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Battery, originally entitled "Fury", was first established in 1990 and released a 4 song self-titled 7" on Deadlock Records in 1991. The record saw Brian McTernan on vocals, Ken Olden and Matt Squire on guitars, Toshi Yano on bass and Zac Eller on drums. The songs from this original 7" were re-recorded and released as an EP entitled "We Won't Fall" in 1993 on the German record label Lost & Found. The band, as it states in the liner notes of the EP, then turned into Worlds Collide with Matt Burger becoming the new vocalist. The band achieved phenomenal success...

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 dance-ability of EBM together in one powerful package, the trio quickly gained a reputation for their in-your-face...

Love Battery gehörten zu den Grunge-Bands der ersten Stunde und kamen aus dem Grunge-Mekka Seattle und veröffentlichten auch ihre ersten Platten auf dem Kultlabel Sub Pop. Ähnlich wie die Screaming Trees hat ihre Musik einen stark psychedelischen Einschlag. Die bis heute (sporadisch) aktive Band schaffte nie den großen Durchbruch, einige Ex-Bandmitglieder hatten später in anderen Bands Erfolg, wie Gründungsdrummer Dan Peters mit Mudhoney, oder der spätere Drummer Jason Finn mit den Presidents of the USA. .

Battery 9 (pronounced, in Afrikaans, as Battery Nege), an industrial music project from Johannesburg, South Africa, is the brainchild of Paul Riekert, who writes, plays and records the music in a mixture of English and Afrikaans. Riekert started recording under the name Battery 9 in 1994, bored with the creative constraints of a standard rock band format. A platform to run various projects from, One F Music, was subsequently founded, in the form of an independent record label and a small home studio. The first Battery 9 album, Protskrog, was released in 1995. Made and backed by little more than...