WES BORLAND Says LIMP BIZKIT Has ‘Ammo’ For New Music As Seventh Studio Album Starts Taking Shape

Summary

• Limp Bizkit members have returned to the studio in Nashville, adding weight to plans for the band’s seventh album.
• The record would follow 2021’s Still Sucks, although no title or release date has been announced.
• The sessions arrive as Limp Bizkit enjoys a major popularity surge, with huge festival crowds and roughly 23 million monthly Spotify listeners.

Limp Bizkit appear to be back in the studio, putting fresh weight behind the possibility that the band’s long-discussed seventh studio album is finally moving forward. Recent photos and reports place Fred Durst, Wes Borland and other members working with producer Benjamin Grizzell in Nashville, just as the group enjoys one of the busiest periods of its career.

The important qualifier is “appear.” Limp Bizkit has not formally announced a seventh album, revealed a title or set a release date. Still, the latest studio activity lines up remarkably well with what guitarist Wes Borland said earlier this summer.

Speaking around the band’s Download Festival appearance in June, Borland revealed that Limp Bizkit had reserved time in August to write and revisit material accumulated during previous sessions. He said he and Durst had already gone through old riffs and ideas they had forgotten about, giving the band what he described as some “ammo” for another round of writing.

August arrived, and apparently so did Limp Bizkit.

Limp Bizkit members spotted working in Nashville studio

Reports began circulating in mid-August after new studio photos surfaced online. The images reportedly show Fred Durst, Wes Borland, DJ Lethal and drummer John Otto alongside Nashville producer Benjamin Grizzell.

Grizzell added fuel to the speculation by describing the sessions as the “coolest job I’ve ever had” and referring to spending several weeks with the musicians.

That timing is considerably more interesting than the usual studio photo followed by six months of internet archaeology.

Borland had already outlined August as the band’s intended recording window. Earlier in 2026, he also told ABC Audio that Limp Bizkit planned to book studio time between tour dates and “start working on a new record.”

Recent activity therefore looks less like random experimentation and more like the continuation of a process the guitarist had publicly discussed for months.

Still, calling the project a completed or officially confirmed album would be getting ahead of the band. Limp Bizkit has never exactly operated according to a tidy corporate release calendar.

A seventh Limp Bizkit album would follow 2021’s ‘Still Sucks’

Limp Bizkit’s most recent studio album, Still Sucks, arrived in October 2021 and ended a decade-long wait following 2011’s Gold Cobra.

That makes the next full-length release the band’s seventh studio album, following:

Three Dollar Bill, Y’all$, Significant Other, Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water, Results May Vary, Gold Cobra and Still Sucks.

The group already broke its post-Still Sucks silence in September 2025 with “Making Love to Morgan Wallen,” its first new single in four years. The track was connected to Battlefield 6 and was written by Durst, John Otto, Sam Rivers, DJ Lethal, Wes Borland and Joel Eriksson, with Durst producing and Zakk Cervini handling mixing and mastering.

The song also performed considerably better than a novelty title might suggest. It reached the top of multiple Billboard rock-related charts, giving Limp Bizkit another curious chapter in a career that has survived several supposed expiration dates.

Limp Bizkit’s popularity surge is becoming difficult to dismiss

A new album would arrive under circumstances few would have predicted during the band’s quieter years.

Borland recently described Limp Bizkit as bigger than they have ever been, while admitting that even the members themselves are somewhat puzzled by the scale of the resurgence.

“We can’t believe it,” he said when discussing the band’s current popularity, suggesting that improved relationships inside Limp Bizkit and their enjoyment of playing together may be translating to audiences. He also pointed toward social media and nostalgia as possible factors, although he stopped short of pretending he had cracked the algorithmic code.

There is plenty of evidence beyond Borland’s enthusiasm.

Limp Bizkit finally headlined Download Festival in June 2026, 23 years after the band had originally been scheduled to headline the first edition of the festival in 2003 before withdrawing. Their 2024 appearance had already generated reports that the group attracted a crowd comparable to, or larger than, that year’s headliner Avenged Sevenfold.

Their 2026 schedule has remained packed with appearances across Europe and North America, including Rock am Ring, Rock im Park, Hellfest, Rock Fest, Inkcarceration, Louder Than Life and Aftershock.

Streaming numbers tell a similar story. Third-party Spotify tracking currently places Limp Bizkit at roughly 23 million monthly listeners, while Spotify lists “Break Stuff” above 1.2 billion streams and “Rollin’ (Air Raid Vehicle)” closing in on the billion mark.

For a band whose cultural obituary was written repeatedly during the 2000s, that is quite an inconvenient collection of numbers.

Wes Borland says the band already has material to work with

The Nashville sessions may not be starting from an empty hard drive.

Borland previously explained that he and Durst had been revisiting recordings from earlier writing sessions and rediscovering riffs that could potentially become parts of new songs. Limp Bizkit’s writing process, according to the guitarist, can move between prepared guitar ideas, Durst bringing material from home and spontaneous improvisation in the studio.

That loose method fits the band’s history.

Limp Bizkit records have rarely sounded like products assembled according to a fashionable metal template. Borland’s strange chord choices and guitar textures, DJ Lethal’s hip-hop background, John Otto’s groove-heavy drumming and Durst’s deliberately obnoxious vocal personality create something that imitators usually manage to reproduce only superficially.

Trying too hard to manufacture a “nu-metal revival album” would arguably be the easiest way to make this resurgence boring.

The smarter option is probably the one Borland has described: put everyone in a room, dig through the riffs and see which ideas survive.

The next Limp Bizkit album now has unusually high expectations

There is also a more difficult element hanging over these sessions.

Founding bassist Sam Rivers died in October 2025, leaving Limp Bizkit without one of the musicians responsible for the rhythmic character behind much of its catalog. Borland has described Rivers as a fundamental part of the band’s musical DNA. Limp Bizkit subsequently returned to touring with Richie Buxton, who has also performed with Ecca Vandal.

Any new album will therefore represent a transition as much as another release.

For the moment, Limp Bizkit has confirmed the intention to create new music, and recent evidence strongly indicates that studio work is underway. What the band has not confirmed is equally important: there is no album title, tracklist, release date or official statement declaring the seventh record finished.

Considering the group’s history, predicting when it will arrive would be a fine way to embarrass oneself.

What looks increasingly clear is that Limp Bizkit isn’t returning to the studio because it desperately needs a comeback. The comeback has already happened. The interesting question is whether Durst, Borland and company can turn their unexpectedly large second wave into a record worth hearing after the red caps, festival crowds and TikTok nostalgia inevitably move on.

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