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Artist
The Mercy Cage
12+ albums
industrialdarkwaveebmelectro-industrialPost-Industrial
about
Formed in early 1999 from the ashes of seminal alt/goth-rock band The Altar, the group recorded & released a series of semi-anonymous demo mp3s on now defunct internet music site mp3.com during 1999. the success of these early recordings online [the tracks Misericordia & Resurrection Complex topped mp3.com's Industrial, Darkwave, Oceania & New Zealand charts] quickly caught the attention of fledgling new Zealand indie label numb/benign records. numb/benign released The Mercy Cage debut album Wire in January 2000. A track from Wire, Trauma/Skin Chamber also featured on the Club Bizarre dark-end compilation Blackmarket. The band immediately retired to the studio to begin work on a follow-up. Towards the end of these sessions, The Mercy Cage signed a deal with NZ label Mediatrix, home to FEARvLOATHINC, Jordan Reyne & Shemsu Hor among others. 18 months in the making, Rust: A Fiction:stories from the black room was released in late 2001. a concept album melding a number of musical styles into a cohesive package, the CD has gone on to become the best selling release in the labels history. Rust: A Fiction was followed by two remix singles for the songs Needle Marks (& Scars) & the club hit "M",& an E.P containing reworkings of unreleased tracks from the Rust:A Fiction sessions entitled Valium:Toxicity v2.0. augmented with guitars, acoustic drums & extra synthesis, The Mercy Cage became a live entity in 2002. a tour with labelmates N.U.T.E followed, & incendiary headlining perfor
