The limited edition vinyl format is pressed onto opaque red with black splatter colored vinyl, and features a custom laser etching that includes the album's lyrics etched directly into the vinyl. The artwork - comprised of historic photocopied images from Baltimore's pre-gentrified inner harbor - was designed by Ryan Patterson of Coliseum and Black Cross. Behind Closed Doors were a young hardcore band from Baltimore, MD. As the title of this collection suggests, their tenure was all too brief. Formed in 1996 and disbanded by 1998, Behind Closed Doors released a scarce, minimally packaged 12" on the historic punk imprint, Vermin Scum (Moss Icon, Born Against, Universal Order of Armageddon) and quickly became renowned in the Baltimore/DC region for their unusually long, dynamic songs and alarmingly unhinged live shows. Bridging the crazed emotions of early screamo bands like Heroin and Angel Hair, the thoughtful complexity of Unwound, and the sinister heaviness of His Hero Is Gone, Behind Closed Doors was a huge bolt of lightning in a very tiny bottle. They broke up while in the process of writing what would have been their debut full-length for Temporary Residence in 1998, leaving behind a recorded legacy of what they were, and a blueprint of what they could've been. Exit Lines: The Brief History of Behind Closed Doors collects the entire recorded history of Behind Closed Doors. Remastered from the original studio master tapes by Alan Douches at West West Side (Converge, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Mastodon), these songs have never sounded more visceral.
