Max Boost and the Power-Ups is a genre-bending, experimental solo project rooted in the pent up musical machinations of one Brian Maxwell (that’s me). I like to blend industrial electronic sounds with rock guitar and acoustic instruments to create mashed up styles like electro-funk, psychedelic-rap, acid-metal, synthwave-alt-rock and trance-blues. No matter what genres I dabble in, everything is rooted in groove-heavy bass lines and a rhythmic, often aggressive vocal approach. Lyrically, I like to explore heavier topics like social inequity, toxic masculinity, existential dilemmas and mysteries of the great beyond, while trying to inject a bit of fun and often a heavy dose of sarcasm. I hope you can dig it!