Swedish death metal band led by Dan Swanö, noted for blending death metal with progressive, gothic and doom elements and for the landmark album Crimson (a single ~40-minute suite).

Dan Swanö was the band's central figure; reviews note a growing divergence between Swanö (progressive direction) and other members (harder direction). Swanö worked as a producer for bands such as Opeth and Katatonia (mentioned in reviews). Swanö revived the Edge of Sanity name for Crimson II (2003).

DeBaser reviews portray Edge of Sanity as a Swedish death metal band led by Dan Swanö that evolved toward progressive, gothic and doom influences. Key albums repeatedly praised are Crimson (single 40-minute suite), Purgatory Afterglow and The Spectral Sorrows. Reviews note internal divergence between Swanö and other members and Swanö's wider production work.

For:Fans of death metal, progressive-metal listeners, metal historians and curious newcomers

 Introduced by what might be the best death metal album cover ever created, a work by the master Dan Seagrave, "The Spectral Sorrows" is the turning-point album for Edge of Sanity.

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 Dan Swanö is (or was) a fundamental figure within the Swedish death metal scene of the 1990s:

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 From the first notes of the intro "The Unorthodox", it becomes immediately apparent that something has changed compared to the past, and any doubt vanishes when the monumental "Enigma" begins, itself divided into the three parts "The Blessing", "Celestial Dissension", and "The Loss of Hallowed Life", a small "Crimson" in miniature where for seven minutes the full personality of the group emerges, which has finally found its own personal style while remaining faithful to the buzzing guitars and infernal rhythms that have made Swedish death metal successful.

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