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INHALER: Top UK industrial techno-guitar band

Label: Saucer
Member 1: James Barnard - Vocals, Drums, Guitars
Member 2: Gareth Brunsden - Drums
Member 3: Various - Bass
Formation Date: 1995
Description: Industrial Techno-Guitar Pioneers

INHALERhave landed

Here is a very loud aggressive band from the South coast of England.  They compliment their bass, drums and guitar/ vocals line-up with an excessive use of samples and rave orientated drum loops.  They sound like a cross between Big Black, Korn, early Nirvana, Therapy?’s ‘Pleasure Death LP days and The Chemical Brothers. They are the rock scene’s latest hot property.

The Corona of the SunJames Barnard formed Inhaler together with Dave Patrick, the band’s first drummer, some years ago, taking inspiration from the obscure time changes and hefty guitar parts of the Melvins plus up-to-the-minute trance and dance music. He set out to mesh metal with the latest sampled sounds in a new way, eventually leaning more towards the dance side of things than the current industrial scene.

Their hard-core sound is often heavily contrasted with quiet almost ambient tracks like the fourteen and a half minute ‘Hollow Light’ giving them a refreshing new style. "If it wasn’t blatantly obvious from the cover artwork that there was only one band featured on this CD, from the music held within, you could easily be fooled into thinking that there are at least two." James Sherry (Metal Hammer)

Their first demo cassette won them the favour of their record company Seriously Groovy. It begins with a recorded message from the Parents Music Resource Centre, a barmy right wing US pressure group. These people sit around playing rock records backwards, looking for ‘hidden’ satanic messages. Queen’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ backwards is ‘I smoke marijuana’... apparently.

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Real Audio sound clips Discography

"Metal Inferno" CD Mini Album (Seriously Groovy/Saucer)
A tasty little example of some of the more adventurous sides of this acclaimed three piece. Exclusive tracks and mixes that go to make up an exceptionally good mini album …

"Chang" CD Album (Seriously Groovy/Saucer)
A superb follow-up album, this record has taken a giant leap forward. Crashing Big Beat Electronica Industrial that bangs out of your woofers and shunts you about the dance floor like a demented arse. Bold, pioneering and totally teeth shattering. *Voted 27th best album of 1999 by Rock Sound magazine*

"Volume" CD Album (Seriously Groovy/Saucer)
A monster of a debut, Inhaler’s ‘Volume’ is superb …




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