Photo credit: Travis Shinn. Clockwise from left to right: Roy Lozano, Fernando Schaefer, Christian Olde Wolbers, Billy Graziadei and Sen Dog.
Hot off the heals from their highly-successful run of tour dates with P.O.D, the explosive quintet Powerflo will smash the stage for audiences nationwide as main support for Mexican Mettalers Brujeria. Kicking off this October, Powerflo’s Billy Graziadei commented “So on fire to bring the energy of Powerflo to the Brujeria tour! We’ve been friends and fans of them for years! This tour is gonna be the hottest one out there!”
The powerhouse includes Grammy-Award Nominated multiplatinum Cypress Hill rapper Sen Dog, Downset guitarist Rogelio “Roy” Lozano, Biohazard vocalist and guitarist Billy Graziadei, ex-Fear Factory bassist Christian Olde Wolbers, and Worst drummer Fernando Schaefer who certainly live up to their name medling hip-hop, metal, punk, and rock into a potent offering. Their self-titled debut release received rave reviews from the press with NYS Music declaring “Powerflo is tight, has chemistry and contains killer hooks and a hard sound that grabs you by the collar and makes you listen. Keep an eye out for Powerflo. It’s easily the best debut album of this year”. It bowed at #15 on the Hard Rock chart, #17 on the Heatseekers chart and #54 on the Indie chart and their song “Resistance” is now a theme song of WWE NXT! Poweflo’s ‘Powerflo’ was produced by Billy Graziadei and Josh Lynch, mixed by Jay Baumgardner (Godsmack, Papa Roach, Helmet) and mastered by Moar Applebaum (Faith No More, Halford, Adrenaline Mob) at Moar Applebaum Mastering and can be purchased here.
The origins of Powerflo can be traced back for more than two decades, as members of the band would collaborate on numerous occasions. In addition to both Cypress Hill and Biohazard appearing on the landmark platinum-selling ‘Judgement Night Soundtrack’, Sen Dog delivered a cameo on Biohazard’s ‘State Of The World Address’ in 1993, while Christian both guested on Cypress Hills’ chart-topping 2000 double album ‘Skulls & Bones (which Roy guested on also) and 2001’s ‘Stone Raiders’ in addition to performing with the group countless times. When long-time friend Roy played demos for Sen on a ride to the airport in 2015, the music immediately spoke to the rapper and the vision that would be Powerflo was born.
Powerflo tour dates in support of Brujeria:
OCTOBER
20 Riverside, CA Riverside Municipal Auditorium
21 Sacramento, CA Ace Of Spades
23 San Francisco, CA The Fillmore
26 Salt Lake City, UT Metro Music Hall
27 Denver, CO Gothic Theater
28 Lawrence, KS Granada Theater
29 Chicago, IL Bottom Lounge
NOVEMBER
2 Baltimore, MD Soundstage
3 New York, NY Irving Plaza
4 Boston, MA Once Ballroom
5 Philadelphia, PA The Foundry
8 Richmond, VA The Broadberry
9 Charlotte, VA The Underground
10 Nashville, TN Exit/In
11 St.Louis, MO Delmar Hall
12 Tulsa, OK Vanguard
14 Corpus Christi, TX Ayers Event Center
15 San Antonio, TX Rock Box
16 El Paso, TX Tricky Falls
17 Mesa, AZ Club Red
18 San Diego, CA House Of Blues
19 Los Angeles, CA Mayan Theater
Check out the awesome official video to “Where I Stay” taken from their killer debut!
