LIMP BIZKIT guitarist Wes Borland performed the band’s complete 10-song set because the help act for METALLICA on Friday (June 27) at Empower Discipline at Mile Excessive in Denver, Colorado dressed up as a skull-faced model of Eighties METALLICA frontman James Hetfield, full with a “Steel Up Your Ass” t-shirt and white high-tops. Try fan-filmed video of LIMP BIZKIT‘s efficiency under.
The Denver live performance marked LIMP BIZKIT‘s closing look with METALLICA as a part of the latter band’s ongoing “M72” world tour, which launched in April 2023 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
LIMP BIZKIT supported METALLICA on “M72” dates in Toronto, Nashville, Philadelphia, Tampa, Santa Clara and Denver from April to this previous Friday, sharing the help slot with ICE NINE KILLS.
This previous April, Borland unveiled a reimagined model of METALLICA‘s traditional “Grasp Of Puppets” instrumental “Orion” on Instagram, writing in a caption that he was “[h]orsing round and loopidy loopin” at dwelling that afternoon.
Again in 2003, LIMP BIZKIT carried out a canopy of one other “Grasp Of Puppets” traditional, “Welcome Dwelling (Sanitarium)”, throughout a “mtvICON: Metallica” particular.
In a 2003 interview with Steel Edge journal, METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich was filled with reward for LIMP BIZKIT whereas discussing how the lineup for that yr’s “Summer season Sanitarium” tour got here collectively. He stated on the time: “Whether or not you want him otherwise you hate him, [LIMP BIZKIT frontman] Fred Durst is an innovator. Fred Durst is a fuckin’ pioneer, and I’ll yell that from each rooftop… It is actually attention-grabbing that post-‘Icon’ [MTV‘s performance tribute to METALLICA at which LIMP BIZKIT and KORN performed], there’s lots of love for Durst now. On all of the METALLICA threads on our website online, it is all respect to Fred Durst.”
Hetfield was apparently not as a lot of a fan of LIMP BIZKIT‘s music again within the day, telling Playboy in a 2001 interview: “LIMP BIZKIT appears slightly cartoony to me. I do not like some man simply yelling. Like RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE — it wasn’t singing, it was just a few man sort of pissed off, telling you his opinion.”
