INANNA

Tech/Extreme Prog Metal • Chile

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Established in 2000, Inanna are a Chilean progressive death metal band based in Santiago. The quartet's moniker is a reference to the Mesopotamian goddess of war and desire by way of the Necronomicon, and indeed the influence of H.P. Lovecraft looms large over Inanna's lyrical themes of horror and madness, performed entirely in English. Inanna began as the project of guitarist Diego Ilabaca, who envisioned a style of death metal combining the approach of his favourite albums - Morbid Angel's Altars of Madness and Sepultura's Morbid Visions - with an ambitious songwriting sprawl inspired by 1970s progressive rock.

With the recruitment of fellow guitarist Rodrigo Krell, bassist/vocalist Max Neira and drummer Felipe Zar�, Inanna made their debut with a two-song demo in 2001, demonstrating a melodic and technical death metal under the influence of genre stalwarts Suffocation, Immolation, Deicide and (early) Gorguts along with their more progressive brethren Death, Atheist, Cynic and Pestilence. Krell departed in 2003, replaced the same year by multi-instrumentalist Carlos Fuentes, and the now-stable lineup went on to record the 2005 demo Ascend from the Underworld, followed by their first album, 2008's Converging Ages, the latter released on Corvus Discos and produced by Claudio Salinas of fellow death metal group Trimegisto.

The ever-evolving Inanna continued to refine their brand of cosmic prog-metal on 2012's Transfigured in a Thousand Delusions LP, released via Australis Records and self-produced by Fuentes at his Sonido Origen studio. Inanna subsequently issued the Unearthed Arcana demo collection and the Ancient Horror Unleashed live album in 2016, with Zar� leaving the band in early 2017. After Inanna conducted a series of auditions but were unsatisfied with Zar�'s potential replacements, Fuentes switched from guitar to drum duties in 2018, with the band temporarily carrying on as a trio. Guitarist Crist�bal Gonz�lez of Trimegisto joined Inanna in 2019, and the revitalised quartet signed to Memento Mori later that year.

2020 saw Inanna release their second live album, Live Antiquity, as well as reissue Converging Ages through Desert Wastelands Productions, remixed and remastered by Fuentes. Delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic and again self-produced, Inanna's third and heaviest LP, Void of Unending Depths, arrived in 2022, taking their adventurous death metal to even greater heights, incorporating more dissonance and black metal into t...Established in 2000, Inanna are a Chilean progressive death metal band based in Santiago. The quartet's moniker is a reference to the Mesopotamian goddess of war and desire by way of the Necronomicon, and indeed the influence of H.P. Lovecraft looms large over Inanna's lyrical themes of horror and madness, performed entirely in English. Inanna began as the project of guitarist Diego Ilabaca, who envisioned a style of death metal combining the approach of his favourite albums - Morbid Angel's Altars of Madness and Sepultura's Morbid Visions - with an ambitious songwriting sprawl inspired by 1970s progressive rock.

With the recruitment of fellow guitarist Rodrigo Krell, bassist/vocalist Max Neira and drummer Felipe Zar�, Inanna made their debut with a two-song demo in 2001, demonstrating a melodic and technical death metal under the influence of genre stalwarts Suffocation, Immolation, Deicide and (early) Gorguts along with their more progressive brethren Death, Atheist, Cynic and Pestilence. Krell departed in 2003, replaced the same year by multi-instrumentalist Carlos Fuentes, and the now-stable lineup went on to record the 2005 demo Ascend from the Underworld, followed by their first album, 2008's Converging Ages, the latter released on Corvus Discos and produced by Claudio Salinas of fellow death metal group Trimegisto.

The ever-evolving Inanna continued to refine their brand of cosmic prog-metal on 2012's Transfigured in a Thousand Delusions LP, released via Australis Records and self-produced by Fuentes at his Sonido Origen studio. Inanna subsequently issued the Unearthed Arcana demo collection and the Ancient Horror Unleashed live album in 2016, with Zar� leaving the band in early 2017. After Inanna conducted a series of auditions but were unsatisfied with Zar�'s potential replacements, Fuentes switched from guitar to drum duties in 2018, with the band temporarily carrying on as a trio. Guitarist Crist�bal Gonz�lez of Trimegisto joined Inanna in 2019, and the revitalised quartet signed to Memento Mori later that year.

2020 saw Inanna release their second live album, Live Antiquity, as well as reissue Converging Ages through Desert Wastelands Productions, remixed and remastered by Fuentes. Delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic and again self-produced, Inanna's third and heaviest LP, Void of Unending Depths, arrived in 2022, taking their adventurous death metal to even greater heights, incorporating more dissonance and black metal into their sonic template.

Inanna are stylistically similar to StarGazer, VoidCeremony, Blood Incantation, Vertebra Atlantis, �nigmatum and the Chasm.

- Gordy, January 2024read more