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Review on Inade' live act in London by Richard Leviathan

V.I.T.R.I.O.L. 7inch (John C. Smith)

V.I.T.R.I.O.L. 7inch (Sigill Magazine)

V.I.T.R.I.O.L. 7inch (JUDAS KISS Magazine)

V.I.T.R.I.O.L. 7inch (MN-magazine)

COLLIDING DIMENSIONS TOUR - REPORT, by Jason Mantis

"SEVEN" e-zine has several INADE reviews:

"BURNING FLESH"

"ALDEBARAN"

"COLLIDING DIMENSIONS tour"

Some old reviews

"Masters Of The Unknown, The Sonically Obscure…"

Inade,Con-Dom,Grey Wolves, Dieter Muhr, Hagshadow - The Red Rose Club, Seven Sisters, London, Summer 1999.

I am grateful to Marco Deplano for alerting me to this evening of darkwave ambience (or what I prefer to call 'black noise' on account of the element of order that underlies the chthonic nature of the sound).

I arrived just in time for The Grey Wolves set, an impressive sequence of power electronics that began with the libertine ultimatum: 'you will deny nothing: coitus, anal coitus, masturbation and fellatio', a daemonic motif complimented by an exquisite selection of aesthetic-erotic images through which the Wolves'controlled tempest of rage fulminated like an iron storm of ethereal energy.

Con-dom were next, a solo performance delivered by a lithe, bare-chested figure growling from a maelstrom of sinister violence in which the unpleasantly intoxicating themes of rape, drug addiction and social degradation filled the room like a voracious miasma. The set reached a pinnacle of un-adulterated force as the dark icon of an urban terrorist emerged defiantly from the flames of a burning sub-human edifice. But Con-dom could not be done without provoking at least some members of the audience into revolt. Proclaiming over and over again that 'Women need rape', a few hecklers began a chorus of their own that mirrored the impunity with which the masked misogynist asserted himself.I am convinced that there would have been a more positive response from the crowd had this sequence been omitted but the menacing style of Con-dom seemed to be driving inexorably towards this brutal culmination.

Finally, Germany's Inade appeared beneath a veil of Tibetan ceremony, an enimatic pulse of ritual mystery that transformed the atmoshere of disturbance left over from the previous performance. The plaintive tones of traditional pipes (played live) imbued the air with the pure Ohm of cosmic emptiness as the duo brought the first sequence to its haunting close.

There followed a muted hiatus of near-silence as the screen dissolved into the broken semblance of a stone fountain through which the brown sepia image of the Fuhrer cast a grim white shadow over one of Arno Brecker's heroic sculptures, a ghost of victory that floated across the scene like the fractured vestige of a persistent memory. I began to contemplate the connection between the first Buddhist phase and the Occidental vision of Aryan dissolution when Inade themselves returned to the barren heights of the Vulture's Peak, the Tibetan pipes rising with the oceanic rythymn of an invisible, numinous presence. Like clockwork, Inade's set ended at exactly midnight but the pulse of eternity they had released continued to beat into the heart of the witching hour. A splendid close to a memorable and well-attended evening.

Richard Leviathan

BURNING FLESH MC (S.Knappe)

Absolut fantastisch, das Debut-Tape von Inade, welches urspruenglich 1993 in einer Doppel-MC-Box erschienen war. Dies ist `archaic music`pur: maechtige dunkle Konstrukte voller Tiefe und Transzendenz, vergleichbar mit dem Erstlingswerk von Yen Pox.

BURNING FLESH MC (ESKHATOS-Magazine)
Ok, it took me a while to warm up to these guys but they are starting to grow on me. The sound here is slow occult textures and darkside electronics. There is a lot of overlap with what Archon Satani is doing.  Occasionally delving into the arenas of darkness ruled by the likes of Inanna or some of the more minima- listic works by Die Sonne Satan. These guys are better than average but not really magnificent. I can appre- ciate what they are doing but for my taste, it is more like a contribution to a body of work than innovation.  The track titles say it all, Shattered Bones, Coming Of The Black Legions, Storm Of Fire, Through Gates Of Death and others. Not a bad entrance, I would like to see where they go with it.

BURNING FLESH/THE AXXIARM PLAINS EP (Jason Mantis, AUDIO DRUDGE #6/USA)
Another vital entry into the German electronics scene. Inade lead us down quite a shadowy pathway with these, some of their first releases. Subterranean layers of washy atmospheres and moderately intense electronics that never become aggressive, but remain relatively low key and calm-ominous drones, loops and haunted factory noises fluctuate and tremor discreetly, with intermittent soft explosions breaking up the brooding ambience. Inade exudes a sort of detached isolating quality-abysmal black holes which draw in all things, a soul-gravity so powerful that even the light of hope can never escape. It's desolate, cold and pessimistic music for a future that appears equally as bleak... hail the new breed!

