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The first snows of winter, 1995, were falling as Battery Cage began
locking themselves into darkened studios to undertake recording what
would become their first album, "Product". Although they were unaware
of the twists and turns the future would bring, the original lineup of
Tyler Newman, Jeremy Page, and AJ Kaelin, had a desire to bring their
vision of uncompromising brutal electronics into the Boston live music
scene. Bringing the DIY ethos of punk rock, the raw power of metal, and
the futuristic danceability of EBM together in one powerful package,
the trio quickly gained a reputation for their in-your-face live
performances and unwillingness to be easily pigeonholed into a single
genre. The band soon found themselves signed to Sinless Records, and
quickly paved the way to their own self destruction through extended
recording sessions, constant live performances, and well documented
personal excesses.

Blinking in the autumn sun of 1997, the band found Sinless Records
closing it's doors just as they delivered the master tapes of
"Product". Although they had managed to craft what would eventually
become a critically acclaimed masterwork of disturbed yet compelling
power electronics, the frustration of watching the label go up in smoke
combined with the stress of deepening artistic divisions within the
band became too much to handle. Jeremy decided to leave the band to
pursue a career in the hip-hop scene. AJ was later removed from the
project due to personal differences, and has since disappeared.

At the dawn of 1999, Josh Greco, responsible for engineering the
"Product" sessions, came on board as a new member. Although live events
continued during this time, no new material was on the horizon.
Instead, several side-projects took center stage, including AEC,
Din_Fiv and Informatik. Tyler spent most of 2000 through 2002 working
alongside Da5id Din on not only a North American tour, but the
completion of the Informatik album "Nymphomatik".

The burning summer of 2003 saw Tyler and Josh, alongside the expanded
lineup of Roland Adams and Paul Savio, preparing new songs that would
eventually lead into the "World Wide Wasteland" album. While this newly
realized unit began reigniting the performance front, in the studio the
band created a new self-released CD single for the clubs, called
"Ecstasy". The single went on to pack dancefloors around the globe, and
attract the attention of US industrial powerhouse Metropolis Records.
In 2004 the band completed and released "World Wide Wasteland", a
considerably different album from it's predecessor. Focused almost
exclusively on the club scene, the album spawned many new fans with
it's unique take on dance music: hypnotic synth patterns over technoid
body beats and crunchy metallic guitars.

As "World Wide Wasteland" began to unleash itself around the world,
Battery Cage returned to the endless night of the studio to begin
production on their strongest album to date, "A Young Person's Guide To
Heartbreak". Initially projected to take a mere 12 months, the album
would take almost 3 years to complete. During this time, the band
became extremely disillusioned with the state of the genre in which
they'd been placed by the media, and began making significant changes
in their signature sound. Never content to repeat the formulas of
previous success, the dancefloor vibe of their previous work was pushed
aside to make room for a new level of extremely personal, guitar-driven
songwriting.

Now, a full decade after their modest beginnings, Battery Cage returns
to Metropolis Records with "A Young Person's Guide To Heartbreak", a
narrative of the personal dysfunction and countless wasted
relationships that could be theirs, your friends, or perhaps your own.
Purging the toxicity of the confessional lyrics are layers of an
abrasive sonic catharsis, revealing the tragedy of a personal meltdown
in hallucinogenic and nightmarish detail. "A Young Person's Guide To
Heartbreak", and its accompanying digitally released single (ironically
titled "Single"), draw inspiration from the heroes of the EBM, punk and
post-rock genres, and are expressed through a cast of people who find
themselves in the very moment that no one wants to be found in...