The Mercy Cage, based in Tauranga, New Zealand, formed in early 1999 and have since earned themselves a reputation as the country's leading EBM band on record and live. Their first album, Wire, was released by numb/benign records in January 2000, and was followed by
Rust: A Fiction on
Mediatrix Publishing in late 2001. After several label delays, the band's third release,
Scree:Transmissions found a home with
DSBP in May 2005.