Limp Bizkit
Chocolate Starfish

Hello to all DeBaserians, this is my first review, and I would like to talk to you about my favorite album: "Chocolate Starfish" by "the limp biscuit," one of my favorite bands along with Deftones, Slipknot, Cannibal Corpse, Slayer, Incubus, and Breaking Benjamin.

I bought this album originally, and it fascinated me from the start, from the very first songs, for its beauty and compactness. Limp Bizkit is an alternative metal band that mixes and blends metal and rock with rap, funk, and hip-hop sounds, relying on the help of a talented guitarist like Wes Borland, a phenomenal DJ Lethal (already with House Of Pain), a fantastic rock/rap singer Fred Durst, and two others whose names I don't know. In short, Limp Bizkit is like a poppier Korn and a rap-heavier Rage Against The Machine.

The album opens with an intro well played by "Lethal," one of the best pieces on the entire album, then follows "Hot Dog," one of the songs that give the album its name; it's a great mix between rock and funk with a hint of electronic. The third track features the famous and pseudo-grunge "My Generation," in which Fred Durst seems like a Kurt Cobain in love with rap. "Full Nelson" is pretty lousy; I never listen to it, while the following "My Way" is pure street hip rock where Freddy sings like a god and at times reminds me of Jhonatan Davis from Korn. My favorite song on the album remains "Rollin'": the guitarist plays with ruthless strings, the drummer almost ends up breaking the drums, being a very violent song, almost Slayer-like, even Fred struggles to sing it because it's so "heavy," and the DJ moves his turntables at lightning speed! The other three tracks are quite nice and remind me a lot of Limp Bizkit from the first album, being much more focused on metal and rock than rap. And then comes another masterpiece: "Take A Look Around" rocks like a train heading towards a house! In my opinion, the drummer's sticks were about to break; in fact, during a tour, he had to change sticks five times because the song is so hard and tough!

Freddino moves like a true agent 007, and he's as agile as Tom Cruise, the protagonist of the movie "Mission Impossible," from which the main theme of the song is taken, really heavy stuff: tough stuff, guys! Of the remaining tracks, "Hold On" stands out as very rap and not much rock, but that's fine, and finally, the remix of "Rollin'" with Method Man, Redman, and DMX, very, very heavy and hip-hop style. As the last track, there is the beautiful "outro," a song rich in passion with a capital P, where the DJ showcases all his skills with his records at the speed of light. In conclusion, I would recommend this album to all pop/rock and metal music lovers: especially for those who watch MTV, a beautiful program where Limp Bizkit was always played loudly, in place of bad bands like Dream Theater, Iron Maiden, Metallica, and Stratovarius.

Don't miss my next review on Cannibal Corpse.