Breathe in, now breathe out New Zealand. The good times just keep on rollin in 2023, and this November LIMP BIZKIT, aka one of the most defining nu metal bands of all time, are bringing the Dad Vibes and all your classic faves to Aucklands Spark Arena for a headline sideshow on Sunday 26 November with special guests HANABIE. en route to Good Things Festival in Australia.
A rare few can boast the staying power and permeating legacy of a band like LIMP BIZKIT. Forged in Florida in the mid 90s with a raucous fusion of rock, metal and hip hop, LIMP BIZKITs staggering legacy cemented in 1997 via their innovative debut album Three Dollar Bill, Yall, with their angsty odes and genre-blurring ultimately influencing the nu metal stampede that catapulted into the mainstream.
Now boasting six studio albums, including their #1 charting albums Significant Other (1999) and Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water (2000) as well as their most recent full length Still Sucks (2021), LIMP BIZKIT have also received three Grammy Award nominations, wins at the Billboard Music Awards and Kerrang! Awards, and an induction into MTVs Total Request Live Hall of Fame in 2001. And with multiple platinum albums already under their belts and over 13 million monthly dedicated listeners on Spotify alone, LIMP BIZKITs fanbase continues to explode globally, as do their monstrous live performances.
A band who can party like its 1999 multiple decades on, LIMP BIZKITs palpitating array of rock, metal, rap and beyond is as potent as ever, inciting mosh pits and rocknroll rebellion in a way only frontman Fred Durst and co. truly can. From their generation-defining singles like Break Stuff, Rollin (Air Raid Vehicle) and Nookie to newer cuts that keep the party vibes ferociously pumping, its undeniable that LIMP BIZKIT as as electrifying now as they were when nu metal first reigned supreme.
Forming in 2015, Japanese metalcore outfit HANABIE. blend metal, hardcore, hip hop, electronica and J-pop with Harajuku-inspired aesthetics. Brandishing their secret weapons, pop, genre-less music and kawaii neo-Japanese style, HANABIE. also embrace tongue-in-cheek lyricism, as witnessed most recently on their 2023 album Reborn Superstar! as well as on their debut 2021 full length Girls Reform Manifest. Previously performing at Aftershock, Louder Than Life and Blue Ridge Rock Festival, HANABIE. are a breath of sharpened fresh air in the heavy realms, and a must-see in a live setting.
