Limp Bizkit -kitaristin mukaan nykyajan metallimusiikki on yllätyksetöntä

Yhdysvaltaisen nu metal -yhtye Limp Bizkitin kitaristi Wes Borland on antanut hiljattain haastattelun Stereogumille, jossa kommentoi mm. asemaansa yhtyeessä nykypäivänä sekä metallin tilaa tällä hetkellä. Miehen mukaan metallimusiikki on nykyään niin tylsää, että hän voisi puhkoa silmät ruuvarilla sitä kuunnellessa. Voit lukea Borlandin mietteitä aiheesta tästä:

“Um, no I don’t hate being in Limp Bizkit. I’m very aware of my band. You know, I totally get tons of people don’t like it and think it’s a joke. And then we have a really strong fan base that are great. And it’s been something I’ve always been part of, on and off, but something that’s always been my band, and whether people think it’s dumb or not, or elements of it aren’t cool, whatever. We’ve always had really fun live shows.

I’ve always gotten to create stupid stage personas that make me laugh and hopefully could possibly rub off on someone in the crowd that isn’t used to seeing things like that that borderline on costuming and performance art, or whatever you want to call it. No, it’s an interesting place to be, and I’ve always sort of thought of it as being a Democrat who’s voting in a red state, in a way.

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It’s like, I really like my band. Do I listen to that genre of music? No. But do I participate in my band and do I enjoy playing with those guys? Yeah, it feels like home. I’ve known them for 20 years and developed as a player with John on drums and Sam on bass, and it’s part of my DNA, I guess. It feels good.”

Mies on myös kommentoinut hiljattaista Stereogum -sivuston toimittajan väitettä, jonka mukaan Limp Bizkit pilasi metallin 90 -luvulla:

“I think metal is so fucking boring that I wanna stab my eyes out with screwdrivers. In the ’90s we tried to do something with metal, to take it into a new direction, based on combining metal bands with stuff that was on the heels of the grunge movement, like Helmet and Primus and even Pantera and the Melvins — taking those Helmet slaughterhouse riffs and combining it with like Carcass riffs and treating it more like a hip-hop Ministry song.

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That was the thought process at the time, and we didn’t know where it was gonna go. And luckily for him, metal’s right back to being the same as it was then. So obviously nothing was ruined because it was a time period of just experimenting and going in a certain direction and seeing what guitars did if you did this to them, and songs, and so on and so forth. And at no point were ever claiming to be, like, metal. That was put on us by having that as an influence, and I think that’s funny that he’s even getting that mad about it! [laughs]”