Sarin - You Can't Go Back (2021)

Sarin, the Canadian post-metal band has a portfolio of heavy music counting three LPs now, thanks to the release of You Can't Go Back, an album pretty special for their discography. But more importantly an impressive dose of loud and massive music.

As the description or perhaps a legend already states, the band locked themselves in a studio for a week back in December in order to "create and capture something more energetic than their austere back catalogue". I don't know their previous releases but I trust this words as the pace of the album is particularly impressive. Try to keep up with When You Melt, it's almost impossible with the guitars and drums galloping on their way to the surprisingly moody ambient bridge and the unsurprisingly energetic finale. The post-metal elements here are mostly about the quality of the guitars but there's also the vocals, aggressive and ominously lurking from a distance, as if hidden under the massiveness of the music.

The band also underwent line-up changes and this is reflected in the emotional layer of the album, described as "an urgent and emotionally charged missive designed to document and celebrate a period of pressing uncertainty". This is probably best felt in the pinnacle of the album, Thick Mire with its absurdly fast and industrially-infused composition that just swipes you off the surface of the world.

You Can't Go Back costs 10 USD.

Check: Thick Mire

Country: Canada

Genre: energetic post-metal

Label: Prosthetic Records

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