Now Wes Borland knows how hard it is to fill a key slot in your band.

As his former bandmate Fred Durst continues to seek a replacement for Borland, the ex-Limp Bizkit guitarist is still struggling to find a lead singer for his new band, Eat the Day. Though he announced a frontman just a few months ago, Borland says he's going back to the drawing board.

In January, Borland said Adam Yas of unsigned Oakland, California, band Stalking Tom would front his post-Bizkit group (see [article id="1459498"]"Wes Borland Picks Singer For His New Band"[/article]), but on Wednesday he announced on his Web site that "it's on again."

"The search for a singer is still on," Borland's posting reads. "We are continuing to talk with Adam as well as a few other singers, but we decided to try to go public with our search one more time. We think that the way we went about the search before might have been too presumptuous of us, because we assumed that we could attract the right kind of person without letting anyone hear what our music is like."

Admitting that the flip-flop might open them up to criticism, Borland said Eat the Day felt they needed to hear more candidates before making a decision. This time Borland is asking aspiring singers to download three Eat the Day songs from their Web site, add vocals and mail or e-mail them back. "Until now, we've been fishing with no bait," he wrote. "The worm is on the hook."

The songs, which are described as "roughly tracked demos," range from the alternately thrashy and sedate Led Zeppelin-meets-Metallica metal of "Beeblicowcarapis" to a Tool-esque prog-rock piece with funk bass and garbage-pail percussion called "dAdA," and "Taste My Gun," which mixes rumbling drums with spiky, Jane's Addiction-like guitar.

Ironically, samples of Yas' vocals posted on the Stalking Tom site -- now removed -- seemed to jive with the mood of the Eat the Day demos.

Before signing Yas, Borland said he'd listened to and rejected more than 100 demos. Eat the Day were scheduled to enter the studio to record their debut in early March, though a band spokesperson was not available for comment at press time to confirm the recording schedule. Just before splitting from Bizkit, Borland released an arty, noise-filled album of bizarre rock with his side group, Big Dumb Face, called Duke Lion Fights the Terror!!

Meanwhile, Durst continues to search for Borland's replacement. On Sunday, Durst wrote on the Bizkit Web site that he'd all but finished mixing the band's first post-Borland album of new material, Bipolar, due May 13.

Potential Eat the Day singers are encouraged to e-mail submissions to band@eattheday.com or mail them to P.O. Box #103, 1954 Hillhurst Ave., Los Feliz, CA 90027.