Eraserheads is a Filipino rock band formed in 1989.

Consisting of Ely Buendia, Buddy Zabala, Marcus

Adoro, and Raimund Marasigan, the band became one of the most successful, most influential, critically
acclaimed, and significant bands in the history of Philippine music, leaving a legacy that made them the
most commercially successful Filipino music artist of all time. Often dubbed as "The Beatles of the
Philippines", they are credited for spearheading a second wave of Manila band invasions, paving the way
for a host of Philippine alternative rock bands.

In 1989, two college bands from the University of the Philippines, Diliman were both in search of new
members for a new group. Curfew, which consisted of Buddy Zabala on bass, Raimund Marasigan
on drums and Marcus Adoro on guitars met up with Sunday School, which consisted of Ely Buendia
on vocals and Raimund Marasigan as session drummer in December of the same year. Ely posted
an audition notice on a university message board. Only Raimund, Buddy, and Marcus showed up at
the audition.The four formed a new group and called themselves Eraserheads, taking inspiration
from the film Eraserhead by surrealist director David Lynch. They played mostly covers, doing gigs
in schools, and playing at Manila's rock club circuit, achieving little success. The band found that
they were not good at playing covers, so they concentrated on writing their own material.[3] Their
new, original songs, played live, soon earned them a cult following in the university, which gradually
spread outside the campus. One of the songs, a pop song entitled, "Pare Ko", became popular,
partly because of lyrics that included a few obscenities.

The band recorded a nine-song demo tape in the garage of Marasigan's provincial home
in Candelaria, Quezon on January 26, 1991.[4] They then shopped the demo cassette around record
labels, clubs, and radio stations, hoping to have their songs reach the public. However, they were
rejected at every turn, with one recording label deeming that their demo was "not pop enough". In
May 1991, a professor-friend teaching Humanities, Robin Rivera, helped them re-record and mix
better versions of the demo songs on a four-track DAT recorder. The new demo was named Pop-U!,
titled as an irreverent response to those who turned them down. Eventually, the songs of Buendia
and the band caught the attention of BMG A&R director Vic Valenciano. Valenciano listened to the
songs and then commented that they were very raw technically, but that there was something
promising in them. Subsequently, BMG gave Eraserheads' songs a try. In 1992, BMG signed up the
band for a three-year record deal.

On July 1993, Eraserheads started recording their debut album called Ultraelectromagneticpop!. The
album featured "Pare Ko" (My Friend), "Toyang" and "Tindahan ni Aling Nena". The album also
featured a sanitized version of "Pare Ko" called "Walang Hiyang Pare Ko".[7] Later in the same year,
BMG initially released 5,000 copies of the album. The album became a smash hit, with the songs
"Ligaya", "Pare Ko" and "Toyang" topping the charts that, by the end of the year, BMG sold 300,000
copies, and Ultraelectromagneticpop! turned sextuple platinum. The public was said to have found
its OPM Fab Four in Eraserheads, opening the second wave of band invasion.[1] The
Eraserheadsmania was born.

On October 1994, Eraserheads released a follow-up album entitled Circus.[5] The band said that the
album aptly described their life since their debut. The album was unpredictable and unconventional
compared to the OPM ballads at that time, and established the band members as songwriters and
musicians. The songs varied in style and mood, ranging from euphoric and hilarious to tender and
somber. Four of the songs became successive hits: "Kailan", "Magasin", "Alapaap" and "With a
Smile". Circus turned gold in just 30 days with 20,000 copies sold. Eventually, it turned quintuple
platinum with 200,000 copies sold.
The group’s third studio album Cutterpillow, was launched an open-air concert attended by fans and
followers. With Christmas barely a month over, Eraserheads opened 1996 by making history in the
Philippine music scene once more. Cutterpillow turned gold, even before it hit the record stores, as a
result of the pre-selling promo campaign. Soon, the band shot the music video for the song "Ang
Huling El Bimbo" from the album.

Later that year, the band came up with a conceptual Christmas album Fruitcake. The album is
notable in that it is the first and only album of the band recorded entirely in English. This was shortly
followed by a release of a companion storybook of the same title. Also in 1995 the band was given a
shot at acting when they co-starred with comedian Joey De Leon of "Eat Bulaga" in the comedy
film Run Barbi Run produced by GMA Network's Cinemax Studios.

Eraserheads went onstage for their reunion concert on August 30, 2008, at The Fort Open
Field, Taguig City. The concert, however, was cut short halfway through a planned 30-song setlist as
Buendia was rushed to the Makati Medical Hospital after experiencing chest pains. He was reported
to be in stable condition. Buddy Zabala had checked on Buendia in his tent right after they went to
their planned 20-minute break and saw that he already was on an oxygen mask with paramedics
checking his blood pressure. As he left and came back, paramedics were already taking Buendia on
an ambulance. Bandmates Zabala, Marasigan and Adoro further said that they had no idea that
Buendia was already having difficulty performing.

The band went on stage for their second reunion concert dubbed as The Final Set on March 7,
2009, at the SM Mall of Asia Concert Grounds, Pasay City were approximately 100,000 people
attended the sold-out concert. The concert went ahead despite the recent passing of their guest
performer and friend Francis Magalona who died of acute myelogenous leukemia noon of the
previous day.

The band continued to perform on sporadic worldwide tours from 2012 to 2014. Eraserheads held
another reunion concert in the United States (San Francisco, Los Angeles & New Jersey) and
Canada (Toronto) from October 12 to 20, 2012.[

In September 2014, the band released two new songs via Esquire Magazine (Philippines edition),
titled "1995" and "Sabado". This is their first release of new material in more than a decade.[32][33] The
magazine cover mimics the Beatles' Abbey Road cover, which was shot during the band's tour in
London.

In a tweet posted on January 2018, Buendia said: "some people will never understand that people
who don't get along don't work together". The statement was interpreted by Philippine Daily Inquirer
and some fans as a response to calls for another reunion concert in the band's home country.