THE AXXIARM PLAINS EP (TDR-Magazine)
One of the most appealing sounds that have recently reached us is produced by this German formation.  So far, Inade have only had 2 tape releases on Loki Foundation, but this limited discography has not kept them from establishing a solid reputation in a very short period of time. The Axxiarm Plains is their first 7inch and is based on the ideas of V.Majakowski, the dynamic Russian poet and painter who put his talents at the service of the construction of a communist society because he believed it would help to break down the boundaries of modern society and would lead to a new and better world. The mere knowledge of this very conscient deeper dimension should suffer to pique your curiosity. For the more sceptic and hesitant listeners I would still like to say that Inade`s music penetrates into deepest parts of man+s conscious and subconscious mind with a blend of pulsating trance rhythms and droning fields of sound in monumental textures that are both awesome and moving. This 7inch was a real discovering for me and  I hope that it will be one for you too.

THE AXXIARM PLAINS EP (K.Holewczynski)
A three-song EP based on the writings of Russian artist Majakowski, The Axxiarm Plains begins with Breaking The Walls, and the low rumble of crowd noise, an occasional bell and washes of white noise that slowly take over the entire track. Above the Plains is a softer, ambient piece featuring a cycling wail and an rising pulse that gives rhythm to the cut. The climax of this EP is Movement and Construction, with a distorted synth-sounding loop which serves as ist foundation, upon wich are layered white noise and random factory percussion.The synth loop drives the piece with static intensity and a sense of frenzy. I will be waiting for further releases from Inade as this has whet my appetite for their work.

THE AXXIARM PLAINS EP (AUF ABWEGEN-Magazine)
Die ideologisch etwas fragwuerdig operierenden Inade von der Loki Foundation produzieren Klaenge, die harsch-rhythmisch nach vorne preschen und mit Stimmverfremdungen und ueberspannten Loops angerei- chert sind. Kein einfacher Hoergenuss.

THE AXXIARM PLAINS EP (SIGILL-Magazine)
Gut Ding will Weile haben. Seit der letzten Inade-Veroeffentlichung sind 2 Jahre vergangen und ich moech- te sagen, es ist vorwaerts gegangen. Die vorliegende EP im milchigen clear Vinyl mit handgemachten Cover und Insert setzt sich mit den Ideen des russischen Malers und Dichters Majakowski auseinander. Grenzen und  Mauern der modernen Gesellschaft sollen zerstoert werden -aber nicht um der blossen Zerstoerung will- en- sondern um etwas Neues, Positives zu erschaffen. Stirb und Werde im Rahmen unserer Zeit. Breaking The Walls, der erste Track, entstand zusammen mit Dagda Mor unter dem Projektnamen MK Ultra. Sofort erken- nen wir auch die Weiterentwicklung von Inade, welche in Movement und Construction ihren Hoehepunkt er- reicht: lauter und aggressiver, ohne jedoch nervig, chaotisch oder ziellos zu wirken. In ihrer voellig eigen- staendigen und stetigen Bewegung haben sie eine gute EP konstruiert.

THE AXXIARM PLAINS EP (LAST SIGH Webzine)
Unlike many of Drone Records' releases, this 7" by Inade is presented in a very simple cover, bearing merely the band name and title of the single in black and white design. However, if the cover is nothing to write volumes about, the three compositions presented on the disc are.
Slowed voices, distorted beyond any possible comprehension, open Side A and "Breaking The Walls." Soon, the first gusts of a stormy sound front move in, and with its icy howl, set metallic objects in motion. Their cold clanking echoes in the distance of this short but stark piece, which was originally created in collaboration with Dagda Mor.
"Above The Plains" likewise features a large ominous presence hovering over the entire composition. Vibrating, sonorous pulses travel through the piece at steady intervals, while the tinkling ruminations of metallic objects, and the singing sound as of a saber being pulled from its scabbard, flash against the tense buzzing curtain of sound.
All of Side B -- "Movement And Construction" -- is one extended piece. A wave of foreboding atmospheres rise at the outset, but is soon beaten down by an aggressive, speeding electronic chord progression that trails through the entire track at a steady accelerating pace. In accordance with its title, "Movement And Construction" has a great sense of kinetic energy, and like the other tracks on Side A, has its fair share of crashing metallic sounds and soughing sonic beams. It is easily the most intense piece on the 7", developing a very frantic mood, as it thrusts forward at ever increasing revolutions into a final swirling whir that continues to develop and mutate until the very end.
This is the second edition of The Axxiarm Plains, which was originally released by Drone Records in April, 1995. The single is pressed on clear vinyl, and was at the time of its initial appearance, Inade's first release on a medium other than cassette. They have since gone on to have a 10" (The Flood Of The White Light) put out on the American label Malignant, and a full-length CD entitled Aldebaran on Cold Spring.

