Metallica Tours With Limp Bizkit Despite Lars’ Slurs

Metallica is hitting the road with Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park for the second Summer Sanitarium tour, which will hit at least 18 U.S. markets this year, beginning July 4, and Reuters is pointing out how drummer Lars Ulrich confessed to feeling “a tremendous amount of hatred toward Limp Bizkit” in an interview with Metallica’s “So What!” fan club magazine. He had said, “All I gotta think of is Fred Durst’s red baseball cap and I get very hostile.” He also described Limp Bizkit as “a Motley Crue for the ’90s” and claimed that Durst was “so fu**ing contrived and I hate people who are contrived.” A Metallica spokesman said the rift was “ancient history,” and the band has much respect for the acts on the bill.