battery cage

Battery Cage started in 1995 with me, Jeremy Page, and AJ Kaelin. We were part of a small, intense scene in Boston — raw, loud, and always close to the edge of collapse. We felt unstoppable and unmatched by our peers. We signed to SINless Records and finished our debut album, Product, in 1997. It was aggressive and uncompromising in the best way — distorted vocals, brutal beats, dissonant melodies. We thought it might actually break through.

It didn’t. The label closed it’s doors just as we handed the album in, and Product ended up shelved. That hurt. Jeremy and AJ moved on, and I was suddenly the only one left.

In 2001, I started again — this time with Josh Greco, who had engineered Product, Paul Savio, and Roland Adams. We rebuilt from scratch and leaned more into club energy and club drugs. That became World Wide Wasteland, and in 2003 we dropped our first single, “Ecstasy,” on my own label, solid.grey.sky.recordings. DJs picked it up, and that attention led to a deal with Metropolis Records. They released the album almost immediately and we had plenty of live shows and touring after that.

In 2005, we finally gave Product the release it deserved — remastered, new artwork, and liner notes that told the real story. I still think that album says everything about where we were at the time: angry, defiant, and trying to make a dent in a dying musical universe.

A Young Person’s Guide to Heartbreak followed in 2006. It's definitely the most emotionally destructive record we ever made. I struggle to listen to it these days. We even released a single from it called “Single” — a joke, kind of. In 2008, we put out Forever Never Ends, a double EP with new songs and remixes, and then... we stopped. No big drama, just silence. Felt like I’d said just about everything I could say in this direction, musically and lyrically.

Battery Cage is on hiatus for now. But the archives exist and I’ve started pulling some things together again. Remasters, rarities — someday, maybe.