ALDEBARAN CD (John Smith)
Inade are unquestionably the most original explorers of dark atmospheric-scratch that, the meager categorization dark atmospheric barely touches on the sonic terrain unearthed here. Inade are beyond categorization. rarely has a disc embraced such a vast array of unclassifiliable tones and kinetic textures; the sounds manipulated on Aldebaran are from oblique, alien perception, as if the foreign quality of the music is because the creators are not of this earth. The disc consists of four songs, each one split into two parts (the disc distinguishes eight tracks). Signals From 68 Dimensions is an audacious introduction, a full on ascent into a region of space where dimensions collide; the second part of this song contains some of the strangest alien vocalizations imaginable. The current of dimensions overrides both halves, juxtaposing alien, insectile, and even remotely human elements in a boiling pot of sound. The Conquest Of Being Seperated is constructed around an ominous drip- ping sound, from which swirling synths grow more prevalent and shards of corroded sound punture; dead voices are snatched from the vast vortex that is the edge of nothingness, from which the dreamship is sucked into a vault of massive, beautiful machine created void. It is more full than empty, and indicative of a place never traveled. Until now The Crushing Of Earthly Foundations is the point where the human is abandoned, upon soundwave shores, voices again rising from the tumult, eerie singing just clinging to the last vestiges of humanity. Rhythmic pounding and increasingly caustic soundwaves drench the soul in forgetfulness...the final step before the metamorphosis...into what? Time is at a juncture here as pterodactyls screech above the singing. There are so many images triggered by the sounds that the reviewer is left grasping at straws, trying to evaluate, describe, set forth in a fashion remotely acceptable. And yet, that may be the magic of this disc, in that it opens doorways to places never visualized, now vaguely etched into the mind+s eye. Aldebaran is a trave- logue of never before explored regions of sound, space and time. The key word upon listening to this disc is ALIEN. Finally The End Of The Beginning bouncing off the vortex walls, exhalations of another species, the wind from nowhere...the engines of space, the apex of time and dimension, the machinisations of alien civilizations...all of the elements coagulate into a voluminous gurgling void, the throat of eternity gawking wide open...Astonishing!

ALDEBARAN CD (M.Lenz)
Eine -auch klangtechnisch- professionell produzierte Konzept-CD auf Cold Spring Records hat die Loki-Formation Inade mit Aldebaran vorgelegt. Schon die Verpackung signalisiert, dass es sich hier nicht lediglich um das Ergebnis oberflaechlicher, habitueller Aneignung eines Szene-Themas handelt.  Der magische Realist und skeptische Romantiker Raziwehl hat einst darauf hingewiesen, dass man das Unwirkliche unmoeglich direkt, sondern nur mittelbar durch Reflektion der Zwischenraeume des Wirklichen ansprechen kann. Diese Erfahrung scheinen auch Inade zur Maxime erhoben zu haben. Der einfuehlsame Tonwert sei hier ungebuehrend knapp als industriell verwurzelte Ritualmusik mit (transatmo)sphaerischen Anklaengen und sparsamen, nur knapp an der Hoergrenze angesetzten Spracheinlagen angedeutet. Dass sich Inade dabei nicht im Sumpf der trance- maessigen Beliebigkeiten und Frequenzspielereien verliefen, macht die Scheibe zum angenehmen Hoererlebniss, das durch Drogengenuss sicherlich noch zu steigern waere- und, nebenbei bemerkt, ausgesprochen gut geeignet fuer ein Experiment der Aussendung des Astralkoerpers zu den aldebaranischen Verbuendeten.  gegen Ende der CD wird uebrigens ein liebgewonnener alter Bekannter in ueberraschendem Zusammenhang im O-Ton zitiert...

