Saosin On Celebrating 20 Years Of The Classic Self-Titled Debut Album

Orange County post-hardcore trailblazers Saosin will return to Australia in April 2026 for a national headline tour, celebrating twenty years of their iconic self-titled album, playing the album in full as well as the hits.

Saosin quickly emerged as a powerful voice in the post-hardcore and alternative rock scenes, gaining immediate underground acclaim from the get-go. Following a shift in vocalists, Cove Reber joined the band and fronted their breakout self-titled album in 2005, which featured genre-defining tracks like Voices and You’re Not Alone. The album’s success propelled Saosin into mainstream recognition, earning them a dedicated global fanbase and cementing their status as one of the most influential bands of their era. Now, twenty years on they’ll perform their self-titled album in full across Australia alongside their biggest hits next April.

Since reuniting with vocalist Cove Reber in 2024, Saosin has reignited the fervent energy that defined their most influential years. With Reber back at the helm, Saosin is redefining their future. The chemistry among the original lineup has sparked creative momentum, leading to new material, revitalised performances, and expanded vision. The band is once again a driving force in post-hardcore, proving that while time may pass, authenticity and connection endure. This chapter in Saosin’s journey is both a homecoming and a launching point for what’s next. Beau Burchell talks to Hi Fi Way about the tour.

Another tour of Australia in almost less than two years is awesome for the fans.
I’m pretty excited about coming back for sure.

Celebrating twenty years of your debut album, where has the time gone?
Oh, yeah, it’s wild man. I don’t know if it’s just my childish personality that I have, but when you think about twenty years and it seems like such a long time, but I don’t feel like it’s been what should feel like twenty years, you know what I mean? It feels like maybe five or ten, it, it feels like a shorter than twenty years. So, it’s hard to believe it’s been twenty years, but yeah, it’s a crazy feeling. We’re so hyped on coming back and obviously Cove is full-time back in the band now. We’re working on a new record right now as well. We’re about six songs into that and it’s pretty cool. It’s actually kind of funny that we’re celebrating this record now because the new record is, from what we’ve heard from the few people we’ve let hear it, is that it’s kind of crazy. It’s almost like if self-titled were to come out in 2026, it’s like right in that lane. We’re all pretty hyped on it.

Does it feel all new again, almost back to when you were starting out with everything slotting into place now?
I don’t know about new, if anything, it feels right. When things are new, especially from the band perspective there’s a lot of maybe relationships you can get into that maybe they feel right at the time, but then you’re like, oh, that was a bad move, or that was the wrong fit or whatever. I think now with all of that knowledge that we’ve had over our twenty year career, I think all the decisions we’re making now just seem right and much more thought out. Even over the last, let’s just say ten years of us not really being very active, starting actually within the last three months, we’ve decided we’re going to take Saosin into a full-time band again. So, we’re going a hundred percent into it, hence the new record and everything being planned out a whole year in advance. We’ve got a pretty busy schedule to the end of 2026. Then at that point, I think we’re probably going to start working on another record after that.

With the transition back to being a full-time band did that feel seamless and has worked out better than you thought?
Yeah, I remember being in a hotel room talking with Cove, and he was just like, man, I want to sing with the boys again. You know? Then we were like, great. We had a show in our hometown where half the set was with Cove, and half the set was with Anthony. That was like us seeing how we all felt together on stage. I don’t think he knew it at the time, but we were feeling it all out. I think from the first couple seconds of us playing, we all looked at each other and it feels so good to play these songs again. Since then the vibe has just been so great on the road. We were just in Europe with The Plot In You, and towards the end of the tour we were jokingly saying we could do this for another four weeks, no problem.

Does it feel like there is a sense of newfound appreciation now of the band that comes with experience, maturing and getting older? Maybe more so now than at any other point along the journey.
Yeah, I mean, it’s crazy, especially seeing people coming to the shows now. You think back to when a song like You’re Not Alone came out twenty years ago, and in those early years, around 2007 to 2009, we’d have people come up to us saying that song genuinely saved their life. At the time, hearing stories like that was overwhelming, almost hard to process that something we wrote could have that kind of impact. Now, two decades later, we’re talking to some of those same people who are thriving, who still credit that song for helping them through a dark moment. Seeing that long-term connection, that shared history built around these songs, is really special. And it’s wild watching fans grow up, people who first saw us as teenagers now bringing their kids, nieces, nephews. The music is finding a new generation, and that’s incredibly exciting for us.

It must be humbling to have that impact with your music?
Yeah, it’s pretty insane.

When you reflect on twenty years of Saosin’s self-titled album what does that mean to you?
Man, that’s an interesting question, because I don’t want to say I’m not that deep, I am, but at the end of the day, it’s a collection of songs we wrote at the time. There’s no way any of us could’ve known what it would become. When I’m writing, even now, there are moments when a riff comes out and you just know it’s sick. I definitely felt that with most of the songs on that record, and I really believed in it. But I don’t think I ever stopped to consider whether it would still be appreciated twenty years later.
Especially because in your early twenties, none of us, or at least not me, were mature enough to think about what we’d be like ten, fifteen, or even twenty years down the line. Back then I was just thinking, man, what’s it going to be like in six months when this record finally comes out? It’s wild to think this record has been out there for twenty years. If anything, it’s inspiring and challenging us as we work on the new album, pushing us to see if we can top it or at least hold ourselves to that same standard.

Are you looking to play this album in full on tour in Australia?
If it were up to me, and the funny thing about being in a band is that it’s always a democracy, I’d play for two hours every night. I’d go until people started walking out saying they couldn’t stand anymore. But yeah, I think the plan is to play the album. If we’re saying we’re celebrating twenty years of the self‑titled, then we’re doing the record. Last time we were there, we were supposed to play songs from it and we didn’t, and I need to play those songs this time.

How do you find playing it start to end? Are there any songs there that really test and challenge you?
I’d say there are certain songs where, when you talk about “challenge,” my first thought is the technical side, whether they’re hard to play. And on that record, with where I’m at as a guitar player now, nothing is particularly challenging compared to some of the new riffs we’ve been working on. So, it’s not technically difficult, but there are songs in the set, like Finding Home, which I think is a great song, that aren’t big crowd‑energy moments. The challenge there is more mental: knowing the crowd might not be moshing, but also knowing they’re still enjoying it. It’s that kind of challenge rather than a technical one.

Can you much about the new songs. Are they much of a departure from what we already know and love about Saosin?
Man, it’s basically like this: if you imagined what the self‑titled record would sound like if it were released in 2026, that’s exactly the vibe. There are tons of really cool riffs. There are songs where you’d hear a part and think, “Oh, that’s totally a Phil riff,” but it’s actually something I wrote, and then other songs that sound classic self‑titled and those riffs are Phil’s. Our chemistry right now is just next level. With him being so insanely good at guitar, it pushes me to step up, and in turn that pushes him. We’re all challenging each other in a big way on this record.If anything, the hardest part for me is going to be playing some of these riffs and doing a lot of the backup vocals live. That’s definitely going to be the real challenge.

Interview By Rob Lyon

Catch Saosin on tour with Senses Fail on the following dates, tickets from Destroy All Lines…