-inducing, whereas it’s really only nauseating. It’s far too boring to elicit any kind of violent response.

  • Tr00dFurg3s0n

    This song is amazing. I think my life has just been changed.

    • anthony

      Sarcastic Fuck

  • GoingDeaf?

    Thank God they counted into the song…. otherwise I would have been completely lost.

  • AARONIUS

    Nu-metal already has made a comeback, it’s calling itself Deathcore these days.

    I’m not a Limp Bizkit fan, but I did listen to the song to see what the deal was.

    Turns out I was right, there isn’t anything to be made out of this. Wes Borland is a mediocre guitar player who likes a lot of effects.

    With enough “chorus” and “flange” anyone can sound decent.

    Call me when they incorporate the blastbeats……no wait then they’ll be Emmure.

    • David

      I love it when people use Limp Bizkit as an excuse to side-swipe at other genres which have absolutely nothing to do with anything within the story they’re commenting on.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Tim-Jones/554310014 Tim Jones

      I second the comment about effects. This is a contrived solo by a guitarist who doesn’t actually enjoy playing solos. Therein lies the problem.

  • Brett

    I laugh every time I see that picture of the band…4 whiteboy thuggalos, and an undead monkey shaman…good image.

  • William Grimmkvlt

    What the fuck is DJ Lethal(at least I think that’s Lethal) smirking about in the screencap? I wouldn’t look so smug if my main source of income was to make Wikka-Wiklka noises on Limp fucking Bizkit cds. At least Wes has enough sense of shame to wear goofy make-up and masks.

    • stu1

      He’s smirking because he’s still wiping his ass with hundred dollars bills from his House of Pain earnings; he hasn’t even touched his Bizkit bucks yet.

  • axem

    Sure sounds black light burns.

    Take out Durst and the song is okay.

    I like the atmosphere that Wes brings, yes the guitar is kinda clichée and is probably shoved in the back of the mix cause otherwise you couldnt hear Durst’s sweet voice.

    The song feels kinda forced or at least something that wasnt meant to be heavy was made that way by I dont know who.

  • viridianx

    Can’t wait to smoke a bowl, listen to this, and smile.

  • Fufkin

    Black Lights Burns were pretty good…

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Josh-Gunderson/558802108 Josh Gunderson

    I hear a lot of Tool influence in the music.

  • SeanN

    Did you just compare Fred Durst to Hitler? Nice. haha

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mikey-Ck-Vanderven/502827008 Mikey Ck Vanderven

    i honestly really enjoyed this. sorry guys. its nothing AMAZING, at all, but its not bad. reminded me of boiler or that other..song.. this is kind of what i always wanted more from limp bizkit..

  • the ghoul

    Axl Rosenberg is a true metal nazi

  • http://www.schenkeltown.com SchenkelTown

    call me crazy, but i really liked the black light burns album

    • Steve O

      I did too.

      And, Wes Borland is actually a pretty damn good guitarist IMO. I quite liked that solo he played.

    • axem

      Yes, I think Wes should have stayed with black light burns. Atleast that band was kinda good and had some artistic value.

  • http://www.twitter.com/lordserge Serge

    I hate LImp Dick too… but stop it already with the postings and the adding a youtube video… Don’t be a part of the problem and stop spreading the decease… I come to this site for METAL not BS… C’mon man Keep it METAL!!!

    • viridianx

      METAL, MAN! METAL! GRRR!

      It’s a fun story, lay off.

  • thisisnotcarlos

    Does anyone else think fred’s trying to sound like chino(deftones) at the end ?

    • gnarlk

      yep

    • Fucksauce

      1

  • http://www.myspace.com/severed Tonberry

    Solo? More like nolo!

  • Perpetual Black Screen Name

    What the fuck, more Limp Bizkit? Why do you do this to us Axl? Makh Daniels is dead (holy fuck), Nergal is sick, Y&T’s bass player has been diagnosed with cancer and now we get hit with a new Limp Bizkit song and as usual, the plucking of high strings is considered a solo when it’s nothing but musical diarrhea. Anymore bad news? Fuck.

  • Rik

    Welcome to 2003. There’s a guitar solo in their song “Underneath the Gun”. Now stop posting shit that isn’t even news, let alone remotely interesting. You hate Limp Bizkit, we get it. Go and listen to IWABO or hair metal or whatever terrible core shit you’re into at the moment.

  • Jonathan

    …it’s not that horrendous. It’s just… bland. It sounds like a bad attempted rip-off of some 90′s rock band or something… because, y’know, that’s what it is. But… it’s… yeah, okay, this just gts worse the longer it goes on.

  • Chromatic Justice

    Was Borland is a teriffic guitar player he just dumbs down his guitar playing to fit Limp Bizkit’s style. If no one here never heard the song Darkness becomes by Big Dumb Face
    you should check it out on big dumb face myspace.

  • Anthony

    Puddle of Mudd hasn’t disappeared. In fact, they’re on the Carnival of Madness tour with Vince’s beloved Shinedown and your beloved Sevendust.

  • BASSQUATCH

    Almost reminds me of A Perfect Circle.

  • Poopenshaft

    rofl that’s a solo? oy gevalt

  • vagina

    you know what i think is most hilarious? it totally didn’t even sound like limp bizkit (except the fact that it sucked) probably because it didn’t have any of that lame fred durst “yell/rap/talk” thing that he ALWAYS does…. but then he had to go and throw it in at the end on some meaningless repeated phrases and make this horrible song even more abysmal…. seriously, do people not learn?

  • Malamor

    This song makes me want to remove my bottom two ribs so I can suck my own dick while I play this on repeat, as loud as loud can be.

    • leroydragon

      That is the best comment I have ever seen. Well done

  • bro

    Is it just me or do 4 out of 5 people looks EXACTLY the same, I mean they all have the same face structure and they just look the same!

  • Chainsaw Majini

    I would rather listen to Mini Daddy.

  • http://www.radioactivesandwich.com slice two

    lordy lord this is awful.

  • http://fantasyh.wordpress.com fantasyh

    Five minutes is too much time to waste on learning a solo like this.

  • Mitch K

    meh, not great and terrible. i simply just wont pay attention to this anymore haha

  • Stephen

    Fred Douche is trying to sound like Chino Moreno now?

  • Jamie

    Wow hating Limp Bizkit…so original. Why don’t we hate on Creed and Nickelback while we’re at it too.

    Look, it’s one thing to hate these bands, but I think at this point Creed could put out one of the greatest songs of all time and people would just say it sucks because it’s Creed. There is absolutely nothing terrible or offensively egregiously bad about this song. It’s not the second coming, but the truth is, if this was anybody else, people would have fairly neutral comments. And this is probably coming from a bunch of people who 10 years ago loved Limp Bizkit when it was cool to love Limp Bizkit.

    Oh and “Rearranged” is one of the best rock songs to hit radio. Let’s see what you guys have to say about that one.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/David-Adam-Meredith/1463830541 David Adam Meredith

    Within the context of Limp Bizkit, this new track is one of the best things they’re ever done. Within the context of all recorded music throughout history, it’s an auditory abortion.

  • kyle

    i think wes has put out some pretty tight riffs in the early days thats pretty much what made limp bizkit. the pit at one of their shows was just outright fucking brutal.