SIN

Corruption. The descent begins.

Release Date: 07.07.2025

Sin is the twelfth canonical RANGES album and the first work to emerge after the axis of 33. Where 33 held chaos and order in equilibrium, Sin breaks that balance. The spiral that tightened at the center begins to unwind.

If Cardinal Winds offered orientation, Sin explores what happens when that orientation is abandoned.

The album draws heavily from Dante Alighieri’s Inferno, though not as retelling but as structure. Seven principal compositions correspond to the Seven Deadly Sins. The songs do not name them directly and they offer no redemption. Instead they present descent as consequence. Misaligned will. Appetite unrestrained. A slow erosion of the internal compass.

The album opens with The Falcon Cannot Hear the Falconer, a reference to W.B. Yeats’ The Second Coming. The line signals the break between guidance and action, between conscience and behavior. What follows is not spectacle but disintegration. Isolation replaces connection. Distortion replaces clarity. The descent is inward.

The visual language of Sin reinforces this architecture. A stark trinity of red, black, and white dominates the design. Red signifies damnation. Black marks the void. White suggests judgment rather than salvation. Together they frame the album’s moral terrain: collapse, emptiness, and cold reckoning.

The front cover features The Falsifiers from Gustave Doré’s engravings for Inferno. Dante and Virgil stand above the tortured landscape of the damned while the Leviathan Cross sits at the center of the composition. Historically associated with sulfur in alchemical tradition, the symbol later became a sign of rebellion against moral law. Here it marks the inversion of order.

The reverse side continues the descent. Another Doré engraving depicts a spiraling vortex, drawing the eye downward as the tracklist settles into its frame. Each title is accompanied by esoteric glyphs drawn from the gatefold of The Confusion of Tongues. Planetary and elemental symbols suggesting deeper correspondences beneath the surface.

Inside the gatefold, the descent is mapped completely. A reimagined cosmology of Hell unfolds across the panorama, echoing Dante’s nine circles. The album itself occupies a circle within this structure, its compositions branded with demonic sigils aligned with the sins they embody.

Within The Arcana, Sin occupies Column Five of Octave Two, the position of temptation and trial. In The Lexicon, this position corresponds to The Circle. The Circle marks enclosure, testing, and the arena in which conviction is proven. Earlier in the system, If I Were The Devil warned of corruption through persuasion. Sin reveals the consequences once that persuasion succeeds.

Within The Mirror, Sin is paired with Cardinal Winds. Where Cardinal Winds establishes direction through the virtues, Sin charts the collapse that follows when those bearings are ignored.

The compass was given.

The descent is chosen.

Seven Deadly Sins. Seven Vinyl Variants.

Acedia Edition / Avaritia Edition / Gula Edition / Invidia Edition / Ira Edition / Luxuria Edition / Superbia Edition

The standard edition of Sin was pressed on seven vinyl variants each carefully chosen to reflect the thematic tones of the record. While the album descends through a spiritual and emotional hell, these variants serve as tactile, visual reflections of that experience. Nothing here is arbitrary. Color, texture, and contrast were selected to embody the psychological palette of Sin.

Each variant corresponds to one of the Seven Deadly Sins. Not just in name, but in form. The records themselves become representations of the very vices the album explores. These are not just objects they are manifestations of gluttony, greed, wrath, sloth, pride, lust, and envy.

Each edition was pressed on 180g vinyl and was limited to 150 copies through A Thousand Arms Music and dunk!records.

All seven variants were available individually or as a boxset limited to 7 total copies through A Thousand Arms Music. The boxset included a hand-printed white box featuring the RANGES logo on the front.

“Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here”

In parallel with the release of Sin, a new set of apparel was created. Each piece serving as an extension of the record’s visual and thematic world. These garments weren’t designed as casual merchandise, but as wearable fragments of the descent.

The black-on-black logo hoodie features the RANGES logo printed with black water based ink on a pigment black pullover hoodie.

The Destruction of Leviathan shirt draws from the work of Gustave Doré, depicting the apocalyptic scene of divine vengeance. It reflects the chaos beneath Sin, where order is enforced by violence, not peace.

The If I Were The Devil shirt resurrects a familiar design, now reframed through the darker lens of Sin. A serpent coils its way down the body of the shirt, echoing themes of deceit, seduction, and descent.

Lastly, The Falconer shirt was created in tandem with the first single from the record, capturing a moment of severance.

Each design stands on its own, yet together they form a wearable language. A shadowed reflection of the record’s core.

SIN DELUXE EDITION

Seven 7” Records. Black on Black Artwork. Limited to 37 Copies.

The Deluxe Edition of Sin was conceived not as an expanded version of the album but as a physical artifact designed to embody the gravity of the subject itself. Every decision in its construction, from the stark black palette to the symbolic objects contained within the box, was deliberate. Nothing within the set exists as decoration. To open the box is to engage the work. Nothing is revealed until it is faced.

At its center are seven individual 7” records, each representing one of the Seven Deadly Sins. Each A-side contains one of the core compositions from Sin, while each B-side presents a vinyl-exclusive piece created specifically for the format. These recordings do not appear on any digital version of the album. Each B-side is paired with spoken voiceover passages that echo the approach first explored in If I Were The Devil, where archival speech and sermon fragments were layered over instrumental works to deepen the thematic narrative. The engravings etched into the vinyl surface identify the virtue paired with each sin, forming a quiet dialogue between opposition and consequence.

The sleeves themselves are constructed as part of the descent. Each 7” jacket is hand screen-printed in black ink on white sleeves, featuring adapted engravings by Gustave Doré drawn from his illustrations of Dante’s Inferno. Each image was selected and reworked to correspond to the emotional character of its respective sin. Inside, the records are housed in black on black inner sleeves, also printed by hand. The format mirrors the structure of the Inferno itself. One circle at a time. One descent after another.

Accompanying the vinyl set is a deck of poker cards, printed black on black and illustrated in a style reminiscent of Doré’s engravings. Alongside them sits a pair of custom matte black six sided dice, their black pips barely visible against the surface, with the RANGES emblem replacing the six. Chance, temptation, and consequence remain central to the symbolism of the set.

The edition also includes a hand rolled cigar composed of Nicaraguan Jalapa tobacco aged three years, bound with a band bearing the RANGES logo. Its flavor carries notes of earth, cashew, and subtle sweetness. The cigar is not presented as indulgence alone but as an object of transience. Designed to burn. Designed to vanish. Paired with a box of black tipped cigar matches, the act becomes ritual: ignition, consumption, ash.

A smoked glass shooter is included as both ceremonial vessel and artifact, its darkened surface echoing the visual language of the set.

The clothing element of the edition appears as a graphite long sleeve shirt, hand printed with Gustave Doré’s The Falsifiers. Down the right sleeve run seven planetary symbols, each corresponding to a Deadly Sin and its associated track. The RANGES emblem appears at the left cuff.

Completing the set is a 24 x 12 inch hand printed poster, featuring the standard edition gatefold artwork rendered in black ink on black paper, continuing the edition’s monochromatic language.

The Sin Deluxe Edition does not glorify the subject it depicts. It offers no absolution and proposes no solution. It is constructed instead as a confrontation with the weight of the concept itself.

Seven circles.
Seven records.
One descent at a time.

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