Primus - The Thing That Should Not Be Lyrics

drummer sounds bored. only using half his kit.

Yay Primus!

Since Metallica is my favorite band I feel like I shouldn't like this. But damn it's so weird and so good. Primus is fucking awesome!!! \m/

Bass tone makes me orgasm

Is it weird that he sounds a lot like James Hetfield when he sings this? I mean, it's not EXACT, but it's damn near to the original song

Les Claypool DID once try to join Metallica and was denied because he was told he was too good.

partly, it was just that his style of playing was so outlandish to the band's style of playing.

Yes. But the main reason is his style of playing not fit to metallica

But he showed him that he could casue listen to the song

This is amazing!

I'd like to hear an impression of The Doors doing this

The thing that should be

'lurking beneath the sea of cheese". What if it was cathulu that killed john the fisherman?

I love the guitar tone on this

If you are meaning the main sound of this version, thats the bass guitar. Fucking Les Claypool man!

The guitar tone is utter shit, but the bass guitar sounds fucking badass. This is not how you do a metal guitar tone lol

Better than the original imo

for people who don't know, this is a cover song, not an actual song by them.

I find it interesting that this version sounds a bit more muddled. Gives me the feeling of the person listening to it fell further into their insanity, and is losing their grip on reality.

If Les joined Metallica it would be funk based new metal a decade before new metal.

Talk about ahead of his time!

He did try to join and was denied.

If thrash was played with a lead bass

This is metallic u piece of shit

Bruh don't listen to this high at 3am it'll fuck you up

better than Lars.

Say some right now

took me a minute to pick the song up :/

Heard this on liquid metal and was surprised how awsome it is....never been a huge primus fan

Les Claypool's voice fits this song unbelievably well.

Love the different take on it, took it with a pinch of salt

Prefer original, sorry primus

My teacher last year he said is it flea of les claypool i laughed and i said who do u think he said les and i was like les is way better than flea

just found that they did this cover ...man sounds great ..im a drummer and love the drums in their version songs pretty bad ass

I'm a guitarist, mostly focusing on a 6 string bass, and I'm one that loves to reverse the roles (meaning using a regular guitar for the bass parts and using a bass for the lead guitar parts) and this is a great version to do this with!

The best worst solo ever

Best cover!

33 seconds in and I can tell this is going to be awesome and I am pleasantly surprised

Heavy shit.

Primus is so weird, absurdist, and almost disturbing/unsettling, so they're pretty much the perfect band for a song about Cthulhu.

@Lieselotte Aya Dagon, yes. The Pope is all about Dagon too, check out his hat

That's why Primus Sucks.

@Darkness Incarnate funny you say that . The original is way heavier.

Pain Mitica neither are really all that heavy but I find that the guttural bass hits a bit harder.

Cthulhu is overused get that shit out of here it's for fagolas and saps

does no one realize this is metallica

im pretty sure everyone here knows it's metallica but idk

We know

Ikr metallica is better

@ThrashMetalKid 666 bold take, thanks for your opinion

Joey Mutts I am known as the guy with shitty opinion

Sounds like The Melvins lol

@Tim Orrok ik dude ive known since yesterday

@Moto R6 Yeah You've Known Since Yesterday

@Tim Orrok yea is there a problem

@Moto R6 Problem With You You're Hilarious Pal

@Tim Orrok 😁👍👌

Primus sucks!

Jason Kouyoumjian Primus sucks is their slogan...

ThrashMetalKid 666 well I only know 2 of their songs the ones I own

You suck!

Primus sucks

Primus fucking sucks 🤘

Dang lol never would have imagined.

les claypool tried out for metallica back when cliff burton died, they chose jason newstead. larry lalonde was in a speed metal band called possessed back in the 80s, at least I think it was possessed, I think he played guitar in that band so Primus has a lot of heavy metal history and it does not surprise me at all that they would cover this song, especially considering Hetfield has always sounded a little bit like Les Claypool when he sings this song live

@Ross Jacobs wow didn't know that man! Thats hella cool.

Metallica basically told him to make his own band.. came primus and sausage....

Kirk and Claypool are also old high school friends

@Ross Jacobs Yes, the band was Possessed and the album Seven Churches in which Larry played on is to some considered the first death metal album that and Death's Scream Bloody Gore. Scream Bloody Gore was official death metal. While Seven Churches was officially thrash metal but prototypes death metal. So, Larry Lalonde could actually be considered the innovator of death metal guitar playing. After Possessed he would join progressive thrash metal band Blind Illusion and play guitar on the debut album The Sane Asylum produced by Kirk Hammett. I will let you guess who the bass player was.