Limp Bizkit

Limp Bizkit is an influental American Rapcore band and with Ko?n, are often credited with the popularization of the genre sometimes dubbed nu metal. The band is signed to Interscope Records/Geffen Records. For a short time, the band spelled their name in lowercase (limpbizkit).

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American - Rapcore - Ko?n - Nu metal

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Frequently, the genre the band plays is referred to as rage rock, a genre specifically promoted by Viacom, (owner of the American music channel MTV), for the teenage audience. Their albums have sold over 16 million copies in the United States.

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Rage rock - Viacom - MTV - United States

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Limp Bizkit consists of singer Fred Durst, guitarist Wes Borland, bassist Sam Rivers, drummer John Otto, and turntablist/sampler player DJ Lethal. (Otto and Rivers are cousins). Borland was with them for their first three albums, and did the cover art for the last two, but left in 2001. Borland was replaced by Mike Smith (formerly of the band Snot), however in August 2004, Borland returned to Limp Bizkit.

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Fred Durst - Wes Borland - Sam Rivers - John Otto - Turntablist - Sampler - DJ Lethal - Cousin - Mike Smith - Snot - August - 2004

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Though Limp Bizkit have found major success and sold millions of records, critics have usually not been as enthusiastic as the consumers. Detractors have said the group are “cartoonish” http://www.jamshowbiz.com/JamMusicArtistsL/limpbizkit.html and make “cotton candy music.” http://www.nme.com/news/11204.htm. Music critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine (who had earlier given an approving review to a Limp Bizkit record http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=10:bcez97rkkr5t) once suggested that Durst was "the worst frontman in the history of rock." http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:6xsyxddb4olj~T1 Even today Limp Bizkit remain extremely controversial. Many heavy metal fans claim that Limp Bizkit is one of the worst things that ever happened to rock, some even dismiss it from the genre altogether.

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Cartoon - Cotton candy - Stephen Thomas Erlewine - Frontman - Controversial

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