[1] It featured Martin Atkins on drums and loops, Chris Connelly on vocals, Geordie Walker on guitar and Jah Wobble on bass.
After writing and arranging material through exchanging recordings from their own respective studios, the trio had put together a batch of instrumental ideas in need of a vocalist.
It has been said that they originally approached John Lydon (Public Image Ltd, Sex Pistols) for an amicable resurgence (both Atkins and Wobble did notable work in PiL) but he declined the opportunity.
Invisible Records later released a collected reissue of the first EP and full length album titled Double Damage as well as a remix LP.
In 2004, a resurrected Damage Manual without Walker and Wobble found Steven Seibold of the band Hate Dept.