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Guy Builds Giger-Inspired “Biomechanical Axe”
I love to watch people who work with their hands build or craft something that they’re passionate about. It’s very relaxing and puts me in an almost meditative state.
That’s a big reason why I enjoy the YouTube channel MichaelCthulhu, which follows Michael Craughwell, a guy who makes big weapons, often based on video games. However, today he posted a gigantic axe that is themed after the works of H.R. Giger, the man who created the Xenomorph from Alien and Sil from Species. Dubbed the “Biomechanaxe”, the weapon looks just like the name implies, a bio-mechanical axe that is straight from the dreams of Giger himself.
The really interesting thing about how Craughwell works is that he rarely if ever uses a forge (I’ve only seen him do it once and it was a makeshift thing he whipped up). Instead, he welds and grinds everything together into one solid, nigh-well unbreakable slab of metal. Additionally, he doesn’t shy away from taking his time nor does he use super fast edits and cuts to make a short video. Watching one of his clips is an investment but it pays off seeing how everything starts and eventually comes together.
You can watch the build below!
Can you believe this year marks the 25TH ANNIVERSARY of Bloody Disgusting?! Yes, it was way back in 2001 that Brad Miska and Tom Owen launched this very website, with yours truly taking over as Editor-in-Chief around 10 years ago. It’s been the highlight of my life to run and write for this website every single day of those past 10 years, and one of the very best things about writing for Bloody Disgusting is the community that’s kept us alive all these years.
It’s thanks to you, the readers and supporters of Bloody Disgusting, that we get to keep doing this for a living, and we’re deeply proud of the fact that we’ve continued to have an engaged and active readership over the years and throughout the many changes we’ve had to weather.
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On that note, we thought it might be fun to fire up monthly discussion threads where you can essentially use the comments sections of those articles to ask us anything. Sure, we’re always hanging around in the comments sections of different articles here and there when we can, but these will be dedicated spaces that we can repeatedly come back to throughout each month to answer questions and chat about what’s going on in the world of horror.
For the month of June 2026, this is that discussion thread. Feel free to come on back here any day throughout June to ask us literally anything, or start up a discussion on any topic of your choosing. Whenever we’ve got some spare time in between writing articles, we’ll pop in here and engage back with as many of those comments as we possibly can.
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