Editing Primal Scream (section)

===''XTRMNTR'' and ''Evil Heat'' (1999–2005)===
Recording sessions for the band's sixth album went well. The band were for the most part free of drugs, and their lineup had stabilised.<ref name="street">{{cite web |author=Ferguson, Jason |title=Street Regal |url=http://www.theprimalscream.org/press/magnet-aug00.html |access-date=19 January 2007 |publisher=Magnet Magazine}}</ref> Despite their new-found peace, the band pursued a harsher and angrier musical direction. Many of the songs they wrote had overtly political lyrics, Gillespie said the band wished to convey "What it's like to be in Britain in this day and age."<ref name="street"/> The album featured multiple guest appearances, including the [[Chemical Brothers]], [[New Order (band)|New Order]]'s [[Bernard Sumner]], and former [[My Bloody Valentine (band)|My Bloody Valentine]] guitarist [[Kevin Shields]], who had become a semi-permanent member.

The first single from ''[[XTRMNTR]]'', "[[Swastika Eyes]]", was released in November 1999. The song's overtly political content, Gillespie said it was about "American international terrorism",<ref name="slut">{{cite web |author=King, Simon |title=Everybody's Fucked.. |url=http://www.theprimalscream.org/press/jockey-oct99.html |access-date=19 January 2007 |publisher=Jockey Slut}}</ref> made it controversial. Nevertheless, it was a hit, charting at No.&nbsp;22 on the British charts. ''XTRMNTR'' itself fared well, reaching No.&nbsp;3. The political content was well received, with Allmusic calling it a "nasty, fierce realization of an entire world that has... lost the plot.".<ref>{{cite web|last=Carlson |first=Dean |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/xtrmntr-mw0000260651 |title=XTRMNTR - Primal Scream : Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards |website=[[AllMusic]] |date=2 May 2000 |access-date=17 June 2013}}</ref> In 2009 ''[[NME]]'' charted ''[[XTRMNTR]]'' at No.&nbsp;3 in ''The Top 100 Greatest Albums of The Decade''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nme.com/list/the-top-100-greatest-albums-of-the-decade/158049/article/158062#article |title=The Top 100 Greatest Albums of the Decade |publisher=Nme.com |access-date=17 June 2013}}</ref>

In 2000, the band began recording their seventh album, ''[[Evil Heat]]'', released in 2002. Though the political content was not as strong as the previous album, there was a song originally slated for the album entitled "Bomb the Pentagon", which was reworked into the song "Rise" after the [[September 11 attacks|11 September attacks]].<ref name="dazed">{{cite web |url=http://www.theprimalscream.com/press/dazed-june02.html |title=Then There Was a Light |access-date=19 January 2007 |publisher=Dazed and Confused |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726103936/http://www.theprimalscream.com/press/dazed-june02.html |archive-date=26 July 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The album, like many of Primal Scream's previous albums, had multiple producers. Shields produced several tracks, and Andrew Weatherall produced three tracks, his first work with the band since ''Vanishing Point''. [[Kate Moss]] sang professionally for the first time with single "[[Some Velvet Morning]]", a version of the Lee Hazlewood/Nancy Sinatra song. The album also featured another guest appearance, [[Led Zeppelin]] singer [[Robert Plant]].  In 2003 the double CD album ''[[Dirty Hits]]'' was released containing the better known works and some previously unheard versions and remixes of those tunes.

In June 2005, Primal Scream played a controversial set at the [[Glastonbury Festival]], throughout which Gillespie was playfully abusive to the crowd and was alleged <sup>[by whom?]</sup> to have made Nazi salutes during the song "Swastika Eyes". They were eventually forced off by officials after overrunning their allotted time; the festival organisers were at that point already annoyed at the band when, in response to their invitation to join other recording artists in signing a ''Make Poverty History'' poster which would be auctioned off for charity, lead singer Bobby Gillespie instead altered the poster so that it read "Make Israel History".<ref name="Israel">{{cite magazine |date=15 April 2006 |title=A Fucking Nazi |url=http://www.theprimalscream.org/press/nme-15april06.html |access-date=18 July 2011 |magazine=[[NME]]}}</ref> Gillespie later said that this was to show his support for the [[Palestinian people|Palestinian]] cause.<ref name="Israel"/>