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  • Awesome Music: Most agree that their peak was Tonight The Stars Revolt!
  • Broken Base:
    • Destroy What You Enjoy, depending on who you ask, was either a good change for Powerman or their worst album.
    • The controversy between the similarities of "When Worlds Collide" and Final Fantasy XIV's "Fiend". Opinions are torn between the camp that believes that the XIV team ripped off Powerman (Despite Yoshida himself saying that this was not meant to be the case) and the camp that believe that the group are over-exaggerating the similarities of the song (or are making the similarities up entirely) and are simply clinging to their last shreds of relevance.
  • Germans Love David Hasselhoff: While the band did very well in the States, they also had a huge following in New Zealand, with Tonight the Stars Revolt! selling over a million copies there.
  • Growing the Beard: Tonight The Stars Revolt! Definitely the album by which all future Powerman albums are judged; it's where their energetic industrial/punk/metal sound was set in stone.
  • Harsher in Hindsight: Anyone For Doomsday?, their follow-up album after the highly successful Tonight The Stars Revolt!, was slated for release in mid-2001, but was cancelled only a few weeks before its slated release. Considering what would happen just a few months after the album's cancellation... The fact that the lead single was called "Bombshell" doesn't help either.
  • Signature Song: "When Worlds Collide".

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