After successfully striking out on their own, Cold briefly rejoined with Fred Durst to represent for Jacksonville, Florida.

The band and its one-time mentor united in the studio to work on a melancholy ballad called "Check Please," which will appear on an upcoming soundtrack. Durst produced and Cold performed the acoustic song. While both parties loved the results, the cut didn't fit in with the rest of Cold's upcoming record, Year of the Spider, which was produced by Howard Benson (P.O.D., Blindside) and is set for an April 29 release (see [article id="1470327"]"Cold Pair Up With Weezer Frontman For 'Stupid Girl,' Battle Giant Spiders"[/article]).

"Compared to the production of Year of the Spider, it had differences," Cold frontman Scooter Ward explained. "I wanted everything to sound familiar and uniform. I didn't want to break that up. So I decided to take that song and save it."

It wasn't the first time "Check Please" was put on the shelf. Ward actually wrote the song for the demo that got the band signed to Flip Records in 1997. The other track on the tape, "Ugly," was included on the band's 1998 self-titled debut.

"For some reason, we just didn't record 'Check Please' for that record," Ward said. "Then, on this album, Fred called and he was like, 'Dude, it's your third record. You still haven't put the song out. That's one of the best songs you guys have.' And I went, 'If you want to produce it, you should. You were there and you know where I was coming from when I did it.' So we went in the studio and did it."

Cold's association with Limp Bizkit goes way back. The bands used to play together in and around Jacksonville before either were signed.

"We started the Jacksonville scene with Limp Bizkit," Ward said. "Now there's other bands getting signed out there, but there was nothing back then. It was the Bible Belt, and before Limp Bizkit got signed, there was only one place to play, and it was a dive."

When Limp Bizkit started making a name for themselves, they turned producer Ross Robinson on to Cold, then helped the group get a deal with Flip Records, whose owner, Jordan Schur, was executive producer on Bizkit's first album, Three Dollar Bill Y'All.

Durst stepped behind the board and did some production work for the group's second record, 13 Ways to Bleed on Stage. He also shot the band's videos for "Thirteen" (which featured Staind's Aaron Lewis) and "No One" (see [article id="1441864"]"Video For Cold's 'No One' A Nightmare For Director Durst"[/article]).

Durst was happy to produce "Check Please," but there are no plans to tour together and he's got little time to hang with his former pal. In fact, these days his contact with Ward is pretty minimal.

"At the beginning of Flip Records, it was us, Staind and Limp Bizkit and we were like a tight family," Ward remembered. "But everybody pretty much went their own ways. We're still cool with each other, but it's not like it used to be."