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The Awakening Death Says Yes

Guitar riffs and pounding industrial rhythms topped up by Ashton Nyte’s hoarse voice – “Death Says Yes” is a haunting ballad about saying no to suicide.
Listen: Death Says Yes

Blood Money Still Life

Don’t be fooled by their scary billing. This upwardly mobile Joburg band makes sweeping melodic modern rock reminiscent of U2.
Listen: Still Life

Brixton Moord En Roof Orkes Spoed

Smoking tik is going to kill you. Hear what it sounds like on cult Joburg combo Brixton Moord En Roof Orkes’ pile-driving 'Alternatiewe Afrikaans' classic.
Listen: Spoed

Arno Carstens and Breyten Breytenbach No Man's Land

The head Nudies hook-up with legendary poet Breyten Breytenbach on this harrowingly existential soundtrack about “the horror”... of navigating the new South Africa?br> Listen: No Man’s Land

Diesel Whores Girls For Satan

Bad-ass sleaze rock doesn’t come more dangerous than this devilishly sardonic tribute to Goth girls clad in black.
Listen: Girls For Satan
Fokofpolisiekar Hemel Op Die Platteland

“Sal iemand dalk ‘n god bel en vir hom sê ons het hom nie meer nodig nie!” Sell your house, wife and kids. Get in the car and just disappear into the Karoo, bru!
Listen: Hemel Op Die Platteland

The Humanizer Yaddy

Paul 'Lark' Ressel concocts this creepy dose of weird electronica that's nothing short of a polyphonic nightmare.
Listen: Yaddy

Kallitz Die Situasies


Feel the fear and loathing on this conscious critique of crime and poverty on the Cape Flats courtesy of Afrikaans rap crew.
Listen: Die Situasies

K.O.B.U.S! Doodstraf

Bigots beware! There’s a ‘main’ method in Theo Crous and Francois Blom's "Swaar Metaal" madness on this darkly satirical autopsy that demands the return of the death penalty!
Listen: Doodstraf

Sword'zman Pass The Death Mask

A powerful and edgy hip-rock hybrid off this emerging Cape Town solo rap artist's debut EP, 'Shake The Planet'.
Listen: Pass The Death Mask

Wild Eyes Disko Inferno

Bizarre dresses, over-the-top make-up and pink Cleopatra wigs – that’s what makes this three-piece band different from other punk rock groups. Listen to their ‘frantic disko punk’, “Disko Inferno”.
Listen: Disko Inferno

Aletia Upstairs Too Sober

She sings in 10 languages and speaks three, and her music is influenced by diverse cultures. Tune in to her soothing melodies in “Too Sober”, a Vegas lounge haunt about realizing you’re not getting lucky because you’re not pissed enough yet.
Listen: Too Sober

-Tiisetso Tlelima

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