By therelease of their fourth album, 1994’s Purgatory Afterglow, Sweden’sprolific Edge of Sanity was cruising — a well-oiled machine with agrowing reputation as one of death metal’s most exciting, daring,and innovative acts. Like their good friends (and naturalinheritors) Opeth, Edge of Sanity’s excellence resides in theirability to juxtapose the most blistering, blast-beat-intensivedeath (bordering on black) metal offensive with melodic passages ofstartling beauty. In fact, Purgatory Afterglow’s epic opener,“Twilight,” with its wild mood swings and abrupt dynamic shifts,may well have served as a matrix for that now-legendary group’simminent debut, which, coincidentally, was engineered by Edge ofSanity’s mastermind, Dan Swano. Swano’s ability to alternateunintelligible death-grunts and deep, clean-singing vocals withconfidence and conviction — set in accordance to the group’smusical backdrop of speedy thrash runs and grinding power riffs,respectively — helps propel the welcome surprises heard on standouttracks like “Of Darksome Origin,” “Silent,” and “Velvet Dreams.”But by this stage in their development, the band was also capableof pulling off straightforward, more easily digestible fare aswell, and three-minute nuggets like “Black Tears” and “Elegy” comeas close as death metal ever did to commercial sensibility. Allthis diversity and open-minded experimentation was, of course, theend result of years of gradual advances (the closing “Song ofSirens” is the album’s only oddity, sounding at times like anEntombed tribute song), and with Purgatory Afterglow, Edge ofSanity seemed to strike upon the perfect, delicate balance ofextremes that would result in what many still consider their careerzenith, 1996’s ambitious, 40-minute song Crimson.

Tracklisting:
1. Twilight
2. Of Farksome Origin
3. Blood Colored
4. Silent
5. Black Tears
6. Elegy
7. Velvet Dreams
8. Enter Chaos
9. The Sinner And The Sadness
10. Song Of Sirens

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Condition cd: nm

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