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For their next album, PWEI brought in drummer Robert "Fuzz" Townshend to complement their drum machine rhythms and loops, and moved into a slightly more DarkerAndEdgier style with more noticeable {{Grunge}} and IndustrialMetal influences. ''The Looks or the Lifestyle?'' saw the band do even better commercially than before, spawning their highest-charting single "Get the Girl! Kill the Baddies!", but the band ran into trouble with ExecutiveMeddling, as their greatest supporters in RCA had left the company and the remaining executives didn't understand them or their style. As a result, they were dropped from the label before "Get the Girl! Kill the Baddies!" was released in 1993. They then moved to Infectious Records, a label started by Korda Marshell, their friend who had signed them to RCA but had since left the label. Their next album ''Dos Dedos Mis Amigos'' was even more IndustrialMetal than before, with its lead single "Ich Bin Ein Auslander" being a politicised ProtestSong against attitudes towards immigration and the popularity of the far-right in the UK, with a SurrealMusicVideo parodying the industrial scene where March and Mole played comically oversized guitars. ''Amigos'' was the band's best-selling album in the UK at the time (peaking at #11 on the charts), and a joint tour with Music/NineInchNails increased their popularity and led them to sign a contract with Nothing Records for US distribution. Around the time of the remix album ''Two Fingers My Friends!'' was released, Crabb left the band, leaving Mansell as sole vocalist, and was replaced with Kerry "The Buzzard" Hammond. The band began recording a new album with Trent Reznor as the producer and collaborated with Music/TheProdigy for "Their Law", but disbanded before they could finish recording. Crabb then pursued his ambient side project Golden Claw Musics, March and Townshend formed the big beat band Bentley Rhythm Ace, and Mansell moved onto his new career of scoring every single Creator/DarrenAronofsky film ever made.

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For their next album, PWEI brought in drummer Robert "Fuzz" Townshend to complement their drum machine rhythms and loops, and moved into a slightly more DarkerAndEdgier style with more noticeable {{Grunge}} and IndustrialMetal IndustrialRock influences. ''The Looks or the Lifestyle?'' saw the band do even better commercially than before, spawning their highest-charting single "Get the Girl! Kill the Baddies!", but the band ran into trouble with ExecutiveMeddling, as their greatest supporters in RCA had left the company and the remaining executives didn't understand them or their style. As a result, they were dropped from the label before "Get the Girl! Kill the Baddies!" was released in 1993. They then moved to Infectious Records, a label started by Korda Marshell, their friend who had signed them to RCA but had since left the label. Their next album ''Dos Dedos Mis Amigos'' was even more IndustrialMetal Industrial than before, with its lead single "Ich Bin Ein Auslander" being a politicised ProtestSong against attitudes towards immigration and the popularity of the far-right in the UK, with a SurrealMusicVideo parodying the industrial scene where March and Mole played comically oversized guitars. ''Amigos'' was the band's best-selling album in the UK at the time (peaking at #11 on the charts), and a joint tour with Music/NineInchNails increased their popularity and led them to sign a contract with Nothing Records for US distribution. Around the time of the remix album ''Two Fingers My Friends!'' was released, Crabb left the band, leaving Mansell as sole vocalist, and was replaced with Kerry "The Buzzard" Hammond. The band began recording a new album with Trent Reznor as the producer and collaborated with Music/TheProdigy for "Their Law", but disbanded before they could finish recording. Crabb then pursued his ambient side project Golden Claw Musics, March and Townshend formed the big beat band Bentley Rhythm Ace, and Mansell moved onto his new career of scoring every single Creator/DarrenAronofsky film ever made.



* AffectionateParody: The video for "Ich Bin Ein Auslander" is a pretty spot-on joke at the expense of the IndustrialMetal scene.

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* AffectionateParody: The video for "Ich Bin Ein Auslander" is a pretty spot-on joke at the expense of the IndustrialMetal IndustrialRock scene.

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