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A FIST IN THE FACE OF GOD: POWERMAD

Powermad are a thrash/speed outfit from Minneapolis who formed in 1984 and released a couple of EPs and one long-player between 1987 and 1989. (You can download those free here). Just how they got picked up by David Lynch is anyone's guess.

Powermad

are a thrash/speed outfit from Minneapolis who formed in 1984 and released a couple of EPs and one long-player between 1987 and 1989. (You can download those free

here

). Just how they got picked up by David Lynch is anyone's guess.

Wild at Heart

was mind-blowing enough,

but the inclusion of Powermad sweetened it all the more. They actually make a cameo playing at a "metal club" until some dickhead tries it on with Sailor's girlfriend Lula and the show stops till the guy apologizes to her. Cage then goes onstage to tell Powermad they have "a lot of the same power E [Mr. Presley] had," and they go into Elvis's classic "Love Me" with Cage on vocals. Which owns.

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Remember how Cage is a massive Elvis aficionado? So much so he married MJ's ex and Elvis's daughter Lisa Marie, although only for 108 days? His role in

Wild at Heart

is based on the guy. A little later in the movie, "Slaughterhouse" comes on again on the car radio amidst a sea of news reports of rape, murder, etc., and they do some high-kicking and roundhouse kicking to the sounds on the side of the motorway. Which also owns.

Powermad - "Slaughterhouse"