“Spiritual metal” instrumentalists POWERAXE, made up of brothers Ryan and Brian Randall, have been melting faces all year. They’ve become fixtures of FMLY Rides – watch them slay in this video from July – and a spinoff of the band, BROHAMMER, stole the show at the LA Lottery League this past February. If you want to get a taste of the chaos they bring, check the above video of the band terrorizing the parking lots and side streets of LA via Uhaul.
Poweraxe is going to rock the shit out of FMLY fest. I figured that y’all would want to prepare yourselves in advance, so I asked Ryan to share some inspirations that will help everyone get to know the group better. Follow the link and get poweraxical.
Cannibal Holocaust trailer
This film may be more responsible for Poweraxe than anything else. In 2007 we watched this movie for the first time and the only way we could describe it was by deciding that the film itself was Poweraxe. We were so captivated by the thought of brutal tribes and vast jungles. The soundtrack seemed unreal to us; it was so unintentionally heavy. It has been years since we have seen the movie, but looking back now we realize that everything we have written in the past year came from the suppressed memories of Cannibal Holocaust.
Roger Waters at Coachella 2008
We were there for this shit. After this night we would never be the same. We can’t really watch the video for too long because our brains start to get hot and tingly…
Fantasia: “Night on Bald Mountain”
I remember seeing this in theaters when I was a little kid and I remember thinking that this part was the coolest fucking thing in the whole world. It was like a serious metal video for little kids. After Brian and I started Poweraxe I got really into classical music and I remember telling him “you have to see this now, I know you saw it back in the day but you really need to see this.” Most of the time when we jam, I’m playing this sequence in my head over and over again.
J. Robert Oppenheimer on nuclear weapons
When we first started the band we were obsessed with this. The way he talks, the way he looks, the sound quality — all of it captivated us. The one quote that stands out the most is, of course, “Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.” We’ve kind of adopted that quote as our creed.
Led Zeppelin: “Whole Lotta Love” (live, 1970)
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