Today in 1994 Edge Of Sanity released the album Purgatory Afterglow Finspång,Sweden Progressive Death Metal Status:Split-up Years active: 1989-1999, 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 in Finspång, Sweden, 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 genres conventions. The Spectral Sorrows, Until Eternity Ends, and Purgatory Afterglow continued the trend, so that by the release of 1996s 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, 1997s Infernal, guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Dan Swanö left the band, and his departure is generally associated with a decline in quality in the bands 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 years Cryptic, the band split up. In 2003, Swanö reconvened the outfit as a one-man band (with several session musicians, however) and recorded a sequel to Crimson, naturally entitled Crimson II. Immediately after, he re-dissolved the project, and it has been silent since. Black Mark Production Dan Swanö – voices, keyboards (1, 5), guitars (lead on tracks 3, 4 and 5; acoustic guitar on track 5; harmony guitars on tracks 6 and 9), intro (4) Anders Lindberg – bass Benny Larsson – drums Andreas Axelsson – guitars (second and fourth guitar leads on track 8; harmony guitar on track 7), backing vocals (2, 7), vocals (10) Sami Nerberg – guitars (first and third guitar leads on track 8), vocals (10) 1. Twilight (7:51) 2. Of Darksome Origin (5:02) 3. Blood-Colored (4:00) 4. Silent (5:05) 5. Black Tears (3:15) 6. Elegy (3:57) 7. Velvet Dreams (7:10) 8. Enter Chaos (2:24) 9. The Sinner and the Sadness (3:06) 10. Song of Sirens (2:33) Produced by Edge Of Sanity Recorded and mixed in Unisound, Sweden in July 1994 Photography: Fiction Photos Layout & typography: The Graphic Beat, Berlin ...to the memory of Kurt Cobain Two version of this CD exist: with mirror like disc and black letters with black disc and gold letters (USA edition distributed by Cargo Records) The Japanese version has two bonus tracks from the Until Eternity Ends MCD: 11) Until Eternity Ends 12) Eternal Eclipse Originally Edge of Sanity wanted to release two separate EPs: Purgatory; the more traditional death metal oriented songs & Afterglow; the experimental/hard rock songs. However Black Mark warned them it would be a huge financial & career risk so the band opted to release all of the material together as a full length. Re-released by Black Mark Production in 2011 on orange vinyl Purgatory Afterglow is the fourth full-length studio album by Swedish death metal band Edge of Sanity. The album was recorded by Dan Swanö in Unisound Studios, Örebro, Sweden, in July 1994 and released in 1994 by Black Mark Productions. Purgatory Afterglow is dedicated to the loving memory of Kurt Cobain. There are two different versions to the disc; the mirror-like disc with black letters and the black disc with gold letters. The Japanese release features the tracks Until Eternity Ends and Eternal Eclipse from the Until Eternity Ends EP. One of the two only Edge of Sanity videos was made for the song Black Tears and it can be viewed here (the other video was done for Uncontrol Me from the Cryptic album). This song was covered by the bands Eternal Tears of Sorrow, on their album Chaotic Beauty, and Heaven Shall Burn, on their album Iconoclast (Part 1: The Final Resistance). youtube/watch?v=Jjqrhz7u6BM
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