Limp Bizkit's Wes Borland has said that the Deftones' decision to walk away from nu-metal — the genre they helped pioneer, was the right move. During an episode of Dean Delray's “Let There Be Talk,” he said, “The Deftones really tried to separate themselves from everything, which was the right move, for sure. Because they were able to maintain longevity.”
Meanwhile, when asked if he though Limp Bizkit would release another album, he said, “I can’t imagine it would. I don’t really have any expectations of it because I’ve found that I have no idea what people like and don’t. I do this thing all the time where I’m like, ‘Oh, that band is gonna be huge but what do I know! Or that band’s never gonna do anything, or nobody’s gonna like that movie.'”
He continued, “And I always go, ‘But what do I know…’ Because I’m wrong all the time, I have absolutely no idea what’s gonna work and what doesn’t. Because I’m not trying to make anything work, I’m not looking at hits, I’m doing what’s inspiring to me. And if it happens to connect with people – great.”
He added, “But I’m not in a studio trying to cook up with some producers like what’s going to be the next big thing. I mean, I’m 42, it would be embarrassing for me to try to be cooking up what the next big thing was.”