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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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Scott Penfold digs into the Limp Bizkit studio reports on today’s Metal Breakdown Daily — what’s actually been seen, why the band’s own guitarist is the reason to stay sceptical, and what makes album seven different from every one before it. Download the free Loaded Radio App on Apple iOS and Google Play and get it every weekday morning.

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.

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

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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Back in 1971, when he was just coming off the release of his solo debut Cold Spring Harbor, the 22-year-old Billy Joel gave a college radio interview on Long Island. A recording of that interview was recently rediscovered, and now it’s about to become an animated AI film project, made by the song of a guy who worked with Billy Joel early on and who has been effectively erased from the Billy Joel narrative. That AI movie, which looks horrifying, is just one of several forthcoming unauthorized film projects about Billy Joel’s early years.

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John Mitchell, guitarist, singer-songwriter and producer known for his work with  a variety of bands like It Bites, Frost*and Arena has 2 albums coming out this year, one with Asia and one with Lonely Robot. The final Lonely Robot album. An Ending will be released on September 11th, 2026. Meanwhile, the new Asia album, Indigo is due out on November 6th.

On this new podcast, Mitchell talks about both albums and more.

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Over five albums, Mitchell has followed an astronaut stranded in space, unable to return home. He gazes down at that pale blue dot and asks the kind of questions Sagan spent his life wrestling with. What are we? Why do we behave as we do? What does it mean to be human? The first three Lonely Robot albums looked outward at our species. The fourth and fifth turned the lens inward, as the same frailties the astronaut had observed in humanity, he began to recognise in himself. The grand philosophical questions became something far more personal. The big picture and the individual life are, it turns out, the same thing.

More than four decades after redefining the sound of melodic progressive rock, Asia return in 2026 with “Indigo” – a studio album that bridges past, present, and future with remarkable grace and authenticity. Now featuring Geoffrey Downes alongside an inspired new lineup—Virgil Donati, John Mitchell, and Harry Whitley—Asia step confidently into a new era while honoring the legacy that made them one of the most iconic supergroups of all time. Recorded throughout 2025 and produced by Downes and the band, with mixing and mastering handled by John Mitchell, “Indigo” captures the unmistakable spirit of Asia while injecting it with renewed vitality and purpose.

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After two and a half weeks of reports, pushback, a deleted band statement and a round of public walk-backs, Sid Wilson has confirmed he is out of Slipknot. He didn’t post about it. He didn’t record a video. He quietly updated his Instagram bio to read “@slipknot 1997-2026” — past tense, with an end date attached. It’s the most definitive thing anyone involved has said since this started, and it took three characters to say it. It also puts a start date on his tenure that doesn’t match the official record.

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The quietest confirmation possible

There’s something almost perfect about this.

For eighteen days, everybody talked. TMZ reported. The band posted and deleted. Jim Root told fans not to believe what they read, then walked it back. A bandmate’s spouse posted a Ferris Bueller quote. Fan communities dissected every syllable.

And the one person at the centre of it said nothing the entire time — until he changed a line on a profile page.

“@slipknot 1997-2026.” That’s it. No explanation, no bitterness, no thank-you-to-the-fans essay. Just a start date, a dash, and an end date.

If you’ve followed Sid Wilson for any length of time, that lands exactly right. This is the guy who spent twenty-nine years communicating through a gas mask and a turntable. Of course he ended it with punctuation.

Hang on — 1997?

Here’s the detail everyone else has skipped past, and it’s genuinely interesting.

The record says Wilson joined Slipknot in 1998, shortly before the self-titled debut. That’s the date in every band biography, every discography, and in our own coverage of his departure last week, which described a 28-year run.

His bio says 1997.

That’s a full year earlier — which would place him in the fold during the Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat. era, before the Roadrunner deal, when the band were still a Des Moines operation figuring out what they were. Twenty-nine years, by his count, not twenty-eight.

There are two readings. Either he’s dating it from when he first started hanging around and working with the band rather than from a formal joining date — which is extremely common in bands that formed out of a local scene — or the accepted record has been slightly off this whole time and nobody noticed because nobody had a reason to check.

Either way, it’s his tenure and that’s his number. Worth noting that when a man writes his own epitaph for a 29-year job, he probably gets to pick the start date.

How we got here, in order

The full timeline, because it’s been chaotic enough that people have lost the thread.

July 31 — TMZ reports Wilson has been permanently removed from Slipknot. Per that report, the band had intended to announce it themselves in early August and lost control of the rollout.

July 31 — Jim Root posts to Instagram Stories, soundtracked by “‘Til We Die,” telling people not to believe everything they read and to wait for more information. Widely read as a denial.

August 3 — TMZ follows up, reporting the decision followed the band having had enough of Wilson’s behaviour toward his bandmates. That characterisation is TMZ’s; Slipknot have never said anything of the kind.

August 12 — Wilson co-hosts the World Scratch Invitational and introduces himself as Sid, DJ Starscream, number zero, from the world famous Slipknot. Present tense.

August 14 — Slipknot post a one-sentence statement confirming they are no longer associated with Wilson, effective immediately, wishing him the best. They delete it the same day.

August 15 — A comment attributed to Root circulates in which he concedes he didn’t know what to believe when he made the original post and that it didn’t age well. Stacy Thomson, wife of guitarist Mick Thomson, says the report wasn’t true at the time it was published.

August 16 — Wilson updates his bio. Done.

Eighteen days, and the only unambiguous statement in the entire sequence came from the man who never spoke.

