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Edge of Sanity
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(1989 – 2003)
Edge of Sanity was a Swedish progressive death metal band whose work often delved into experimental territory. While artists like Bathory and Emperor had recorded songs that could be regarded as epic, Edge of Sanity are regarded alongside Opeth as being the first to fuse extreme metal styles like death and black metal with genuine progressive rock, having formed in 1989.
Edge of Sanity asserted themselves as a solid death-metal outfit with their debut release Nothing But Death Remains, but their second release Unorthodox, with tracks like “Enigma” and “When All Is Said,” showed them branching out from some of the genre’s conventions. The Spectral Sorrows, Until Eternity Ends, and Purgatory Afterglow continued the trend, so that by the release of 1996’s Crimson they were recording full-on progressive metal. Crimson was a 40-minute concept album consisting entirely of one track, concerning a post-apocalyptic future in which mankind had lost the ability to breed. After one more album, 1997’s Infernal, guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Dan Swanö left the band, and his departure is generally associated with a decline in quality in the band’s material. Swanö was replaced by Robban Karlsson, the vocalist of Pan-thy-monium (a side project in which Swanö was also involved), but after one more album, the same year’s Cryptic, the band split up.
Edge of Sanity asserted themselves as a solid death-metal outfit with their debut release Nothing But Death Remains, but their second release Unorthodox, with tracks like “Enigma” and “When All Is Said,” showed them branching out from some of the genre’s conventions. The Spectral Sorrows, Until Eternity Ends, and Purgatory Afterglow continued the trend, so that by the release of 1996’s Crimson they were recording full-on progressive metal. Crimson was a 40-minute concept album consisting entirely of one track, concerning a post-apocalyptic future in which mankind had lost the ability to breed. After one more album, 1997’s Infernal, guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Dan Swanö left the band, and his departure is generally associated with a decline in quality in the band’s material. Swanö was replaced by Robban Karlsson, the vocalist of Pan-thy-monium (a side project in which Swanö was also involved), but after one more album, the same year’s Cryptic, the band split up.
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Crimson II
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Purgatory Afterglow
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Crimson
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The Spectral Sorrows
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icarus8989 wrote:
purgatory afterglow has songs that get stuck in my head all the time[2]
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Necrokiller wrote:
It's a shame they are no longer producing records :-(
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Chifra wrote:
It's a shame that they only have 30.000 listeners
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next__ wrote:
purgatory afterglow has songs that get stuck in my head all the time, I can't even remember where they come from, I end up playing them out randomly while I improvise and I always fail to remember the name of this record
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Cloudy-Now wrote:
nice band.
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assMEN wrote:
suddenly: everyone gets trolled
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dishayu wrote:
You have clearly not heard either one of those to be making that comment.
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woahbro wrote:
whatever you say, bro
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L1ama wrote:
Yes, in every way except for the music.
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woahbro wrote:
Who's trolling? It sounds like fucking Nickelback.
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L1ama wrote:
you're not very good at this whole trolling thing are you
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woahbro wrote:
15:36 sounds like Nicelback trying to be metal.
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Jetfuel495 wrote:
I agree with Vash. 15:36 was genius.
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Vazduh wrote:
Try this: http://www.myspace.com/morgueson ... + Free download of Full Lenght Album...
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Vash619 wrote:
Top charts need more 15:36
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jusperknusper wrote:
a real pity they are split-up...
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Powerslide14 wrote:
Crimson & Crimson II are stellar.
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dishayu wrote:
Haha, Edge of sanity have so many awesome tracks, it's actually a tough call to make a top ten anyways :)
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Necrokiller wrote:
@dishayu: I agree with you, 15:36 is a superb song, though it is not amongst my top ten. Sorry ;-)
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DEATHINFIREX wrote:
@dishayu: Yeah I meant exactly that and he uses them in the end of "Passage of Time" too I think (though I could be mistaken, I have the album as one song only). But actually no, from his stuff I've onli listened to EoS and his solo stuff. I'll check those out sometime :>
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