Killed by 9V Batteries is an Austrian[1]indie rock band.
Biography
Founded in
Graz in 2002, the members entered a temporary hiatus in 2005. However in the same year, they re-grouped and later signed to the
Vienna-based indie label
Siluh Records and released three full-length albums there.
Around 2015 the band went on a second hiatus and front singer Wolfgang Möstl worked out his solo act
Mile Me Deaf to a three member band. This band is in sound similar to Killed by 9 Volt Batteries, though a bit less noisy. In Mile Me Deaf he is the lead singer and plays guitar and occasionally on a
Home Swinger. In 2018 he scaled down this project to a solo act again with a more electronic output with samplers, drum computers and him on guitar and vocals. Möstl also plays guitar in the bands
Sex Jams, and the
sludge rockbandMelt Downer. Möstl also plays guitar in the live band of
Clara Luzia.