EP Review: Inertia – Memoria (Resist Records)

Sydney band Inertia’s forthcoming EP ‘Memoria’ will be released on March 18th, 2022 via Resist Records.

Written as a concept EP, ‘Memoria’ sets out in hope to connect with listeners on multiple levels. Tackling subjects such as revenge, hopelessness, inequality and self-identity, the record pulls the listener in with down-to-earth lyrics through the lens of a dystopian future.

They themselves describe wanting this EP to sound like Spiritbox and The Weeknd had a baby. It’s an interesting thought and something that certainly has a ring of truth once you’ve hit play on Memoria.

To call this a forward-thinking listen, an EP with all the mannerisms of a band channelling their influences and making their own bastardised sound, is an understatement. Memoria might only be 5-tracks long, but it is a hefty showcase of the heavy melodrama, effects-laden and in-your-face metal that Inertia are so very good at.

There’s some clear and identifiable passion to what Inertia are doing here and it’s also clear that they’re not struggling for ideas.

So the whole Spiritbox/The Weeknd baby thing? How does that stack up and does it make much sense? Impactful darkly themed lyrical content and music that can make you want to open up a circle pit, even if you’re doing it with tears running down your face. Inertia certainly help conceptualise a wide-array of thoughts and feelings that will be familiar to many listeners. Though, they’re also capable of just delivering buzz-saw riffs, scathing bass lines and crashing drum beats. The stuff that makes you head-bang as hard as humanly possible.

The highlight of the EP is probably Nemesis but each track offers something that hooks you in.

Inertia – Memoria Full Track Listing:

1. Arisaka
2. Hivemind
3. Parallels
4. Nemesis
5. Memoria

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