All these groups sound like a buncha frat guys whose parties you’d go to for the chicks and the beer, but you wouldn’t cross the quad to see ‘em, y’know?
Not since the Unsane have I heard aggressive noise-rock with such weight. You can’t hear the words, you can’t hear the chords, but it works in a big way.
When the other two thirds of Primus are removed, you really miss the psycho-sound effects, general guitar noodling craziness, and high-caffeine drumming.
Look, Beck wrote a tune on Unchained, as did Chris Cornell. He’s lived harder and played faster than any other man around the joint. There is no substitute.