Inanna was the Sumerian goddess of sexual love, fertility, and warfare. She was known also as Ishtar, as Babylonians called her. Musically Inanna is the solo project of Mikael Stavöstrand which he formed after the split of Archon Satani (which was formed by him and by Tomas Pettersson, later known for Ordo Equilibrio/Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio and now kept alive by him along with Inanna). DAY OV TORMENT was the first CD album for Inanna and back then it has been released by Staalplaat in 1992. This new Cold Spring edition brings back to the attention of the lovers of industrial dark ambient an important album which then was a sort of sum of the industrial music of the 80's revised with the sounds characteristic of the early Cold Meat Industry bands. At a first listening you realize that the sound is ten years old, because that way of dealing with samplers and industrial rhythms was a factory seal of a certain kind of sound but just after the moment you know it, you forget about it because Inanna is capable of carrying you through an abyss made of lust and pain, just as the goddess of love and war represented by that name. "Her essence" remembered me an industrial version of early Coil (of the "Scatology" period) while other tracks like "Zonei" or "Ancient flesh" didn't recalled me any particular band of the past, while I can hear them as precursor of a certain kind of sound, father of a lot of nowadays bands. Sounding now percussive (where drums like thunders are joined by orchestral loops and other noises) and now dark ambient (where choirs, feedbacks and synth pads form a hellish scenario) Inanna is a sonic adventure that you'll want to experience and now thanks to Cold Spring you'll certainly do.