no turning back is an european hardcore institution. they formed somewhere around 1997. after a few 7"es they released their first full length 'revenge is a right' in 2003, and since then they are a force to be reckoned with in the euro scene. they were and still are deeply rooted within the d.i.y. mentality. therefore and to quote themselves, they decided to take control with their own label, conveniently called 'take control records'. their latest album from 2012 'no regrets' was released via this label and they started to re-issue their own back-catalogue on vinyl.
i already posted about the first re-press of the 2008 record 'stronger' and this time it's about the 2004 piece 'damage done'. i personally consider this album their masterstroke. 2004 was an important year me when it's about influential hardcore releases. told the story many times. stuff like heaven shall burn's 'antigone', destiny's 'the tracy chapter' or cataract's 'with triumph comes loss' had been huge records to me and paved the way for further musical discoveries.
as 'damage done' was also produced by denmark's master mind tue madsen (who worked also on the aforementioned records), i knew some songs of this album but never really came around to pick up a cd copy. so no turning back's second record never had such an impact on me as other releases of 2004 but as i poked around on the net and came across this recent re-press, i simply couldn't resist. i downloaded the whole album and after a few clicks more, i ordered a lovely green copy of 'damage done'.
the order process was again not without delays. after i waited for three weeks or something, i asked where my stuff was at. i got no reply but after two days it landed on my front door. whatever, what counts is this nice piece of vinyl. take control rec. pressed three colours of vinyl. yellow limited to 200, brown also limited to 200 and green limited to 100 copies. this version comes with a cmy sleeve. frankly i have no idea what this is. the picture in the store shows that it's a bit paler then the regular sleeves, but that's all i see. anybody knows the secret to cmy sleeves? take control records. 2014.
