Ok, so Limp Bizkit released Gold Cobra and it's been out for a little bit now but I wasn't too compelled to go listen to it to be honest. To say that Limp Bizkit wasn't an important band when i was growing up would be a flat out lie (sometimes I wish it was true though). It's a combination of the times and the feeling of being an outsider that drew me to the band. I grew up in an era where rap and metal were being combined to make Nu-Metal. From the Linkin Parks to the System of a Downs there were thousands of Nu-Metal bands popping out everywhere. But what made Limp Bizkit different was that everyone hated them. Limp Bizkit relished in that hate and embraced it. They even had the slogan "It's Cool to be a Hater". Regardless, looking back now most of it was dribble.. HOWEVER, unlike general consensus I still LOVE "Results May Vary" . The one album without Wes on guitar, replaced by Mike Smith of Snot. It's the one album in Limp Bizkit's catalog that actually holds some level on intelligence. (Closing track, Drown, is an awesome song).
Anyways, to the review of the album.... well what can I say.... bad bad bad. They went too heavy. Which is a strange thing to say coming from a metalhead but Limp Bizkit basically thought heavy heavy heavy and muddy watered so much of their album with distortion that it just sounds ridiculous and boring. Take for example Napalm Death's first album, incredible, but no one wants to sit through that album from start to beginning. Not comparing these albums in any way but this album sufferers from bullheadedness.
With that said, Wes sounds amazing, guitar riffs are absolutely original and ripping. Lethal still has it, he still knows how to just beef up the rest of the band. Sam and Otto are still ripping rhythm players. And Fred sounds really good on this album, he usually does, but just saying there's a new fire in this one. So after all that it's hard to believe this album could suck so much.
Fred didn't lie, all I can remember from his mouth is "it's going to be heavy as shit"
or at least something to that extent. It's so heavy that the whole thing just sounds like one dribbling song. There's no uniqueness and there's no difinitive focus. It's just heavy as shit. This is the equivalent to a metalcore album but Nu-Metal. Just bland and childish. Another problem with this album are the lyrics, they're very very weak. Fred's delivery is good because he sounds so good but the lyrics are stupid. They are on a lower IQ level than stuff on Chocolate Starfish.
They took the good elements of Three Dolla Bills, Y'all (the heavy) combined it with the good elements of Significant Other (Rap) and tried to make this album. It failed.
There isn't much to say about this album after that, except that it is terrible but there are some finer points on this album.
The thing that makes this album not a complete disaster is Wes. Wes is one of those guitarists that just doesn't get the credit he deserves. All his licks are completely original and awesome. He plays like no one else and no one plays like him. It really is a shame that he hasn't gone beyond the Limp Bizkit moniker.
This album deserves a 1/10.
It's a shame really, everyone sounds and plays so well but really all the songs are boring and undefinitive. The +1 is for the interlude right before Autotune, where Fred starts singing Nookie with autotune. Quite funny, very nostalgic.
