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“I think the only person I’ve ever turned down is Will Smith to be in the Men In Black 2 video.”
Wes Borland is set to release a new Big Dumb Face album, ‘Where Is Duke Lion? He’s Dead…’, appropriately enough on Halloween. The sequel to 2001’s ‘Duke Lion Fights the Terror!!’, it raids the musical dressing-up box to include death metal, electronic noise, steel pan samples and grindcore. As the moniker suggests, it doesn’t take itself overly seriously. NME caught up with the eccentric Limp Bizkit guitarist to talk time-travelling severed heads, turning down Will Smith and why some people still find Fred Durst and co “bozos”.
What are you up to today, Wes?
“I’m burning the candle at both ends, trying to make puppets for a video right now. The single is called ‘Jesus Retreats’ and it’s about good losing and evil winning, which is just like what goes on today in the world [laughs]. So the whole Big Dumb Face record is about the death of the hero of the first record – Duke Lion – and how hell takes over the earth, the universe and everything. So the video is going to be a puppet Jesus running from demons the whole time.”
Why did you decide to revive the Big Dumb Face project after 16 years?
“Well, one of the things is that I said I’d never do it again – and I’m into doing things now that I said I would never do again. Another thing is I got inspired by all of these ridiculous, unnecessary and unwarranted sequels to movies that happened a long time ago (Laughs). I thought, ‘if it’s working for them, maybe it would work for me!’. The main reason is I put out a solo record last year that was really not heavy at all and I wanted to make a really heavy record.”
How did you approach it?
“I mean, I really approached it like it’s a Hanna-Barbera [animation] or He-Man, like it’s a silly fantasy cartoon. People who liked…
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