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Taking the controversial left-wing politics and aggro metal sound of Rage Against the Machine even farther, Corporate Avenger's blunt, confrontational lyrical critiques of American society were met with a predictable response in conservative quarters. Blending rap-metal and industrial metal with the sort of hardcore punk championed by Crass or Black Flag, Corporate Avenger grew out of Orange County's Humble Gods, where Spike Xavier played bass behind his brother Brad Daddy X. When the Humble Gods broke up, Daddy X moved on to front the rap-metal outfit Kottonmouth Kings, while Xavier adopted the alias the Corporate Avenger and formed a band of the same name. Xavier found a co-leader named the Wind, and the band began appearing in public with elaborately and symbolically painted faces. The lineup was eventually rounded out by stage dancer and self-styled "visual assassin" Palikela (aka the Taxman), who filled the same function for the Kottonmouth Kings, and DJ Hall of Records, plus an u...