The 12 Swinging Signs of the Zodiac

The Reverb Motherfuckers were a sludgy, psychedelic noise-rock act from New York who embraced debauchery in basically any form — some songs bore titles like “Threeway On The Freeway” and “Love Juice In All Three Holes,” but they also had a nihilistic dark side expressed on tracks like “Nowhere Nothing Fuckup” and “No Not Me,” which begins “I wanna get drunk/I wanna take drugs/My head’s like a jar full of lightning bugs.” Sonically, they were somewhere in the neighborhood of the Butthole Surfers, with more sampled tape collages, more extended, metallic guitar solos, and slower, more bludgeoning tempos; in fact, they were making the transition between noise-rock and tribal post-metal two years before White Zombie, and vocalist Roy Edroso (now an astute political blogger) had a compellingly desperate wail.