Tracks in Film and Television
- "Machine", from the band's 1988 eponymous debut album, was featured in the comedy movie The 'Burbs the following year. Corey Feldman's character, Ricky Butler, played air guitar during the song's intro.
- They performed "Call of the Wild" and "Letter Home" at the end of a 1989 episode of the Morton Downey Jr. Show concerning heavy metal.
- In the Beavis and Butt-head episode "Eating Contest", the two watch the music video for "Heaven or Hell". Beavis mistakes the band for Alice in Chains, to which Butt-head claims they are not that band yet they sound like them.
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