It starts with a jam session in early 2020—three guys in a Brooklyn practice space, sketching out the bones of a track called “Crawler.”
Then the world shuts down. For 19 months, Memory Entry doesn’t touch that space again, caught in the grind of a pandemic that halts everything but the slow churn of their own heads.
By July 2023, they’ve got a name, a direction, and a debut EP—Our World Is Going to Disappear—set to drop on March 21, 2025, through Iodine Recordings and Mind Over Matter Records.
Five tracks, 200 hand-pressed vinyl copies, silkscreened and limited. A record release show’s locked for March 28 at Windjammer Bar in Ridgewood, NY, with Husbandry and Bearchild. That’s the skeleton of it.
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Keith Montgomery, the voice and guitar behind the trio—rounded out by Armando Morales on bass and Jon Lane on drums (with Chris Rogy handling all drums on the EP)—pins the real spark to mid-2023. “I was struck with the strongest artistic inspiration I ever felt in my life,” he says.
Art, music, and relentless dreams lit a fuse. “My head felt like it was on fire.” He thought about a screenplay, a movie—something big. Then it clicked: “Wait… I’m in this band and we need a direction to move in; let me put everything into this.” What came out is a jagged, restless EP that pulls from screamo, emo, hardcore, and noisecore, threading aggression with flickers of melody. It’s not polished or tidy—it’s a frayed wire sparking in the dark.
The EP’s story mirrors the band’s own: a slow crawl from heartbreak and drift into something wider, stranger. Montgomery calls it “a sonic journey into parts unknown,” rooted in the idea of an alternate world—a dreamscape where purpose looms but stays out of reach.
“Waking hours are mostly spent longing to be back in the dream world, trying to solve the puzzle,” he explains. It’s less about escape and more about wrestling with what’s left unsolved here, in the real one. The themes aren’t loud declarations; they’re murmurs under the noise—disappointment, fractured connections, the weight of time slipping away.
Our World Is Going to Disappear is a cracked lens on what’s slipping away, here and elsewhere. Montgomery, Morales, and Lane (with Rogy’s beats) don’t overplay their hand. It’s hardcore stretched thin with screamo’s howl, post-hardcore’s churn, and just enough melody to keep it from collapsing. The dream-world thread ties it together, but it’s not some lofty escape hatch—it’s a mirror, foggy and warped, reflecting the mess of staying upright in this one.
For the full track-by-track dive, Montgomery’s words lay it bare—check them out below. This is just the start; they’re already plotting a storyline to the next release.
Crawler
This is the first song we began writing for the band way back in 2020. The music came together fairly quickly (heavy Ink & Dagger influence on this one) and then the pandemic happened. Fast forward to August of 2021 when we started practicing again and I was having one of the worst years of my life.
My relationship had ended, a lot of people I thought were friends turned their back on me and I did not feel very supported by anyone during that time. These are all themes that are touched on in this song. I am also heavily involved in recovery (I have been sober for quite a long time now) so there is a hypothetical undercurrent of “what if I just relapsed and died?” running through the song as well.
Nothing Dead Will Go
I showed the guys the song “Polymer” by Bluetip and said “do you think we can do something like this?” The end result sounds nothing like Bluetip but I think this might be my favorite song on the EP and the best overall representation of what we were trying to accomplish sonically. I did all the vocals in one take. I was inspired by Dennis Lyxzén on “The Shape of Punk to Come” by Refused and all of the interesting vocal styles / variations he uses on that record. I wanted to try different things on this song and not have it just be one type of screaming.
The lyrics are almost all stream of consciousness. I would just yell out the syllables and shape words around them. They are the first to touch on the dream world / alternate existence concept. Think of this song as a being trapped in another existence; thinking a lot about someone but not being able to reach them and seeing that they’re in danger and not being able to help them.
Familiars
I am bad at writing primarily single note guitar songs. I have always wanted to write one but could never do it so I’m really glad this song happened. It came about from a jam session with all of us and turned into this song. Whenever you get more than 2 people together, corruption is inevitably going to take place.
Divisions are formed. Secrets are told. People are left out and mistreated. Lyrically I touch on those themes and my general disappointment with adults who act like high school children. I went with a different vocal style that I thought matched the grooviness of the song better. Again, more Ink & Dagger influence.
Lost Dreams
The next song on the EP that touches on the existence of the dream world / alternate reality. We really struggled with this song, both perfecting the music and me deciding what it would be about. When the concept of the alternate reality came to me (along with the band name) in summer of 2023, I knew this song needed to touch on those themes.
At the time I wrote the lyrics I was really hung up on the past, sad about being older, thinking I would never love anyone again, thinking I would never be loved again and that I had wasted most of my life being selfish and irresponsible in my youth. These themes are touched on in the song and this song is the bridge to the discovery of the alternate world and everything that will be explored in LP1.
Holler Wild Rose
You often hear about bands doing their best work under extreme pressure or limited time and that their best and biggest songs come together quickly in the studio when some manager says “we need a hit”. With that in mind and only 2 weeks until we went into the studio to record – I pushed us to write a 5th song for the EP and this was the result. It’s one of our favorites and it ended up being one of the more aggressive songs which I love and I think was needed for the EP. I blew out my voice four times and almost passed out recording the vocals for this. In a greater sense – the song is about measuring your expectations of situations and other people. In a more literal sense: when I was 24 I was in a band called Paper Tiger.
We played one of our first shows with a band called “Holler, Wild Rose!”. We played and my friends stood outside. HWR played and blew the roof off of the place. At least 50 people came up to me afterwards and asked “who played after you?”.
The song is about the disappointment I felt that night and I named the song after HWR. When we posted this single I ended up connecting with their drummer Ryan Smyth on Instagram – great guy and a great band. Interactions like those are one positive aspect of the digital hellscape we currently live in.
