Source: Cape Argus

Hearken to the sonic assault rumbling from the north – Battery9, the SA godfathers of a genre best dubbed as “industrial” music.

The new album from Paul Riekert with cohorts Chesare Cassarino on guitar and visual artist and rapper Huyser Burger. “Galbraak”, the group’s seventh album, is “a bit of a misanthropic one” according to Riekert, whose cross-hairs are trained on “stupid people” who keep bothering him in the day-to-day world.

Especially thieves. Song-titles like Skiet Jouself In Die Voet and Enough Rope give you a hint at what you’re in for, but what makes the band so good is that they’re more than just an attitude with some distortion pedals: …