12 Greatest Nu-Metal Bands Of All Time
4. Limp Bizkit
For better or for worse Limp Bizkit, and in particular Fred Durst, has become the poster child for Nu Metal music.
They were at the forefront of the genre’s surge into the mainstream after the release of their ‘Significant Other’ album in 1999 and followed that up by the equally successful ‘Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavoured Water’ in 2000.
These two albums combined sold over 14 millions copies in the U.S. alone and made Fred Durst a household name and the most unlikely of popstars during the noughties. The albums were must-haves for all angsty, white teenagers at the time, with songs such as ‘Rollin’ and ‘Break Stuff’ becoming anthems for the disillusioned youths of the early 2000s.
Limp Bizkit’s music is still remembered to this day and is often celebrated by the people who lived through it, whether that be through ironic nostalgia or as genuine guilty pleasures from their childhood.