Butthole Surfers

Few bands can lay claim to a title like "most deranged band ever" in quite the same way the Butthole Surfers can. Formed in Austin, Texas, in the early 1980s, the group combined punk and metal riffage, tribal drumming, and sheer noise with singer Gibby Haynes's hallucinatory psycho-ward ramblings. The Buttholes' live shows were at times terrifying, and their early albums were challenging, exhilarating, and utterly unique, making them a long shot to ever ink a major-label deal. Nonetheless, the band released two albums on Capitol in the mid-'90s and even scored a genuine radio hit with the song "Pepper." The band jumped to Hollywood records for 2001's WEIRD REVOLUTION.

• rock
• pop rock
• 1990s
• 1980s