Butthole Surfers: the lost album “After The Astronaut” is out. Here's the video for the single “Jet Fighter”

Almost thirty years after it was made, a long-shadowed chapter in the discography of the Butthole Surfers resurfaces in its original form. On June 26, “After The Astronaut” will be released, an album that has remained unreleased until now, put out by Sunset Blvd Records.

Previewing the release is the track "Jet Fighter", available with a new video directed by Jeffrey Garcia (see below).

The record was conceived in the late Nineties as a direct follow-up to "Electriclarryland" (1996), the album that had brought the Texan band to a wider audience without blunting its off-kilter identity. The project, however, fell victim to internal wrangling at Capitol Records, which blocked its release before it could take final shape.

The situation changed after leaving the label's roster: the band signed to Hollywood Records, which in 2001 released a heavily reworked version of the material under the title “Weird Revolution”. An outcome that did not reflect the band's original intentions.

Guitarist Paul Leary recalled that period as a forced compromise: “They wanted to intervene heavily on the tracks, and it wasn't a comfortable experience for us.”

The release of “After The Astronaut” thus restores the project to its original form, even keeping the title planned for it at the time.

Here's the tracklist and artwork for “After The Astronaut”.

1. Weird Revolution

2. Intelligent Guy

3. Jet Fighter

4. Mexico

5. Imbuya

6. Venus

7. The Last Astronaut

8. Yentel

9. Junkie Jenny in Gaytown

10. They Came In

11. I Don’t Have a Problem

12. Turkey and Dressing

Irreverent and violent, the Texan Butthole Surfers spanned three decades of rock music between hardcore, noise, psychedelia and metal. From the legendary records of the Eighties, to their major-label landing in the Nineties, up to the modest popularity reached at the dawn of the new millennium. The band's outrageous name, born in the suburbs of San Antonio, has turned up in the closing credits of famous TV shows, well-known video games and even a cartoon. But in truth, theirs is the soundtrack of nothingness. The Butthole Surfers were the last worthy descendants of degenerate rock, and at the same time still stand today as the founding fathers of postmodern catastrophe in music.

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