(Translated from my original Italian text by ChatGPT and Piero Scaruffi)
The San Francisco-based band Battery began rooted in old-school industrial music, but over the years they refined their style to approach the heights of the genre.
On the EP Meat Market (COP) and the album Mutate (COP, 1993), their light, danceable style reminiscent of Front Line Assembly is underpinned by end-of-the-world lyrics, which Maria Azevedos vocals turn into desperate laments. Eternal Darkness and The Void are the most unsettling titles. Behind her, Shawn Brice and Evan Sornstein compose soundtracks for electronic keyboards.
N.V. (COP, 1996) is driven by Pax Neurotica and Go, tracks that had set California clubs ablaze the previous summer. The rest of the album carries the elusive charm of eclecticism and imagination.
The 1998 EP Momentum includes remixes of This Much, Betrayal, Aftermath, and Theme, all taken from the contemporary album.
Ivoux is a parallel project by Maria Azevedo, Shawn Brice, and Evan Sornstein, debuting with the concept album Frozen (COP, 1998).
(Original English text by Piero Scaruffi)
Distance (COP, 1997) marks tremendous progress by Azevedo, who
ranks with Hope Nicholls as one of the
most creative vocalists of industrial music.
She changes style with almost every song.
The EP Momentum (1998) contains remixes of This Much,
Betrayal , Aftermath and Theme from the album.
Ivoux is a side project by Azevedo, Brice and Sornstein that debuted with
the concept album Frozen (COP, 1998).
Dia is Shawn Brice and Maria Azevedo and it debuted with
Integration.
