Rivers Cuomo Once Tried to Start a Metal Band - Billboard

Rivers Cuomo of Weezer performs at PNC Music Pavilion on July 25, 2018 in Charlotte, North Carolina.

In an interview with Kerrang, the musician discussed his previous group Sixty Wrong Sausages and how he initially intended to create metal music.

"I was always in bands growing up, when I was in school and when I first moved to LA,” he said. “In those days I was almost anti-punk: I did not like punk music, or the whole punk aesthetic.

“Then I got a job at Tower Records where I met this guy named Pat Finn who was 100 percent punk," he continued.

"He had a shaved head, he’d try to grab your testicles, he’d try to get the boss to hit him and he’d listen to punk bands like Black Flag, that I didn’t know anything about.”.

Cuomo went on to note that because he was "exposed" to new types of music, he "gradually got interested in branching out from heavy music.".

It was this accommodation of funk and punk with completely gibberish lyrics.