Limp Bizkit are reportedly recording again. Fan photos of the band in the studio surfaced last year, and more images and sightings have been circulating in recent weeks, suggesting work has resumed on what would be their seventh studio album — their first since Still Sucks in 2021. Nothing has been formally announced: no title, no date, no label statement. But whatever this record turns out to be, it arrives under circumstances no Limp Bizkit album ever has before.
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What’s actually been reported
Let’s be precise, because there’s less hard information here than the headlines suggest.
Photos of the band recording appeared online last year. More pictures have cropped up since, and fans have reported sightings of the band in the studio again recently. That’s the entirety of the evidence.
The band’s own most recent public comment came from Wes Borland in June, who said new songs are in the works and that Limp Bizkit are — his words — the biggest they’ve ever been right now. The plan had reportedly been to get into the studio and finish album seven, but the sheer volume of live work kept getting in the way.
So: strong smoke, no announcement. Treat accordingly.
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Why Wes Borland is the reason to stay sceptical
Here’s the context that makes this story more interesting than a straight report, and it comes from our own archive.
Back in 2022, Borland told Johnny Christ on Drinks With Johnny exactly how this has gone. His account: over roughly ten years, the band had gone into the studio to try and complete a record something like seven separate times, across different studios. They’d work on material, and work on it, and work on it — and Fred Durst would consistently be unsatisfied with where the vision was.
That album had a working title. Stampede Of The Disco Elephants. It was announced in 2013. It has still never come out. What emerged instead were one-off singles — “Ready To Go,” “Endless Slaughter” — and eventually, eight years later, Still Sucks, which was a different record entirely and arrived with no warning at all.
That’s the pattern. This band does not announce albums. They abandon them, then surprise-release something else.
So when fans spot them in a studio, the honest reading isn’t “album incoming.” It’s “attempt number eight, possibly.” Borland himself has been more open about that than anyone.
What makes this one different
And here’s the part that changes the whole story.
Sam Rivers died on October 18, 2025, at the age of 48. Founding member, co-writer, and by any serious assessment the actual musical engine of that band — the low end that made “Significant Other” and “Chocolate Starfish” move the way they did. His cause of death was never publicly disclosed.
By multiple accounts, Rivers had been working on new music with Limp Bizkit at the time of his death.
Which means the seventh Limp Bizkit album — if it happens — is the first without him, and may also be the last record to contain his playing. Whether any of that material makes the finished thing is genuinely unknown, and nobody in the band has said.
That’s a strange and heavy thing for any group to navigate, and it recontextualises Borland’s June comment about being the biggest they’ve ever been. They are. They’re also a band that just lost a quarter of its foundation, playing the biggest shows of their career while working out what a record without him even sounds like.
The band played their first show after his death in Mexico City in November 2025, opening with a tribute video, and they’ve kept it in the set since.
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Meanwhile, the live business keeps winning
This is the other half of why album seven keeps slipping.
Limp Bizkit in 2026 are enormous — genuinely bigger than they were at the peak, which is one of the strangest second acts in rock history. Written off for two decades, then handed a full cultural reappraisal by an audience that mostly wasn’t alive for Woodstock ’99.
They’re headlining Louder Than Life next month in Louisville alongside Iron Maiden, Tool and My Chemical Romance, on a bill of nearly two hundred bands. They’re booked for Good Things in Australia. The festival routing alone would exhaust most bands half their age.
When the touring is that lucrative and the album has stalled seven times, it’s not hard to see which one keeps getting priority.
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Where the catalogue actually stands
For anyone keeping count: six studio albums. Three Dollar Bill, Y’all (1997), Significant Other (1999), Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water (2000), Results May Vary (2003), Gold Cobra (2011) and Still Sucks (2021).
Forty million records sold. Three Grammy nominations, no wins. And a legacy that’s swung from ubiquitous to punchline to genuinely respected — they sit comfortably on our ranking of the most essential nu metal bands ever, and their fingerprints are all over the 90s metal landscape that produced them.
The gaps between records have been eight years and ten years. It’s been five since Still Sucks. By their own standards, they’re not even late yet.
TL;DR
- What’s reported: fan photos and sightings suggest Limp Bizkit are back in the studio working on their seventh album. Nothing has been officially announced.
- The band’s last word: Wes Borland said in June 2026 that new songs are in the works and the band are the biggest they’ve ever been.
- Why to stay sceptical: Borland told us in 2022 that the band had attempted to complete a record roughly seven times over a decade, with Fred Durst consistently unsatisfied. The long-announced Stampede Of The Disco Elephants never materialised.
- What’s changed: founding bassist Sam Rivers died on October 18, 2025, aged 48. Reports indicate he had been working on new material with the band beforehand.
- The open question: whether any of Rivers’ final recordings appear on the album. Neither the band nor anyone else has said.
- Last album: Still Sucks, October 2021 — released as a surprise with no announcement cycle.
FAQ
Is there a new Limp Bizkit album coming?
Possibly. Fan photos and sightings suggest the band have returned to the studio to work on their seventh studio album, and guitarist Wes Borland said in June 2026 that new songs are in the works. However, no title, release date or label announcement has been made, and the band has a long history of starting and abandoning records.
When was Limp Bizkit’s last album?
Still Sucks, released in October 2021. It was their sixth studio album and arrived as a surprise release with no conventional announcement cycle, ten years after 2011’s Gold Cobra.
What happened to Stampede Of The Disco Elephants?
It was announced as the band’s next album in 2013 and never released. Wes Borland said in 2022 that the band had gone into the studio around seven separate times over roughly a decade trying to complete a record, with Fred Durst consistently unsatisfied with the direction. Standalone singles “Ready To Go” and “Endless Slaughter” emerged from those sessions instead.
Will the new Limp Bizkit album feature Sam Rivers?
Unknown. Rivers, a founding member and the band’s bassist, died on October 18, 2025 at the age of 48. Reports indicate he had been working on new music with Limp Bizkit prior to his death, but the band has not said whether any of that material will appear on a future release.
Where are Limp Bizkit playing in 2026?
They headline Louder Than Life in Louisville, Kentucky, running September 17–20, alongside Iron Maiden, Tool, Pantera and My Chemical Romance on a bill of nearly 200 bands. They are also booked for Good Things festival in Australia.
Attempt number eight, maybe — and the first one without Sam. Do you want a new Limp Bizkit record, or is the live show enough? Tell us below, and keep it locked on the Loaded Radio stream — follow Loaded Radio for daily rock and metal news.
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