10 Rock Bands That Have Terrible Frontmen
1. Limp Bizkit
As much as terrible frontmen can be an albatross over the neck of some bands, it's not always that bad. So what if the guy is a little bit boring or annoying whenever you take the stage? At least you can still play your butts off and try to make up for it in some capacity. Fred Durst on the other hand...he tends to occupy a completely different universe of bad frontman.
Ever since Significant Other, Durst has turned Limp Bizkit into one of the more infamously bad bands to focus on for more than one song, turning potentially good bits into some of the more cringier lines of the nu metal genre. Even if you dug on this brand of nu metal back in the day, something like My Way or Eat You Alive have definitely not held up nearly as well as you remember.
No big deal...we still have people like DJ Lethal and Wes Borland to bring us out of the doldrums, right? While you'd be correct about the chops these players have, Durst's presence tends to muddy things up so much that it's all you can focus on for the remainder of the track. Aside from the bad writing and the bro-centric ethos, Fred Durst might be the one frontman who is capable of actively nullifying good talent in whichever song he touches.