ALDEBARAN CD (EMERALD-Magazine)
Aldebaran is a truly ingenious recording of intergalactic dark ambiences and undulating spacious textures fo- cusing upon the German Vril-society myths believed to be a source of universal spirituality. Inade take you on a mind expanding continuum through the furthest reaches of the solar system.  These eight soundscapes are detached from our human existance, yet compromised of astral forces surrounding all lifeforms in the cos- mos. Signals From 68 Dimensions perfectly builds an air of dark foreboding while unlocking the ancient barriers between different worlds. The second part is a menacing swirl of atmosphereic swelling and nebular emissions accompanied by low inhuman tones. The Crushing Of Earthly Foundations begins with a distant under- current which escalates in surmounting tension, carrying a whirlwind of eerie disembodied cries. An incredible out of body experience recommended for fans of CMI complete with
exceptional packaging and production values.

ALDEBARAN CD (Igor Vaganov/Achtung Baby!)
As is well known, the esoteric rituals of worship to mighty gods for aeons were the most important part of human existance. Hidden behind the celestial luminaries, the indulge world of human awe, faith, life longings, survival and understandings of the metaphysical processes, dominated both around and in us.  In the eve of World War II a certain secret theosophical community in Germany, carrying name Vril society, has undertake an attempt of reincarnation of power and might of ancient myths, based on statement that the whole ecumanical human spirituality (either as the race itself) take headwaterses and are inherited from the ancient constellation of Aldebaran -a black star of sacred knowledge. Really existed  German logotypes of 20-ies lied then in the base for dark, noisy, perfect and doom hymns.
...This is the beginning of the end for you and me. The black light of the universe illuminates the internal world. Open your eyes for the 68 dimensions...This is the level, where the shades of mysterious knowledge are darker than reality.
Fix the traces of the past. They could have prompt you way to that light. All on one! Breath this energy! Feel the pulse of the universe! Convene that power, that force as a part of your right! Fall and arise! This is only a dream. And this is the end of the beginning.......,- many years later, in 1996 on Halloween, on the insulated, pessimistically cool and intensive sound monolith, recorded on the debut CD - released on the British label Cold Spring in the riverbed of black ambient  - Aldebaran, R.Lehmann and K.Enderlein - the participians of the German electronic project Inade - newly return a myth an aforementioned constellation, to draw the intensive emotional gravitation - far enough powerful, insofar not leaving the light of hope for the future, in their own insulated, carried to transcendence, electro-acoustic designs, close on the assonance to Brian Lustmord and Yen Pox. ...  With this work they present arising out of nowhere womb of gloomy sub-sonic substances, abysses, a myste- rious ambience, on CD lenght of one hour precipitating the tightly built in the strange atmospheric harmony sound scapes of post-industrial, outlive scathing vibrations of electro-statics, spreading in the echo of pulsa- tions, rasps and drones of unseen gods, ritual-atomistic bass treatments and arising out of nowhere laryngeal ventriloquisms of vocal, hereunder complementing the oppressive claustrophobia and atmosphere of fatal des- pair into the most itself and oppresssing space. Striking all areas of exalted flesh with a sonic infiltration and opening towards the internal turbo-static vision, some kind of sound empire, generated by the Inade atmosphe- re, is skilfully cultivated in the pumped    minimalism and begins to grow rapidly, improving  in suppressing un-clear electro-steady-state pulsations in its downfall into the physiology of space, else long after the completion of record not leaving the suppressed imagination and sensation of simplicity and commonplaces of the
imper- fect surround world. Impressive work!

ALDEBARAN CD (unknown)
This is the debut CD from Inade. They are another new name to me who have immediately impressed me with
their black ambient soundscapes. The CD is in four parts, with two tracks making up each part. Signals From 68 Dimensions is a windswept soundscape with eerie noises for the first part.  The second part is when impres- sive rumles, bursts of dissonance and satanic voices get hold and clearly show that Inade are serious challen- gers as the new masters of death/doom/black ambience genre of music. The Conquest Of Being Separated is a macabre piece of beauty - heavy thuds of doom, horror soundtrack electronics and unearthly noises create an awe-inspiring slice of pandemonium which becomes more intensive and threatening in the second half of the track.  The Crushing Of Earthly Foundations has an exciting tribal, industrial rhythm with washes of unearthly noises for the first part. The black ambience takes on a gloomy frame for the second part, with tenebrous electronics providing the splend dark atmospherics. More superb black ambience is shown on The End Of The Beginning. Inade deliver some of, if not the best, compelling doom/black ambience around today. I highly  recommend you get yourself a slice of Inade.

