Edge of Sanity - Infernal (Re-issue) [2CD]

Format: 2 x CD
Catalogue No.: 19802832372
Barcode: 198028323727
Release Date: 06 Dec 2024
Genre: Metal

EDGE OF SANITY – BEYOND THE UNKNOWN Edge of Sanity were not alone in their extreme metal ascent but were unique. A few Swedish bands have accomplished more conceptually and musically throughout the group's journey from eager teenagers in the late eighties to Edge of Sanity's final throes in 2003. While what they did at the time caused alarm, in hindsight, it all makes sense. The first death metal "ballad" can be found in "When All Is Said". The clean vocal in "Enigma" was uncommon and possibly too forward-thinking in 1992. Fresh out of early retirement, Edge of Sanity imposed not only a gothic rock song ("Sacrificed") but also a Manowar cover ("Blood of My Enemies") when experimentation was not de rigueur. Coloring outside of well-established lines was career suicide in then-myopic death metal. Yet, Edge of Sanity did it time and again. They dared to make a single-song album on Crimson, a 40-minute adventure out of step with industry norms. And when it was all said and done, they vanished into thin air (as they had a few times before) in 2003: fourteen years and eight albums, a strident strike against convention yet a veritable spearhead of what was to come. 

Tracklisting
Disc: 1
1. Hell is Where the Heart is (Remaster 2024)
2. Helter Skelter (Remaster 2024)
3. 15:36 (Remaster 2024)
4. The Bleakness of It All (Remaster 2024)
5. Damned (By the Damned) (Remaster 2024)
6. Forever Together Forever (Remaster 2024)
7. Losing Myself (Remaster 2024)
8. Hollow (Remaster 2024)
9. Inferno (Remaster 2024)
10. Burn the Sun (Remaster 2024)
11. The Last Song (Remaster 2024)    Disc: 2
1. Hell is Where the Heart is (Demo 1996)
2. 15:36 (Demo 1996)
3. Losing Myself (Demo 1996)
4. Forever Together Forever (Demo 1996)
5. Moonshine (Remaster 2024)
6. Human Aberration (Live in Esbjerg 1991)
7. Tales... (Live in Esbjerg 1991)
8. Angel of Distress (Live in Esbjerg 1991)
9. The Dead (Live in Esbjerg 1991)
10. Everlasting (Live in Esbjerg 1991)
11. Impulsive Necroplasma (Live in Esbjerg 1991)
12. A Curfew for the Damned (Live in Esbjerg 1991)
13. Decepted by the Cross (Live in Esbjerg 1991)
14. Immortal Souls (Live in Esbjerg 1991)