nu AnD IMPROVED
You can always pinpoint the moment a rumble underfoot becomes a movement. This year, it happened on Saturday July 31, at 6.30pm, at Chicago’s Lollapalooza Festival.
“Let me make this clear,” drawled Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst, addressing a huge crowd, dressed like an extra from Starsky & Hutch in 100% polyester, complete with red aviators, a grey mop and a handlebar moustache. “This is not Woodstock ’99.”
It wasn’t. But as a vitriolic Break Stuff kicked off a pit of moshers that probably weren’t even born when it was initially released, it might as well have been. The streamed set went viral with Fred’s ‘Dad Vibes’ look breaking the internet, causing the band’s song sales to double and brewing a feverish buzz around new album Still Sucks, their first since 2011’s Gold Cobra, which dropped on Halloween. For the first time in forever, a hype had descended on Bizkit that was heavier than mere nostalgia. It was solid proof that nu metal was back.
Really, it was inevitable. Here at we’ve been
