Butthole Surfers

A nearly unbroken streak of priceless gibberish album titles is about all that's consistent about the Butthole Surfers, who forth a vicious cosmic tar-pit of vocal freakery and sludgy, screechy guitar work from Texas in the early '80s. But like an acid-battered parallel to Ministry, vocalist Gibby Haynes and guitarist Paul Leary used a swirl of vengeful sonics to make a lot of different sounds, from metal to noise-rock to goofy sample collages, melt down into something new. Haynes, Leary, and the rest of the band's '80s lineup recently pulled back together for a reunion tour. This show might not prove as notoriously fucked-up as Surfers concerts of old, but the music remains monumentally twisted in hindsight.

Updated 09/23/2009