Metal Anarchy

During a recent interview with Gear4music Guitars, Limp Bizkit guitarist Wes Borland discussed the band’s plans for new music. According to him, the group will likely resume the writing process in August.

Borland said the following:

“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 [Durst] 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.”

He went on to discuss the band’s writing process:

“Usually Fred comes with an idea, or I’ll… 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.”

He also added the following when it was mentioned how Korn are bigger than ever:

“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.”

[via Blabbermouth]