it is really crazy to think about making this record. i was still a young child, freshly back from the Sleep Chamber European tour, and full of ideas. Jeremy and AJ and i were still working our way through making Product, but arguing a lot and going down a lot of different paths creatively, so it was kind of stalling out. for a couple of years already, i had been writing a bunch of songs that i knew would never make it through that gateway, so i was kind of thinking ‘ok i will just have a solo side project’ to get this stuff out… i had a bunch of songs that Josh was mix engineering, and although none of them made it to this record, some of those were interesting.

Josh and i were living together at this time, and i was supposed to start producing the next Sleep Chamber record following that tour, so i figured i started working on that during the pauses on the Battery Cage record. tracks like ‘Obsession/Compulsion’ and ‘Drug Fix’ were given over to John Zewizz, but he couldn’t make it work for him… to be honest, it was radically stylistically different from Sleep Chamber’s sound, i was too immature and inexperienced as a producer to do that job properly. John had a serious drug problem to contend with, so that probably didn’t help… that collab went nowhere. so Josh helped me mix out a bunch of the material that made it onto this record, although some of the tracks from 1998 i was doing myself under some pretty grim conditions involving pretty serious drug use and the death of a dear friend…it’s hard for me to even listen to a lot of this one.

in any event, this record took several years to get wrapped up, long enough that i had already started working with Stacey on some of the tracks that made it into sex.drug.sequence, so i think her turn here on ‘Echolalia’ was probably the last thing recorded for this one. the remixes were all done by friends, who i considered to be doing some of the more interesting stuff in the boston area.

overall, to me this is a pretty tough record to get into, underproduced under bad circumstances, even though some of the songs are pretty tight, it’s not my most emotionally mature record (but then, what even is?).

Recorded over a period of 5 years, the debut album 'Hate Life' bristles with aggressive vocals, disturbing lyrics and punishing electronic beats.

Originally intended as an extension of Battery Cage's own debut 'Product', AEC stands on it's own, delivering dancefloor ready tracks such as 'Jealous Much?' and 'Burned Alive' as well as more introspective darkwave flavours on 'Freezing To Death' and 'Obsession/Compulsion'. 'Hate Life' also features remixes from three diverse and underappreciated industrial acts.

Fans of "90's Industrial", coldwave, and old school EBM will appreciate this album!

All songs programmed, engineered and produced by Tyler Newman except where noted below:

Additional Production on Hate Life and Jealous Much by Da5id Din
Additional Production on Burned Alive, Evil Inside, and Drug Fix by Adam Jensen
Engineering on Hate Life and Drug Fix by Joshua Greco
Vocals on Echolalia by Stacey P.
Mastered by Da5id Din at Corrosive Audio

Recorded at OFFworld Studios, Boston MA (for the most part)

some additional production performed at Subterranean Studios, Boston MA.

Burned Alive (Graft Mix) remixed by Pneumatic Detach
Jealous Much (Exodus 20:17) remixed by Infrastructure
Echolalia (electroicyfunk) remixed by Grenadier

thanks for the love and hate that kept it going: stephanie, erin, cat, joanna,
jessica, siouxsie, jeremy, aj, will and all my drug dealers over the years

thanks for the help and everything else: ruth, da5id, jen, matt, raab, josh,
roland, paul, alex, stacey, adam, justin, stacia, rice, deftly-d, perry,
craig, my mom, dad, and sister, everyone i met along the way, and everyone
who helped and supported me during these deeply troubled times.