However, unlike any of these sole genres, Crimson is an amalgam of said influences mashed together into a single song, high attention demanding experiment which turned out to be the greatest achievement, or so is said, of the bands career. The album combined the harsh fury of death metal with the melodies of its Gothenburg counterpart and the progressive effect of such bands as their Swedish brethren Opeth. It is true that, in many regards, what Crimson accomplished was nothing short of breathtaking and certainly was untraveled grounds for any band at the time. We’re not here to talk about that though, and I only bring it up to sort of set the stage for where Dan Swano and Edge Of Sanity were at circa 1996, the year they released their “classic” album, the 40 minute Swedish progressive death metal escapade known as Crimson. They composed a one track album when such a thing was relatively unknown and taboo. They play a variation of Swedish death metal virtually unseen before. It’s easy to call Edge Of Sanity a simple death/melodic death metal band previous to this release, stemming from their pure death metal roots with their debut Nothing But Death Remains up to their superb, melodic, and also melancholic Purgatory Afterglow. Edge Of Sanity is one of those bands which everyone who has heard them respects for their willingness to go places not really explored within the bounds of their genre. I’ll cut right to the chase, seeing as there is no point now for a needless intro for a review such as this.
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