You Can't Go Back

by Sarin

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Michael Kaczmer Do you like ISIS? Miss em? Then get this! Once you get past the obvious ISIS worship on display here, you get a pretty solid post-metal album. Highly recommended. Favorite track: Thick Mire.

evilcore2 This is one of the best release so far of 2021. It remind me of old ISIS, but it's original and explores new grounds... and I like it!

Christian M. I heard one track off of this album and preordered a CD immediately. Do yourself a favor and do the same.
Favorite track: Reckoner.

Tim Burke Hard to pick a favorite on this diverse album full of dynamics and emotion. The heavy riffs do not disappoint either. There are certainly hints of Aaron Turner's Sumac and ISIS work, but this is by no means a bad thing. There are some fierce and mellow moments on a dynamic record that breaks the cookie cutter mold of a lot of modern metal. With Can't Go Back, Sarin is ready for a larger stage. Favorite track: Reckoner.

David McLane this is a serious album
I dug sarin before this release
but now..
every song has it's own inertia, it's own gravitational pull
is this an album or a musical nebula?

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1.	Cold Open 04:09	buy track
2.	When You Melt 08:06	buy track
3.	Reckoner 05:05 video	buy track
4.	Thick Mire 05:35 video	buy track
5.	Otherness 03:27	buy track
6.	Leave Your Body 06:21	buy track

about

One glacial December, Sarin spent a week recording, eating and sleeping at the Sugar Shack Studio in London, ON. With the help of owner and engineer Simon Larochette (Chastity, Familiars), they endeavoured to create and capture something more energetic than their austere back catalogue.

Piles of vintage amps were strung together and dubbed 'tone mountain', drum sets were tested and Frankenstein'd until each kick shook the walls, basses were reset for chest-blasting low end, and effect pedals were taken apart and re-wired for searing distortion. Necks were sprained, feedback was gained, eardrums literally burst.

It wasn't just a time of sonic transformation, either. Two of five members had left, and those who remained found themselves facing several personal crossroads at the time of recording; watching the doors close on people and parts of their lives that'd once been so important. The result is ‘You Can’t Go Back’: An urgent and emotionally charged missive designed to document and celebrate a period of pressing uncertainty.

Written in the wake of several crumbling relationships, the record centers on the conscious effort towards change; recognizing behaviours and circumstances that make joy scarce, and working to limit their hold on life. The album’s lyrical themes are present in the tonally dense and memorable song structures that build tension throughout, creating an energised and uplifting feeling atypical for the genre.

Although “You Can’t Go Back” is imbued with enough silver linings to make the album an inspirational listen, the process of change - and all its agonising facets - is never far from view.

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released February 5, 2021

Recorded, engineered and mixed by Simon Larochette at Sugar Shack Studios in London, ON.

Mastered by James Plotkin at Plotkinworks in Bethlehem, PA.

Artwork by Eliza Xenophon, with design and layout by Jess Keefer. Album photography by Kirsten Sonntag.

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Crunchy, emotive metal from Toronto, ON.

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