Crust

Drawing on the tradition of the Butthole Surfers, the Austin, TX, band Crust creates willfully disturbing tracks based around such themes as sexually transmitted disease, public institutions, and life at rock bottom. The group's music is awash in the sounds of samples, guitars and noise-making household objects. The combo's first release was the industrial cacophony of the Heart of Crust EP. A self-titled debut LP followed, again on Trance Syndicate Records (Butthole Surfer King Coffey's label). in 1991. The harrowing effort featured such feverish paeans to low-living as "Head...