This design is (though rare) highly prized among bass players usually in hard rock and heavy metal music.
Some electric guitars have also sported the axe design though they are moderately popular and sometimes discredited.
Since its creation, the axe bass has been highly desired, very expensive, and a very rare prize among guitar shops and music stores.
The axe bass has also been associated with Marceline the Vampire Queen (character on the hit Cartoon Network television show Adventure Time), whose bass is very literally made out of a battle axe.
After garnering enough wealth from touring with his band Kiss, Simmons approached Valdez Guitars to build his first axe bass.