Butthole Surfers

Emerging from the 1980s hardcore punk scene, the Butthole Surfers quickly became known for their chaotic live shows, black comedy, and a sound that incorporated elements of psychedelia, noise rock, and punk as well as their use of sound manipulation and tape editing. Their sound would subsequently be considered influential to the emerging grunge music scene in the 1990s.
Although they were respected by their peers and attracted a devoted fanbase, the Butthole Surfers had little commercial success until 1996's Electriclarryland. The album contained the hit single "Pepper", which climbed to number one on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart that year. Following the commercial failure of their 2001 follow-up album Weird Revolution, Butthole Surfers continued as mainly a live band until their hiatus in 2017. The band reunited in 2025, and in the following year, they released their first studio album in 25 years, After the Astronaut, which was originally intended to be the follow-up to Electriclarryland but was abandoned for nearly three decades due to record label issues.