 He received a favorable response to his first cassette release "Volcano" (1990) on his personal label Etherhaus, which was followed up by a second cassette release "Dusk" in 1991 on Etherhaus.Between 1990 and 1992 Sain also performed intermittently with the band This Ascension, and in 1991 started the band Blade Fetish with Matt Ballesteros of This Ascension and Mark Linder.Sain recalled Trance to the Sun's beginnings in a 1995 interview with Morbid Outlook magazine.