Limp Bizkit guitarist Wes Borland has put a new spin on Metallica’s ‘Orion’, sharing a snippet with fans on Instagram.
Borland shared the trippy cover of the 1986 instrumental over the weekend, reworking the classic Metallica track ahead of his band’s upcoming shows with the thrash metal legends.
“Horsing around and loopidy loopin with ‘Orion’ by Metallica this afternoon,” he wrote alongside the video. “Anybody coming out to any of the shows this summer?”
Borland didn’t confirm whether they’d be covering the track on tour, but many fans appeared to hope so, one commenting that it “would sound amazing shaking an arena,” another saying, ”My absolute favorite instrumental just got a new paint job,” and one more adding, “I was just thinking about Orion and listened to it on Sunday. Love the reimagining you gave it.”
‘Orion’ was included on Metallica’s seminal third album ‘Master Of Puppets’, and was primarily written by bassist Cliff Burton. Six months after its release, Burton died when the band’s tour bus crashed, and the track was played over speakers during his funeral. Frontman James Hetfield went on to get the notes from the song’s bridge tattooed on his arm.
Limp Bizkit, who finished their ‘Loserville’ tour of the UK and Europe earlier this month, are set to support Metallica on their ‘M72’ world tour on dates in Toronto, Nashville, Philadelphia, Tampa, Santa Clara and Denver from April to June, sharing the support slot with Ice Nine Kills from April to June.
Pantera and Suicidal Tendencies are also joining the tour for the current North America leg, alternating dates with Metallica and Ice Nine Kills. When Metallica head to Australia and New Zealand in November, they’ll be joined by Suicidal Tendencies as well as Evanescence.
Limp Bizkit, meanwhile, will be playing at the North Dakota State Fair in July before heading back to the UK in August for Reading & Leeds Festival. Vocalist Fred Durst will appear at Black Sabbath’s final-ever live show in Birmingham on July 5, too.
Last November, meanwhile, the band confirmed that they were back in the studio to work on new music. Their last album was 2021’s ‘Still Sucks’, itself their first LP in a decade. In a three-star review, NME described it as a “lean and self-aware party-starter of a sixth album” and wrote: “‘Still Sucks’ doesn’t feel laboured or overthought and never overstays its welcome. Limp Bizkit aren’t out to rewrite their history or reach a new generation. They don’t care if you still think they suck – they still know how to have a good time, and won’t stop rollin’.”
In other Limp Bizkit news, ‘Rollin’ (Air Raid Vehicle)’ has been used as the theme of Netflix’s recent anime series Devil May Cry.
