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Infernal...my nick is infernum...lol this albums is cool. i like it. The hell is where the heart is have a cool intro and i like this album. it is very nice. hear it guys

Review by: iNfernum

this is not a good album as the rest of the EOS album's. it has a lot of bad song although the song Burn the Sun which is awesome. my advice is first buy the other album of EOS n if u really like them and want to buy not too good album well buy this one.

Review by: quorthon

Edge of Sanity, while being the premiere European death metal band, are quite the enigma. Every album results in a new Pandora's box of ideas, concepts, and sound. Purgatory Afterglow was a fantastic melodic thrash death album (possibly one of the best of all time) while Crimson contained but one drawn out song. So naturally expectations were high for this new release.

But the story behind it must be odd. Dan Swano, the mastermind behind E.O.S.(along with Nightingale, Pan-Thy-Monium & producer of many bands), contributed a lot less than usual. In fact, this almost seems more like a compilation album under the Edge of Sanity flag. Certain songs are performed only by Dan Swano and Benny Larsson, while guitarist Andreas Axelson contributes vocals on other songs. Sami Nerberg (guitar) couldn't even make it to be on the album. And add Swano's cryptic notes in the credits..."it's time to move on"...and you realize this is Swano's swan song with the band, as he did leave a few months later to concentrate on his other projects.

Now to the music: this isn't the most perfect album. The paste & collage making of the album probably made a uniform feel difficult as songs like "Losing Myself" are in a definite Nightingale vein while Andreas Axelson's "Helter Skelter" is more black metal. Fortunately, the album builds as it goes on with "The Last Song" creating a fanstastic mood that does end this saga on a somber, but powerful note.

Review by: Gravedaddy666

This album is in essence a nightingale album dressed up with detuned guitar and death metal vocals. Its not even that good a nightingale album cause the songs sound like rushed ideas and could have been worked on better. However this album does act as the bridge between Dan Swano the band member of Edge of sanity and Dan Swano solo artist and musical extrodinare. He plays almost everything cept drums on this album. Nevermind that there are like three songs from the other half of the band, they are good but have no future nor central theme. This album was Dans frist attempt at being a one man band and while it has flaws I can tell he learned alot cause his solo works get continually better from this point onward. A necessary misstep 3 out of 5

Review by: starchildo

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