The band took their name from a song by Sex Gang Children. Formed in Darmstadt/Germany, they've toured all over Europe, including 5 gigs at the London Marquee Club. They've also played with Crime & The City Solution, The Bevis Frond, Pink Turns Blue, and German Krautrock band Embryo.
Their style is a blend of post punk/gothic rock, progressive elements, ethnic hints, doom passages and psychedelia.
Into The Abyss
Athens, Greece
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1.
Whirl Of The Aeons 00:00
2.
Resignation To The Void 07:16
3.
Crimes In Advance 14:22
4.
The Eternal Heat 18:52
5.
La Soeur d'Icare 26:38
6.
Captivity 30:33
7.
Dragon Snake 37:16
8.
Flight Of Quetzalcoatl 48:21
9.
Carousel 49:38
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In a mystical dance the Cosmic Wheel is evolving weaving shapes and stories on the canvas of Infinity. Within the orb itself the Spirit of the Earth is laid asleep, like a child innocent and pure. Its little lips are moving amid the changing lights of their own smiles, like one who talks of what he loves in dream.
In orbital embrace the Feathered Snake flies. He is the Emblem of Life, the Reminder of the essential interplay of Light and Dark.. He is the Guardian to whom the Lifegiving Sun has entrusted the protection of Earth's Spirit from those who resign and become ghosts captive by fear and guilt for crimes committed in ignorance and apathy.
The ones who haven't lost their memory heed the call for balance and dare to plunge into the Ocean to gain profound knowledge of their souls. They enter through the Basalt Gates into the land where time and space cease to exist and only Beauty reigns. Far away from the furthest land they dance in the Whirl of the Aeons, like the branches of a tree whose roots are deeper than Creation itself. Like hands recounting the stories of Imagination they reach out and caress the Snake seeking and communicating Wisdom and Faith.
For Faith is that which confirms the continuity of past and future, uniting Time. And only in the site of Faith can the Spirit raise the Cities of Eternity.
Katerina Manoussaki, January 1995
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released September 5, 1995
Into The Abyss are:
Janis Kalifatidis: vocals, guitars
Kostas Tzeras: bass
Jens Gellner: drums
featuring:
Helmut Eckstein: violin, soprano sax
Gordon Friedrich: piano on Carousel
Bo: guitar-storm on Quetzalcoatl
All songs written by INTO THE ABYSS.
Lyrics by Janis Kalifatidis.
Recorded and mixed at HAZELWOOD STUDIO between December 1994 and January 1995
Produced by Gordon Friedrich & INTO THE ABYSS
Engineered & assisted by Jan Schönewolf
Quetzalcoatl drawn by Thomas Tschech from the House of The Feathered Snakes in Xochicalco, Mexico, Aztec Period
Cover background image used with kind permission by World Perspectives, USA
