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10 nu metal bands who should have been massive

The nu metal explosion took heavy music into the mainstream like never before, but some of its most promising names sadly fell by the wayside

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"It’s saying, ‘If I could smell you, if I could interact with you, I’d eat you alive.'" How a bizarre and controversial stalker video featuring two Hollywood heavyweights brought an end to Limp Bizkit's golden era

Limp Bizkit were the biggest band on Planet Earth by the end of 2000. Less than three years later, things had gone terribly wrong

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The 6 bands who won Rock For People festival 2026

From nu metal icons to metalcore megaweights, Rock For People had it all - and has proven itself as one of the most exciting festivals in Europe

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Limp Bizkit 'lost a piece of our DNA' when bassist Sam Rivers died

Wes Borland has opened up about the grief Limp Bizkit are still facing after bassist Sam Rivers’ death, calling him the band’s irreplaceable “heartbeat".

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23 years after they pulled out of the first ever Download, Limp Bizkit finally headline the UK's biggest rock festival - and they absolutely smash it

Metal's biggest party band bring the ruckus to Donington on Friday night

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"It was a beautiful scar on the metal world." How Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Korn and the rest took nu metal from hated subgenre to the biggest thing on Planet Earth

Nu metal may have been shunned by metal elitists, but it took heavy music to the masses like never before, or since

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Ecca Vandal, the genre-defying punk-rap star on getting offline and having tea with Flea: ‘It constantly spins me out’

The Australian singer’s new album, Looking For People to Unfollow, is a punchy rejection of ‘faux-sincerity’ and music being reduced to TikTok-able snippets

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“The head of LA’s Mexican mafia was in a cell next to me. He passed me a note and asked for an autograph for his daughter”: The hair-raising adventures of ’90s rock icons Stone Temple Pilots and their doomed singer Scott Weiland

“I could not seem to put more than 30 days of abstinence together”

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MGK goes nu-metal on new single Fix Ur Face featuring Limp Bizkit legend Fred Durst

MGK has teamed up with Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst for the hard‑hitting new single Fix Ur Face.

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"I've got a couple of ideas I've been working on for quite some time": Fred Durst wants to set up an alternative to Coachella for musicians who aren't invited to Coachella

Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst wants to start his own "gathering"

Metal Hammer

"I never thought someone would actually run with that song title. I suppose it's all my fault." The story of the extremely silly but surprisingly poignant Limp Bizkit anthem that made them the biggest (and most hated) metal band of their generation

What seemed like a throwaway lyric tacked onto a catchy Bizkit banger actually had some profound meaning for Fred Durst

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"I had 20 kids on my doorstep looking in my windows. I couldn’t go to the grocery store." Tom Cruise, Eminem, the Twin Towers and a million sales in a week - the story behind the album that made Limp Bizkit the biggest rock band on the planet

For just a moment, this was the record that officially made metal the biggest genre in the world

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"Every time I opened Rolling Stone there was a picture of him in his underpants." How Mariah Carey, Cher, Whitney Houston, Courtney Love, Michael Stipe and more got savaged by one of the 90s' most brutal diss tracks

This classic 90s industrial metal banger is also one of the angriest

Metal Hammer

“I didn’t expect him to get busted in that bathroom. But his misfortune actually helped us. We couldn’t have asked for more of a buzz!”: How an unexpected arrest accidentally gave Limp Bizkit their big break

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"I'm packing all my stuff and Courtney's like, 'Amy Lee wants to meet you.' We never expected any of this to happen." From getting arrested at BLM protests to hanging with Evanescence and Limp Bizkit icons, the story of rising metalcore stars Dying Wish

Dying Wish are one of the hottest bands in metalcore right now - and if you disagree, take it up with Courtney LaPlante, Amy Lee and Fred Durst

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“We love you forever”: Watch Limp Bizkit pay tribute to Sam Rivers at their first show following the late bassist’s death

Rivers, who co-founded the nu metal band with Fred Durst and John Otto in 1994, died last month at the age of 48

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Limp Bizkit show in Estonia cancelled after Fred Durst's previous support of Vladimir Putin resurfaces online

Fred Durst had plenty to say about Russia and Putin in the past –and it appears to have come back to bite Limp Bizkit

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"Someone was dressed up in a big dinosaur suit, we saw him right in the middle of a wall of death!" Inside the wild and wonderful world of Hanabie - Japan's next metal superstars

Fashion, fuzzy plushies, and hanging out with Fred Durst - Hanabie are bringing a splash of colour to metal

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When I was 14, I thought Limp Bizkit were the coolest band in the world. At 38, I often still do

Love or hate them, you couldn't ignore them. Luckily, I loved them - and I still do

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Limp Bizkit look set to press on with live shows following death of bassist Sam Rivers

Limp Bizkit are next due onstage on November 29 in Mexico City.

Guitar World

“I went up to Sam after the show and said, ‘You're unbelievable. I’ve got this idea for a band.’ He looked at me and said, ‘I’m in. Let's do it’”: Fred Durst pays tribute to Sam Rivers – and explains why Limp Bizkit couldn't have happened without him

Durst looks back on his first meeting with the late bass icon – who helped make Limp Bizkit a reality

Metal Hammer

"That means start jumping and singing. It doesn’t mean start burning the place down. That’s not what I meant." How a smash hit from some nu metal icons became intertwined with the most controversial music festival of the 90s

A classic of the nu metal era, this hit is also woven into the story of an infamous weekend of live music

MusicRadar

“Anything I could spit out of my mouth - ‘Try this! Do this!’ – Sam could do it and do it a thousand times better than I could hear it in my head”: Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst hails the "magical" powers of late bassist Sam Rivers

“Such a gifted, unbelievably sweet and wonderful person"

Metal Hammer

"He had this ability to pull this beautiful sadness out of the bass": Watch Fred Durst pay tribute to late Limp Bizkit bassist Sam Rivers

Fred Durst releases video tribute to the "gifted, unbelievably sweet and wonderful" Sam Rivers

The Independent UK

Sam Rivers death: Limp Bizkit bassist dies, aged 48

Nu metal group say Rivers was ‘pulse beneath every song’

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