Battery Cage lives one of Nietzsche’s more famous maxims: “If you stare into the abyss too long, the abyss stares into you.”  In the sonic world of Forever Never Ends, love is loss and losing is inevitable.  From the expansive, downbeat wallowing of “Forever Never Ends” and “Even Colder Inside Her” to the more aggressive paean to disappointment and disillusionment “No One Else to Blame,” Battery Cage fuse synths, programming, coldwave guitars, and Tyler Newman’s expressive vocals into a post-industrial style that innovates instead of imitates.  Closing the album are four remixes of tracks from Battery Cage’s previous A Young Person’s Guide to Heartbreak; here, too, Battery Cage follows the untrod path.  While the group could have tacked on remixes to cater to the dance floor, they went for versions that present the songs in a bold new light.  I’m especially enamored with the industrial-ska of the Electro Skank Mix of “Something Wonderful.”  The only thing I dislike about this album is that Forever Never Ends is likely to be the last thing we here from Battery Cage for quite a while.

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