EDGE OF SANITY - Infernal 2-CD

Issued in a 2CD jewel case with clear tray and a 32-page booklet with liner notes and rare photos, housed in a O-card.

By this time, the band was split in two. You have your Axelsson tracks (“Helter Skelter” and “The Bleakness Of It All”), your Swanö tracks, and those tracks fucked up because of their divorce. Axelsson’s tracks are rather primitive compared to most of their material at this point, but it’s a downright homage to the band's roots when they played more primal and rapist-like tunes. The vocals are raspier (remember that Axelsson sang for Marduk), there are less catchy hooks, and much less progressive elements.

On the other end of the spectrum, you have Danny-boy who ventured further into what seems like Nightingale territory. “15:36,” “Losing Myself,” and even the Edge Of Sanity / Nightingale cross-class “The Last Song” (all which feature clean vocals) are refreshing in idea and expression, detracting from the rest of the album. “The Last Song,” featuring its atmospheric, humble beginnings of what feels to be Dan’s parting soliloquy, ends with one of the most striking finishes to an album I’ve ever heard. What sounds like a cacophonous collage to the general population stuns my perception as the array of guitar melodies crashing between each other in a mix of artistic splendor reach higher heights than any man could achieve.