Limp Bizkit announces new CD, tour

NEW YORK, Feb. 12 (UPI) -- The original members of the U.S. rock band Limp Bizkit are working on a new album and planning a world tour, Interscope Records said Thursday.

The upcoming CD marks the group's first full-length effort since 2000. Fred Durst, Wes Borland, Sam Rivers, John Otto and D.J. Lethal are all onboard for the project.

"We decided we were more disgusted and bored with the state of heavy popular music than we were with each other," Durst and Borland said in a join statement. "Regardless of where our separate paths have taken us, we recognize there is a powerful and unique energy with this particular group of people we have not found anywhere else. This is why Limp Bizkit is back."

The band is to kick off a world tour in the spring on the overseas festival circuit with headline shows sprinkled in throughout Europe. Selected dates include, in late May, Russia, Ukraine, and the Baltic countries where Limp Bizkit has never played before, along with major festivals like Rock Am Ring and Rock Im Park in Germany.

More dates will be announced shortly, the band said.

Limp Bizkit's first three albums have sold more than 20 million copies in the United States and another 13 million in the rest of the world, Interscope Records noted.