Album Notes

Vein Cage should have been back swiftly after 1992's CD "Feral Din" - the writing process was quickly underway - but the subject matter surrounding the album's creation ultimately led to Peter DiNardi leaving it on the shelf, unfinished, in rough mix and demo forms. Years later, Mark Alan Miller (sometimes collaborator of Peter's, and driving force behind Out Out) was granted care of these tapes.

And in short order, Miller found a superb album lying in the rubble. Through-composed in many spots, aggressive, dark, predominantly mid-tempo and grinding. At times very groove-heavy, in a kind-of hip-hop, metal-infused way that would appear in DiNardi's later works. Several very complete arrangements well juxtaposed with engaging instrumentals and several song fragments - hints of what could have been. But more than strong enough to stand on their own as a relentless, and sometimes punishingly brutal, "lost" second album.

Not just for the hardcore Vein Cage collector, this is effectively a heavy industrial-rock history lesson, available to the world now for the first time.