Holy Fuck with Gus Englehorn
- Dates: April 17, 2026
- Venue: KINGS
- Location: Downtown Raleigh
- Address: 14 W. Martin St., Raleigh, NC 27601
- Times: Fri., 8pm; doors open one hour prior
- Admission: $20 adv / $25 day-of
About
Canadian quartet Holy Fuck have always been happy to plow a distinctly lone furrow. Never ones to chase the limelight or hop on any genre-wagon that happens to be passing by, they’ve played by their own rules for the best part of 20 years and five albums. It’s for that reason that they’ve become one of the country’s finest and most influential exports, with their widescreen technicolour, crescendo-heavy and highly danceable sound often finding itself imitated, but never bettered. Even after attracting mainstream attention thanks to appearing on the soundtracks to Breaking Bad, The Substance, Mr Robot, Chemical Hearts, Good Girls, Cheaters and Invincible (the latter producing viral hit ‘Tom Tom’), the band has continued to go against the grain in a cultural landscape that prioritises and lionises the safe and predictable over the marginal and single-minded.
If Gus Englehorn didn’t exist, one of his songs would have to invent him. A former pro snowboarder reborn as a nomadic psych-pop prophet, Englehorn has lived a rollercoaster life that reads like one of the fantastical fables that fill his songbook.
His early albums—2020’s Death & Transfiguration, 2022’s Dungeon Master, and 2025’s The Hornbook—introduced listeners to his unpredictable blend of lo-fi charm, surreal storytelling, and genre-warping invention. With The Broken Balladeer, Englehorn reunites with producer Paul Leary (Butthole Surfers), continuing a collaboration that began on The Hornbook and further refining his off-kilter, time-bending sound.