By shelz.
In the past 15 years, Limp Bizkit has seen some incredible highs and some not so grand lows. Their ascension to the top of the rock pile included Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water pushing over a million copies in its first week of release. However, a few years later the band was without Wes Borland, promoting a universally trashed album and getting booed off the stage while touring. Fred Durst and company still refuse to step off the roller coaster ride.
Gold Cobra, their impending 5th album, hasn’t been assigned a release date yet, but it’s rumored to be dropping this year. The band has “leaked” two singles to test the waters and so far the response hasn’t been good. “Why Try” surfaced a few months ago and sounded like they were taking the title literally, but they regrouped and let loose “Walking Away.” It’s less rap, more rock and plenty of that patented Durst shriek.
The Limp Bizkit angst that was usually the B side of their hard rocking mischief is presented in full force. The track is slow and simple; a melancholy, echoing guitar and over some simple drums, giving the floor to Durst’s monologue filled with suggestions of depression and defeat. It reads like a page from an adolescent diary, which doesn’t bode well for a vocalist old enough to be raising one. The slow, bemoaning turns to fury in the last verse that Durst screams through like a man with his throat caught in a vice. Harsh.
Cutting Durst a break isn’t difficult though; he’s not the only 40 year old pandering to tormented teens. All of that screeching sounded like it was as painful to deliver as it was to hear, so at least he’s invested. Hopefully the rest of the tracks are better.
Limp Bizkit – “Walking Away”
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