The Jesus Lizard

The Jesus Lizard was an American alternative rock and noise rock band formed in 1987 in Austin, Texas, and based in Chicago, Illinois from 1989 to 1999. The band reunited in late 2008 for touring the following year, but has since remained inactive.

While never finding much mainstream success, the Jesus Lizard were known as "a leading noise rock band in the American independent underground…[who] turned out a series of independent records filled with scathing, disembowelling, guitar-driven pseudo-industrial noise, all of which received positive reviews in underground music publications and heavy college-radio play." After a brief run as a recording-only project based in Austin, the three founding members relocated to Chicago, finding kindred spirits in recording engineer Steve Albini and the Touch & Go Records imprint. In 1989, they expanded into a four-piece and began operating as a live band, moving through popularity in both Chicago's alternative and noise rock scenes into an international audience. Despite releasing a split record with leading alt-rockers Nirvana and later signing a contract with Capitol Records, the band failed to find commercial success amid the alternative rock explosion of the mid-1990s, due in part to their comparatively experimental sound.[1] After disbanding, they remained a popular and respected staple of the underground rock community, which was reflected by the ticket sales and media attention granted to them in the course of their 2009 reunion tour.

Njihova pesma "Panic in Cicero" se moze cuti u filmu Kevina Smitha, "Clerks".

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