Musical Style and Influences
Primus's musical style is difficult to define. Primus has been called everything from "thrash-funk meets Don Knotts, Jr." to "the Freak Brothers set to music", and has been variously termed alternative rock, alternative metal, funk metal, and progressive metal. Regarding the band's genre, Claypool has stated "We've been lumped in with the funk metal thing just about everywhere. I guess people just have to categorise you". MTV suggests that Primus is "a post-punk Rush spiked with the sensibility and humor of Frank Zappa". Les Claypool himself once described their music as "psychedelic polka."
Primus is the only band with its own ID3 genre tag, 'Primus', as extended by Winamp. Primus' influences include Frank Zappa, The Residents and Pink Floyd. The band have been credited as an influence to the nu metal genre, with nu metal band's such as Deftones, Korn, Limp Bizkit, and Pleymo citing Primus as an influence. Other band's that Primus have influenced include Muse and Incubus.
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