We Regret To Inform You That Limp Bizkit Covered Nirvana With Marilyn Manson
Billy Corgan was also there, for some reason.
This is not the kind of sentence that you can do a gentle run-up into, so I’m afraid I’m going to have to drop you right in: because the world is a confusing and dark place, Limp Bizkit and Marilyn Manson have combined their forces to take on the very good Nirvana song ‘Heart-Shaped Box’. And the results are distressing, to say the least.
The ~star-studded~ cover took place as part of Limp Bizkit’s reunion show in Los Angeles. The nu-metal overlords have reunited their original lineup, and are going through what could generously be called a bit of a revival.
Later this year, for example, we’re going to get a film directed by the band’s Fred Durst and starring John Travolta — which is sure to be a good movie and not a living nightmare — and their much delayed new record Stampede of the Disco Elephants is apparently nearing completion.
Do you people hear me?!
?????FRED DURST IS MAKING A THRILLER CALLED “MOOSE” BASED ON HIS OWN LIFE EXPERIENCES ABOUT A CELEBRITY (DEVON SAWA) BEING MENACED BY AN OBSESSIVE STALKER (JOHN TRAVOLTA) ?????
— Scott Wampler™ (@ScottWamplerBMD) March 7, 2018
Anyway, those are the facts that explain why the band and Manson moaned and murmured their way through a Nirvana cover. But facts sometimes pale in comparison to the horrible realities of this life, and to be honest, I can’t really explain what you’re about to watch, so you might as well subject yourself to it sooner rather than later.
Oh, and if that blast of deep space existential horror wasn’t enough for you, that’s Billy Corgan chilling in the wings and watching (wearing a beanie printed with the words ‘BILLY’, presumably in case he’s too busy thinking about composing hour-long electronic pieces and forgets his own name.)
Later on, with the help of Machine Gun Kelly, Limp Bizkit also murdered one of their own songs, the vibrant ‘My Generation’.
Anyway, I’m sorry that I shared all this with you. But, to be entirely honest, I needed someone else to gaze upon the spectacle to convince me that I wasn’t losing my goddamn mind. So yeah, apologies.