Limp Bizkit dumped by theirlabel

Mon 5th Dec, 2011 in International News

The poor sales of Limp Bizkit’s comeback album Gold Cobra have led to the band being dumped by their record label, Interscope.

Fred Durst was once Vice President of Interscope Records and promised to use his position to “create a musical revolution” instead he signed Staind and fought with TapRoot.

Those days are far behind us all now and Limp Bizkit find themselves unsigned and apparently happily independent. Durst says that the band never really wanted to release an album anyway (so there!); he also claims that they “just want to go play a concert and crush it and turn it into a big-ass party. The record thing sort of kind of always got in our way, but it’s part of the game.”

On the podcast Poolside With Dean Delray, Durst has explained that “One of the things with Gold Cobra was that it was a record for us to do for ourselves, for the core fans, for some of the people that we know in the industry. It wasn’t our step forward to make a big pop, smash radio record; we just didn’t want to make that record at that time. We have been working for a while now to renavigate where we are going to take Limp Bizkit and finally we have been able to get off our label and become independent”.

He continued, boasting that the band still does “very, very good on our touring, and we mainly tour outside the United States” and promising that he’ll write a big American hit “something [fans] can sink their teeth into” and return to remind everyone “how ill Limp Bizkit is live”.

Of course you can see for yourself just how “ill” Durst and his cronies are live when Limp Bizkit tour with Soundwave early next year.