"That means start jumping and singing. It doesn’t mean start burning the place down. That’s not what I meant." How a smash hit from some nu metal icons became intertwined with the most controversial music festival of the 90s

Fred Durst standing on a piece of wood in the crowd at Woodstock 99.

For some people, it’s the definitive anthem of the nu metal era: a perfect distillation of metal’s wildest and most colourful period. For others it is the exact moment that that movement jumped the shark, dropping it into farcical, dunderheaded, frat-boy nonsense. Whatever your personal thoughts, Limp Bizkit’s Break Stuff is inarguably one of the most instantly recognisable anthems in metal, over a quarter of a century after its release.

In 1998, Limp Bizkit became hot property thanks to their rather obnoxious cover of George Michael’s Faith, taken from the previous year's Three Dollar Bill, Y'all debut album, becoming an unlikely MTV hit. Their mindset afterwards, when they went into NRG Recording studios with Pantera and Soundgarden producer Terry Date for album two, was to prove they weren’t just a cover band. Nor did they want to be seen as up-and-comers riding Korn’s coattails.