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Nobody has said why

That remains true, and it’s worth stating plainly rather than filling the gap with theories.

Slipknot’s statement gave no reason. Wilson’s bio gives no reason. The only stated explanation anywhere is TMZ’s, and it’s a characterisation from an outlet the band never confirmed to.

So the honest position is: a 29-year member is gone, both sides have acknowledged it, and neither has explained it. Anyone telling you more than that is guessing.

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What Slipknot lose

It’s easy to reduce Wilson to “the DJ.” That badly undersells what he did in that band.

He was #0 — the only member with a zero, sitting at both the bottom and the top of the numbering at once. His work was the connective tissue: the samples, the scratching, the atmosphere and dread underneath the guitars. It’s the layer you don’t consciously register until it’s absent and the songs feel smaller.

Live, he was the most physically reckless member of a band built on physical recklessness. Climbing the rig. Jumping from things nobody should jump from. Catching fire more than once. If you saw Slipknot in the early 2000s, some of your sharpest memories of that night involve Sid doing something genuinely dangerous in a gas mask.

He was also more musically embedded than his role suggested — one quarter of the core behind Look Outside Your Window, the experimental side record with Corey Taylor, Clown and Root that finally saw release this year after more than a decade in limbo.

And he was, right through to the end, one of the band’s great communicators with the fanbase — the one teasing the maggots to say goodbye ahead of the 25th anniversary era, and a constant presence during the new mask rollouts.

His exit is the fourth since 2019, after Chris Fehn, Craig Jones and Jay Weinberg, and it leaves four members of the original numbered lineup still standing: Root, Clown, Mick Thomson and Corey Taylor. Our breakdown of the current Slipknot lineup has been updated, and the full history of every lineup change puts this one in context.

Slipknot haven’t played live since Inkcarceration in July 2025. Whatever comes next, it comes without #0.

TL;DR

• What happened: Sid Wilson confirmed his Slipknot exit by updating his Instagram bio to read “@slipknot 1997-2026.” No statement, no video, no explanation.
• The detail nobody else flagged: he dates his tenure from 1997. The accepted record — including our own earlier coverage — has him joining in 1998, before the self-titled debut.
• How long the saga ran: eighteen days, from TMZ’s July 31 report to the bio edit on August 16.
• What’s still unexplained: neither Slipknot nor Wilson has given a reason. The only stated explanation is TMZ’s characterisation, which the band never confirmed.
• Where it leaves the band: Wilson’s is the fourth departure since 2019, leaving Jim Root, Clown, Mick Thomson and Corey Taylor from the original numbered lineup.

FAQ

Twenty-nine years by his own count, ended with a dash and a date. Fitting for #0, or did the maggots deserve more than that? 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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Chicago’s own Queen of Blues Rock Guitar Joanna Connor returns with a live album titled Live On 11/11. The explosive live set recorded at The Fallout Shelter in Norwood Massachusetts, will be released on August 21 via M.C. Records. This 10-track record captures the raw energy and spontaneity of a live performance, where music is enjoyed in its purest form.

“Cissy Strut” has swagger aplenty, and goes well beyond blues rock, it fuses it with funk and jazz. This jam tune is a true showcase of musicianship within the group and Joanna uses it as a platform to introduce the band. Everybody gets the spotlight: juicy drum fills bouncing off cymbals, tasty keyboard parts, cheeky bass guitar, sizzling guitar solos, you name it. This tune must be a treat to witness live. “Shake Your Moneymaker” turns it up even further with biting guitar tone and Joanna’s signature slide licks. Midway through the track the band brings the dynamic right down. The rushing drum beat turns into a subtle swing accompanied by a walking bass line, and the band starts building once again, slowly, one step at a time into a crazy jam. Just wow!

Joanna noodles on clean guitar in minor key before starting her own spin on another classic that is “The Sky Is Crying”. The intro is sprinkled with jazzy octaves and that volume-knob-controlled legato effect. Another great, dynamic performance by the whole band throughout the song, but to me, Connor’s soulful vocals in the verse are the highlight of this rendition. This is followed by a laid-back version of “Further On Up The Road” featuring some very Allmanesque solos.

“You’re So Fine” adds that dirty blues vibe to the mix. Amazing piano solo is followed by an absolute blues guitar masterclass from Joanna. The audience reaction before “Are You Going With Me” is evidence that the gig was indeed a good time. This upbeat, funky tune gave even more reason to let go and enjoy the moment. Don’t even get me started on the guitar tone in “I Just Wanna Make Love To You”, so sultry and powerful. The breaks in the bridge catch you off-guard, before Joanna delivers a knock-out solo.

“Magic Sam Boogie” fires up the audience with its relentless shuffling rhythm before giving way to a piano-led rendition of “Can’t Find My Way Home”. This wide-ranging, genre-bending, 10-track set concludes on a high, with a crazy jam on “When The Levee Breaks”. A rendition just shy of 9 minutes evidences the band chemistry and the shared joy of playing music together.

The album has got fire while remaining laid back at the same time. With Live On 11/11, Joanna Connor and the band deliver a truly memorable and blazing performance that has been captured on tape perfectly. To use the artist’s own words: “This album brings to life what I believe needed to be heard, to witness what I’ve been honing and experiencing for decades. The unit here put in miles, both pleasant and tumultuous. The resulting alchemy was worth all of it.”

The Review: 8.5/10

Can’t Miss Tracks

– Cissy Strut
– You’re So Fine
– I Just Wanna Make Love To You

The Big Hit

– I Just Wanna Make Love To You

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