Limp Bizkit

"It's kind of a combination," explains Wes Borland, the guitarist of many faces. "It's a third level as a combination of Significant
Other and Three Dollar Bill, Y'all$, kind of the heaviness of Three Dollar Bill, Y'all$ but more mature and focused in a better way."

Adds drummer John Otto, "It's us with different edges."

On Chocolate St*rfish, those edges are the product of growth, maturity, and the confidence that comes from being one of the
world's most distinctive, popular, and, when necessary, controversial bands. "People are aftaid of this band," says Borland, who
makes that observation with a certain degree of pride. After all, a hint of danger has always been one of the vanguards of rock n'
roll.

Limp Bizkit formed six years ago in Jacksonville, an assemblage of visionaries brought together by frontman Fred Durst, a former
Navy plebe turned tattoo artist who'd been writing raps since he was 14. The collision of sensibilities between Durst, Otto, Borland,
bassist Sam Rivers and House of Pain DJ Lethal formed a synthesis that was entirely of its time, a sonic barrage of crunchy power
chords, phat grooves and psycho-delic loops that was without precedent- at least all under the same roof.

The 1997 debut Three Dollar Bill, Y'all$ ushered Limp Bizkit inot the platinum house, thanks to an irreverent hit remake of George
Michael's "Faith" and an attention-getting spot on the 1998 OZZFest bill, with its famous giant toilet stage prop. But Limp Bizkit
really ascended to te throne with 1999's Significant Other, a ranting, raging masterpiece that debuted at No. 1 on Billboard Top 200,
selling 634,874 copies during its first week of release and went on to sell more than six million copies.

As Durst notes on the new album, Lim Bizkit "crawled up you butt somehow/and that's when things got turned around," and what
followed was a torrent of activity and accolades that left scorched earth and happily spent mosh pits. With the hits – "Nookie,"
"Rearranged," "Break Stuff" – as a soundtrack played at the WHFStival in Washington, D.C., and at Woodstock '99 in Rome, N.Y.,
and it headlined the 1999 Family Values tour. Durst was named a Senior Vice-President at Interscope and started his own label,
Flawless; he also signed on to direct the films "Nature's Cure" and "Runt." Rivers, meanwhile, was named the Best Rock Bass
Player at the 2000 Orville H. Gibson Guitar Awards.

And as it set out to start work on what would become Chocolate St*rfish, Limp Bizkit was also tapped to record the theme song for
Mission Impossible 2, scoring a summer hit with "Take a Look Around" which is also featured on the new album.

The keywords for Chocolate St*rfish were bigger, badder, harder, heavier, phatter, funkier…you get the idea. "There's a lot of really
good melody, and everything about every part is pretty catchy," says Otto. "It's new and really melodic. There's all kinds of
different hooks going on within the music. You could listen to the music by itself, really, but once the vocals get over and Lee does
all his DJ stuff, it takes it up to that enormous, killer level."