LIMP BIZKIT guitarist Wes Borland performed the band’s whole 10-song set because the assist act for METALLICA on Friday (June 27) at Empower Subject at Mile Excessive in Denver, Colorado dressed up as a skull-faced model of Nineteen Eighties METALLICA frontman James Hetfield, full with a “Steel Up Your Ass” t-shirt and white high-tops. Take a look at fan-filmed video of LIMP BIZKIT‘s efficiency under.
The Denver live performance marked LIMP BIZKIT‘s remaining look with METALLICA as a part of the latter band’s ongoing “M72” world tour, which launched in April 2023 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
LIMP BIZKIT supported METALLICA on “M72” dates in Toronto, Nashville, Philadelphia, Tampa, Santa Clara and Denver from April to this previous Friday, sharing the assist slot with ICE NINE KILLS.
This previous April, Borland unveiled a reimagined model of METALLICA‘s traditional “Grasp Of Puppets” instrumental “Orion” on Instagram, writing in a caption that he was “[h]orsing round and loopidy loopin” at dwelling that afternoon.
Again in 2003, LIMP BIZKIT carried out a canopy of one other “Grasp Of Puppets” traditional, “Welcome Residence (Sanitarium)”, throughout a “mtvICON: Metallica” particular.
In a 2003 interview with Steel Edge journal, METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich was filled with reward for LIMP BIZKIT whereas discussing how the lineup for that 12 months’s “Summer time Sanitarium” tour got here collectively. He stated on the time: “Whether or not you want him otherwise you hate him, [LIMP BIZKIT frontman] Fred Durst is an innovator. Fred Durst is a fuckin’ pioneer, and I’ll yell that from each rooftop… It is actually attention-grabbing that post-‘Icon’ [MTV‘s performance tribute to METALLICA at which LIMP BIZKIT and KORN performed], there’s quite a lot of love for Durst now. On all of the METALLICA threads on our website, it is all respect to Fred Durst.”
Hetfield was apparently not as a lot of a fan of LIMP BIZKIT‘s music again within the day, telling Playboy in a 2001 interview: “LIMP BIZKIT appears a bit of cartoony to me. I do not like some man simply yelling. Like RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE — it wasn’t singing, it was just a few man form of pissed off, telling you his opinion.”