The most terrible band of the past 15 years. Everything about them sucks. This fact has been
well documented in countless web pages, reviews, and articles all over the
Internet so I won'
t go into many details. Fred Durst is a closet egomaniac; the fact that he just happened to be oafing around in the right place at the right time when the music industry went through another in a
long series of bizarre, unexpected detours through inexplicable-trend-land and the spotlight fell on dudes with baggy
pants, downtuned guitars, and borderline-retarded grunting in place of actual vocals has filled him with the worst kind of foolish, brash pride that has been
well documented by concert promoters, radio staff, and various other industry insiders. Wes Borland is not talented; he just owns a lot of stomp boxes. I'm not a "
hater"; I just have ears. Their new record, which appears to be some kind of awful attempt at making a political/social statement, debuted at #
24 on the Billboard
Top 200 and sold about 37,000 copies it's first week out, which subsequently slid to
12,000 copies when week two rolled around. Ouch. So much for "still raking in millions", right Chase?
Fred Durst was raised in Gastonia,
North Carolina; a town about an hour from where I
live. This fact fills me with
shame.
