In case you didn’t know, Les Claypool had a band called Primate before Primus, featuring himself and Jay Lane on drums and Todd Huth on guitar. Well they came to regroup later as Sausage and that zany Claypool ingredient helped muster quite an album in 1994.
Riddles Are Abound Tonight was the only studio album by Sausage, and it’s one of those records that feels like it exists slightly out of time—too weird for alt-rock radio, too warm and loose to be straight-up metal, and way more psychedelic than people expect from a Claypool-adjacent project at that time before the Colonel entered the jam world six years later. Check out the video for the title track in which Claypool described it as “I just thought it would look cool… like a giant penis, and we were the blue sperm.”
