10 Rock Guitarists That Are Impossible To Duplicate

Once you take a look back to the nu metal genre, you start to cringe a little bit whenever Limp Bizkit is brought up. As much as the sounds of something like Break Stuff may have sounded like the hardest rock at the time, the bars that Fred Durst was spitting at the time have really started to age like milk as the years go by. Which is a shame considering the amazing man behind the six string just to the side of the stage.

Despite his insane costumes that he would wear every time he got onstage, Wes Borland really did dress in a similar way to how he played, going for off the wall sounds that no one was thinking of at the time. Even though everything came back to the jagged riffs on songs like Nookie, what's happening in between the slamming choruses had never been heard before, especially when Wes favored certain tapping licks on the guitar.

If anything, Borland's style feels like it doesn't belong in the nu metal genre at all, sounding a lot more like a guitar led version of what Les Claypool was doing in Primus around the same time. Every genre needs a virtuoso though, and Wes Borland is one of the main reasons why going back to those old Limp Bizkit albums is sometimes worth it.