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By JEFF MAKI
Where the hell do you start with this? What is this anyway? An album with seven songs? I'm not really sure what that's all about but anyway it's the new album from none other than Limp Bizkit. This band has been through some shit the last few years. Their guitarist Wes Borland left, then rejoined the band and Limp Bizkit have now become the most hated rock band of today next to Metallica of course. And deservingly so really. Their lead man (you know 'em) Fred Durst, was all over the place for about two or three years acting like a complete jackass and making a fool of himself and the band. Some really crappy albums were released (I can't even stand to mention them here they are so bad), Fred repeatedly fell in love with any movie star he came into contact with and day after day talked a lot of shit about everything. So that brings us to now and the new release, The Unquestionable Truth Part 1.
Now I'll admit it, I was a pretty big fan of Limp Bizkit when they first burst upon the scene and along with Korn helped spawn the whole Nu-Metal genre. But after 5 years of ridiculous albums, videos, and overall just crappy music, Bizkit along with nu-metal is all but dead.
So what was next for the band? Well apparently the idea was to put out an album that sounds and borrows very heavily from Rage Against The Machine. Now there's nothing wrong with having idols and influences but this is almost a blatant rip-off at times. Take "The Truth" for example. Fred's rapping vocal style here sounds almost exactly like Zach de la Rocha. Same for "The Channel" and "The Priest" and most of the album. That's not to say that the music is entirely bad. It's actually much improved from recent efforts with Wes Borland's playing truly making a big difference in the band. The music is much darker and probably the heaviest since their debut and somewhat memorable as well. But this begs the question: How could the same band that put out "My Way," "Rollin" and "Nookie" all of a sudden become darker with politically charged lyrics as well? Who the hell knows or cares? Give them a few points for trying I guess. Nothing on this album will be on TRL or on modern rock radio stations and so far it seems to be somewhat underground. I didn't even know it had come out until stumbling across new releases.
It's hard for me to sort out all this mess, but I've come to this conclusion:
There are 2 ways to listen to this record -
1: Phase out Fred (if possible), try to get into the music, forget about all previous efforts from this band, pretend there was never a Rage Against The Machine and take in the whole twenty minutes or so of this recording.
If you succeed in 4 out of 5 of the above (I just about did), then you would probably rate the album a 6/10.
But in all reality, here would be the real rating:
2: Channel your hatred for Fred and all the nonsense of Limp Bizkit, focus on everything that could be and is wrong with this record, remember how much you hate nu-metal and you'd rate this album a 2/10. Fuck Fred.
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