16 Volt Return With First Album Since 2017…With roots dating back to the early days of the industrial rock scene, the US band 16Volt also crossed over into related genres as soon as group founder Eric Powell signed his first record deal in 1991 while still in his teens.
‘More Of Less’ is the first full-length record by 16Volt since 2017, when Powell put his group on a hiatus that lasted seven years. A single from it entitled ‘White Noise’ is already available, a song that Powell states “is about feeling unheard, when your voice gets drowned out and it seems like you can’t get a word in or no one is listening to you. To others, you become just white noise, that static sound of nothingness.”
Issued on 20th June, the single followed just two weeks after a first ever (and already sold out) vinyl pressing of ‘Wisdom’, the group’s 1993 debut album. Powell’s reactivation of 16Volt in 2024 had been marked with the release of ‘Negative On Arrivals’, which combined songs from the group’s previous two records in 2016 and 2017.
