Wes Borland (born Wesley Louden Borland February 7, 1975 in Richmond, Virginia) is a musician, best known as the former guitarist in the band
Limp Bizkit. He has been in several other bands as well, such as The Damning Well, Goatslayer, Big Dumb Face, From First to Last and currently Black Light Burns.
Borland's family moved from Virginia to Jacksonville, Florida where his father took a pastoral job at a Presbyterian Church. In Florida,
Borland met bassist Sam Rivers, but the two did not get along due to rivalries between local bands. He went to school with John Otto. He spent his summers in Montreat, North Carolina, working in the sound booth for Montreat conference center, a Presbyterian Church institution.