ALDEBARAN CD (SIGILL Magazine)
Inade haben sich den Weg zu dieser wundervollen CD langsam erarbeitet, begannen mit legendaeren Kassett- enboxen, setzten spaeter bei Drone eine 7inch drauf und praesentieren mit Aldebaran auf dem britischen Kult- label Cold Spring ein wirklich ausgereiftes Werk, was von handwerklichem Koennen, Verstand , Gespuer und Professionalitaet zeugt. Bei dem Thema Schwarze Sonne scheint noch lange nicht alles gesagt, sich mit dem Mysterium beschaeftigende Gruppen spruehen nahezu vor dunklem Glanz und dem fruchtbringenden Feuer der Innovation. Neben dem Sirius koennte auch Aldebaran eine schwarze Sonne im unendlichen Universum sein. Fakt ist, im vorliegenden Falle  ist gleichnahmige CD ein mythisches Werk voller okkulter Ideen und bes- ter Black Ambient Musik. Inade haben im Laufe ihrere Entwicklung konsequent ihren eigenen Styl gefunden, der manchmal an die guten Seiten von Schloss Tegal, Werkbund oder Lustmord erinnert. Doch Vergleiche bringen wenig, denn fuer die einen ist man zu experimentell, fuer den anderen zu pulsieren und und und.    Bleibt zu bemerken, dass das Digipack schoen, aber manchmal schwer zu lesen ist.   Gesamteindruck: ueberragend gut. wer Sigill liest, sollte diese CD besitzen.

ALDEBARAN CD (S. Knappe)
Erhabene Soundmonumente, wie schwarze Monolithen im leeren Raum stehend, produzieren Inade auf ihrer ersten CD, die endlich erhaeltlich ist. Langsam bauen sich die einzelnen Stuecke auf und erzeugen eine unend- lich weitflaechige Atmosphere, kalt und klar wie im Weltenraum. Im Unterschied zu den bisher veroeffent- lichten Tapes, gehen Inade hier differenzierter zu Werke und setzten zusaetzlich Effekte ein, welche die Musik noch erweitern...erdrueckend intensiv!

ALDEBARAN CD (unknown)
Inade plunges into the black sun of secret knowledge, a mythical birthplace of universal spirituality. Quantum physics reneders rolling soundwaves and severe radiation as an audible realm of crackling demons and unfolding interdimensional lullabies. The Conquest Of Being Separated may even be the court music of Cthulhu's throne-room in the floes of frozen R'lyeh.

ALDEBARAN CD (MALIBU)
Packende, pechschwarze Ambient Music. Wie das Tosen klirrender Stuerme, das Rauschen des Schneetreibens und das droehnende Brechen des Eises in einer endlosen Polarnacht. Laesst das Blut in den Adern gefrieren, wirklich wahr.



THE FLOOD OF THE WHITE LIGHT 10inch (S.Knappe)
Lange angekuendigt, endlich erhaeltlich: 3 neue Stuecke der Gruppe aus Sachsen.    Minimale Trance und Ambients, mit Didgeridooartigen Blasinstrumenten und Effektschleifen. Sehr wirkungsvoll. Das Licht sucht sich immer den kuerzesten Weg!

THE FLOOD OF THE WHITE LIGHT 10inch (PENGO-Newsletter)
Inade has just released an excellent 10inch. If you enjoyed  their previous CD for Cold Spring think that this is even better!!! Great! Obscure power ambient waves with a really dreamy approach...

THE FLOOD OF THE WHITE LIGHT 10inch (THE NOISEIST)
After their excellent CD on Cold Spring Aldebaran, this German band comes with an very good  ritual ambient 10inch, still with this shamanic influence but more rhythmed. Offering 2 long evolutive tracks on which the shadow of the Hybryds is hanging over. Inade develops this correspondances between old American wizards and astral perspective of the universe. A darkcosmic ritual from out of space exploring the depths of subcons- cious astral meditation. An oppressive galactic dream.

THE FLOOD OF THE WHITE LIGHT 10inch (S.Knappe, Vital Weekly #104/Netherlands)
The recent release is this limited to 500 copies 10" by Inade, a group from former East Germany who had their debut CD out last year on Cold Spring. On this disk we find 3 tracks of quiet minimal and slowly shifting dark ambient "industrial", consisting mainly of dull sounding drums and long waves of what seems to be a kind of wind instrument, which sounds a little bit like a distorted didgeridoo. We also find little analogue effects between...
I liked the first track on the A-Side mostly, as it has a real hypnotising "beat". Inade sound here much clearer and less droning as on their previous recordings (especially the first two tapes), which I don't see as a flaw. I was reminded on the last Archon Satani 10". For darker hours!

Masters Of The Unknown, The Sonically Obscure…(JC Smith, SPECTRUM –MAGAZINE (September 2000)