Alright Limp Bizkit fans, we know you're out there. This week's featured artist is Wes Borland! 

Born Wesley Louden Borland February 7th 1975,he is an American rock musician best known as the current guitarist and backing vocalist of the rap metal band Limp Bizkit. He is also known as leader of the one-man alternative and industrial rock band Black Light Burns, and the co-founder of experimental metal band Big Dumb Face.

He gained popularity when Limp Bizkit achieved mainstream success in the late 1990s and early 2000s. He formed Big Dumb Face with his brother Scott in 1998 and left Limp Bizkit in 2001 to start side projects including Eat the Day and The Damning Well. After rejoining Limp Bizkit in 2004, Borland founded Black Light Burns, with whom he has released three studio albums and a covers album. Limp Bizkit went on hiatus following the release of their album The Unquestionable Truth (Part 1) (2005). However, the band's original lineup reunited in 2009 and recorded their fifth studio album, Gold Cobra (2011). In 2016, Borland released his solo album Crystal Machete. Limp Bizkit’s most recent album, “(Limp Bizkit) Still Sucks” was released on Halloween 2021. 

Borland is known for his sonic experimentation and elaborate visual appearance, which has included face and body paint, masks and uniforms. He has drawn album covers and created artwork for many of his music projects as well as oil paintings. Borland was voted number 37 in Total Guitar's Top 100 Guitarists of All Time. Borland formed the label Edison Sound, which releases his own music projects.

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Borland's guitar playing is experimental and nontraditional, and he is noted for his creative use of six and seven-string guitars. “Three Dollar Bill, Yall” features him playing without a guitar pick, performing with two hands, one playing melodic notes, and the other playing chord progressions. His guitar playing has made use of octave shapes, and choppy, eighth-note rhythms, sometimes accompanied by muting his strings with his left hand, creating a percussive sound. Borland has also made use of unevenly accented syncopated sixteenth notes to create a disorienting effect, and hypnotic, droning licks. 

Check below for a live performance and tab of the Black Light Burns song “Lie”!

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TAB: https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/black-light-burns/lie-tabs-571426

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