“I’ve run out of artists I want to listen to. I find very few things that move me”: When Limp Bizkit’s Wes Borland turned to prog for musical fulfilment

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Wes Borland may have found success with Limp Bizkit, but the guitarist has long been known for a desire to roam across musical genres. In 2016 he released Crystal Machete, a solo work described as the soundtrack to a movie that was never made – and it was most definitely a prog record. But he says his latest venture, his Crystal Machete album, is the first project in which he’s truly found his own voice. I was thinking something Crystal, it couldn’t be the Crystal Sword, so it became the Crystal Machete. What do you think Wes Borland fans are going to make of Crystal Machete?