Memorrhage


Memorrhage is the debut studio album by Memorrhage, a nu metal project by American musician Garry Brents. Brents has also made music with the bands Gonemage, Homeskin, Cara Neir, Sallow Moth, and Prabstruse, amongst many others, since 2004. He also collaborated with Vision Eternel between 2010–2012. A variety of styles span these projects, including: black metal, death metal, grindcore, screamo, post-rock, and electronic music.

Writing and composition

According to Brents:
The opening track, Memory Leak, was initially composed in a "very spontaneous moment" in 2022, before Brents had decided to create a full album. Lyrically, it concerns "an entity in a video game becoming sentient and causing a huge data leak, which affects other realities". The lyrics of Old Wave concern the emotions of an obsolete android accepting the fact that newer models supersede it. Reek focuses on the experience of a service robot aboard a spaceship, which eventually becomes displeased with the presence of humans, sending it into a deranged fury which leads to its takeover of the spacecraft.
Several tracks on the album have been compared to that of Mudvayne, Deftones, Car Bomb, Korn, Slipknot, Coal Chamber, Fear Factory and Spineshank. General influences from other genres such as industrial music and metalcore have also been noted.
A remarkably large roster of guest musicians are employed for almost all of the tracks on the album.

Reception

The Toilet ov Hell gave the album an uncharacteristically positive review, describing it as "a testament to genre fandom, wrapped in an emotive cyberpunk aesthetic". Speaking for Metal Temple, Lesley-Ann Ang describes Memorrhage as "one to keep an eye out for". Josiah Aden of Noizze describes it as "a delicious mix of all the most exciting parts of nu metal". Gary Davidson of Echoes and Dust proclaims that "in his usual manner Garry Brents has picked a genre and packed a release full of all its aspects without overwhelming".
A less positive review was given by Tasha Brown of Distorted Sound Magazine, stating that "when an album goes full throttle so quickly, there’s very little room for it to do anything else" and that the album "would have served better as a series of EPs rather than a full-length".

Track listing

Personnel

Adapted from the album's page on Bandcamp.
; Memorrhage
  • Garry Brents - lead vocals, instruments, FX, production
; Guest musicians
  • Adam Bailey - additional high vox on 2, 3
  • Aki McCullough - additional high vox on 2, 7, 8
  • beeb. music - vocal intro on 8
  • Billy Hinton - vocal intro on 8
  • Christian Degn - vocal scream intro on 2
  • Fire-Toolz - additional high vox on 4, 5
  • Ilya Mirosh - lead clean vox on 9, 10
  • Kierzo - additional shouting vox on 8
  • Leo Ashline - vocal intro on 8
  • Lizzy Venom of The Watchyrz - vocal intro on 8
  • Mike Gardell - vocal intro on 8
  • Mr. Rager - DJ scratches on 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
  • Nick Hertzberg - ending vocal shouts on 10
  • Sakura Pups - additional high vox on 7
  • Schuler Benson - additional low/high vox on 2
  • Stilgar - additional clean vox on 5, 10
  • The Ember, The Ash - additional low/high vox on 2, 9
  • tttlllrrr - DJ scratches/sampling on 10, 11
  • VoidDweller - additional shouting vox on 8, lead vox & lyrics on 11
; Personnel