Venereology (album)

Venereology is a studio album by the Japanese noise musician Merzbow. It was the first of five Merzbow albums released by the American heavy metal label Relapse Records, under their Release Entertainment imprint, and as such was responsible for bringing Merzbow's work to a much wider audience in the United States.

This album is Merzbow's take on death metal and grindcore. The liner notes for Venereology are much more detailed than most of the ones for Merzbow recordings which usually only include a few websites and a tracklist. The album was reissued in 2006.

Track Listing

All music composed by Masami Akita.

Notes

Track 3 is an excerpt of a live performance at Yaneura II on February 5, 1994.

Personnel

• Masami Akita – decomposition, mixing
• Reiko A – noise on track 3
• Bara – vocals on track 3
• Mackerel Can Molding Company – live recording on track 3
• Kazuyoshi Kimoto – bass guitar on end part of track 2
• Antoine Bernhart – atrocity photos research
• Naomi Hosokawa – photos transformation assisted
• Abtechtonics – art direction, color
• David Shirk – mastering
• Matt Jacobson – executive producer, visual & logo interpretation for production
• Bill Yurkiewicz – executive producer

External links

• Discogs entry