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Reviewed
by: Darklight
Battery
Cage
consists of Informatik's Tyler Newman as well as Joshua
Greco, Paul Savio and Roland Adams. This debut of theirs blends electro-industrial
and EBM with the slight addition of rock. They make the type of music
that hooks you right away with its heavy aggressive edge and catchy
hooks.
What I like about Battery Cage is that they do one
thing here, and do it well. A lot of artists in the industrial/EBM music
scene sometimes try and offer too much variety on their albums preventing
them from being consistent from start to finish. But that's not the
case with Battery Cage. From song one to song eleven
they unleash energetic powerful music that never lets up. Their music
is hard and heavy, but extremely infectious as well. It's like modern
coldwave with an electronic rock vibe, but with the emphasis mainly
on electronics and less on rock. But there's enough rock elements from
how the songs are structured to the guitars that give them a cyber-core
edge. This is made even more evident by the angry deep toned vocals
that sing with raw emotion. Unfortunately, the song "Hater"
takes the rock sound a little too far in my opinion. It basically sounds
like a heavy metal song lacking the electronic side of the rest of the
album. Thankfully, it's a short song that doesn't interrupt the flow
of the CD for too long.
The only real complaint I have with this CD is that it only offers nine
original songs. The song "Hater" is out of place, so this only
leaves eight original songs that I really like. But thankfully the remixes
provided by Headscan
and Stromkern are
really good. Headscan provides a more electronic club
version of the song "Ecstasy", while Stromkern
offers a completely revisioned version of the song "Statemachine".
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