Memorrhage is the eponymous debut studio album by Memorrhage, anu metal project by American musician Garry Brents (born October 4, 1987). Brents has also made music with the bands Gonemage, Homeskin, Cara Neir, Sallow Moth, and Prabstruse, amongst many others, since 2004.^[3][4] He also collaborated withVision Eternel between 2010–2012.^[5][6] A variety of styles span these projects, including: black metal, death metal, grindcore, screamo, post-rock, and electronic music.

Memorrhage
Studio album by Memorrhage
Released	June 16, 2023
Recorded	November–December 2022
Genre	Nu metal[1][2]
Length	35:35
Label	Big Money Cybergrind
Producer	Garry Brents
Memorrhage chronology
Memorrhage (2023) Anyo (2024)
Garry Brents chronology
Astral Corridors (2023; as Gonemage) Memorrhage (2023) Spell Piercings (2024; as Gonemage)

According to Brents:

This album is a nostalgic tribute to growing up in the 90's with nu-metal as the first genre I latched on to, moved away from for nearly 20 years, and then came back to with more appreciation and love for the genre than I did as a kid. A lot of different sounds from the genre shape this album along with influences from other heavy music like industrial metal, grind, and metallic hardcore.

Each song on this album represents its own 'episode' like a sci-fi anthology with different perspectives revolving around cybernetics, time travel, mechs, and body horror. The vibe of Terminator 2 crossed with Hellraiser, Robotech, and Deus Ex.^[7]

The opening track,Memory Leak, was initially composed in a "very spontaneous moment" in 2022, before Brents had decided to create a full album.^[8] Lyrically, it concerns "an entity in a video game becoming sentient and causing a huge data leak, which affects other realities".^[9] The lyrics ofOld Wave concern the emotions of an obsolete android accepting the fact that newer models supersede it.^[10]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.^[11]

Several tracks on the album have been compared to that ofMudvayne,Deftones,Car Bomb,Korn,Slipknot,Coal Chamber,Fear Factory andSpineshank.^[12][13] General influences from other genres such asindustrial music andmetalcore have also been noted.^[11]

A remarkably large roster of guest musicians are employed for almost all of the tracks on the album.^[8][14]

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".^[10] Speaking forMetal Temple, Lesley-Ann Ang describesMemorrhage as "one to keep an eye out for".^[15] Josiah Aden ofNoizze describes it as "a delicious mix of all the most exciting parts of nu metal".^[16] Gary Davidson ofEchoes 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".^[17]

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".^[18]

Adapted from the album's page on Bandcamp.

Memorrhage

• Garry Brents - lead vocals, instruments, FX, production (recording/mixing)

Guest musicians

Personnel

• Cristian "AbueloRetroWave" Aranda - cover art
• Angel Marcloid - mastering