How's it going lurkers? Remember the '90s Rap-Metal band, Limp Bizkit? Guitarist Wes Borland quit the Rap-Metal band for a while by 2001 for his own side projects.
Once Limp Bizkit gained popularity
during the late '90s, Wes and his brother Scott Borland, formed a
Country/New Wave/Thrash/Death Metal band called Big Dumb Face in 1998.
Big Dumb Face released its debut album, Duke Lion Fights The Terror!!! in March 2001.
According to Wes Borland, Big Dumb Face's music was "really silly and idiotic and bizarre. ... It's nothing but stupid... just all these retarded songs."
The band has
been on hiatus, since 2003. Borland also formed the band, Eat The Day with his brother, Scott Borland. However, Wes eventually abandoned the band because he was unable to find a vocalist. Therefore, Eat The Day disbanded.
The Alternative/Industrial Metal supergroup, The Damning Well was then formed after another failed "side project" in 2003. It was comprised of Wes Borland on guitars (obviously), Nine Inch Nails' Danny Lohner on bass, A Perfect Circle's Josh Freese on drums, and Filter's Richard Patrick as the vocalist.
With Richard Patrick being in The Damning Well at the time, they only recorded 2 songs together. "Awakening" was featured on the Underworld Soundtrack in 2003 and "Power" was an unreleased track, which featured Amy Lee from Evanescence.
"Power" never released because of Amy Lee's manager. Her manager was determined to be difficult, which led to The Damning Well discarding "Power."
Shortly after, Richard Patrick left The Damning Well and the band evolved into Black Light Burns in 2005.
Since Limp Bizkit still existed during 2003-2005, I don't know exactly everything that happened between that time frame.
Although, what I do know is that before quitting, fights supposedly broke out on MySpace between Wes Borland and Fred Durst. This on and off feud caused Borland to make Black Light Burns top priority over Limp Bizkit.
Wes actually formed Black Light Burns by 2004 after rejoining Limp Bizkit. Even
though Borland rejoined Limp Bizkit in '04, they went on hiatus
after releasing Limp Bizkit's Greatest Hitz album.
Wes considered
Limp Bizkit to be a "side project" and intended to go on tour with Black
Light Burns in 2006. Unfortunately, this never happened simply because Black Light Burns had
to search for another record label, since Borland left Geffen Records.
Well, at least Wes Borland DID already have a history of touring and performing with Nine Inch Nails, followed by him forming several side projects over the last decade.
During the early stages of Black Light Burns, the band was comprised of Wes Borland, Josh Freese, Danny Lohner, and Josh Eustis. On their debut album Cruel Melody, Borland was on vocals, guitars, bass, programming, percussion, synthesizers, piano, rhodes, violin, cello, and drums.
Josh Freese helped with drums and live percussion. All the while, Josh Eustis was on additional synthesizers, sound design, and engineering.
Last but not least, Danny Lohner was on additional guitars, bass, programming, and sound design, as well as being the band's producer.
Overall, I enjoyed Black Light Burns' debut album, Cruel Melody from 7 years ago. I used to watch their music videos on The International Music Feed Channel (IMF), too. Oh, how I miss that channel.
For those, who didn't already know, IMF was the international version of MTV (when MTV used to air music videos 24/7). The network only lasted for 3 years (2005-2008).
Well, I digress. So far, the only song I disliked from Black Light Burns' debut album was "4 Walls." The song sounded really cheesy. Now, "Animal" should've had its own music video.
So far, I have yet to listen to Black Light Burns' more recent albums, The Moment You Realize You're Going To Fail (2012) and Lotus Island (2013).
Since the time of being a teenager in the 1990's, I have known that most Limp Bizkit fans loved and respected Wes Borland compared to everyone else in the band.
Even with the man's spooky-looking face paint and contact lenses, most
Limp Bizkit fans loved Wes. He UPSTAGED Fred Durst and Wes wasn't the frontman of Limp Bizkit (That is probably why those 2 always fought with each other).
Wes Borland had the opportunity to not only work with Nine Inch Nails, but also work with Marilyn Manson. Everyone else in Limp Bizkit were and still are too much of wannabe hood rats, which was the main reason people didn't have any respect for most of the band.
Reasons Why Most Hated Fred Durst & Had No Respect For Limp Bizkit:
* Fred Durst throwing toddler tantrums whenever rejected, especially whenever actresses and female singers rejected him
* His divisiveness by instigating unnecessary fights, then backpedalling and crying victim the moment he knew he was in deep shit
* Burning bridges both inside and outside of his own band, Limp Bizkit,
* His massively overblown
ego (Need I say more?)
Anyway, here is a triple dose of 3 Black Light Burns for this Song Saturday.
1) Black Light Burns "Coward" [AKA The Damning Well's Unreleased Track "Power"] Cruel Melody (2003) (2007)
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