Legendary Swedish Death Metallers EDGE OF SANITY, who were fronted by vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and acclaimed metal producer Dan Swanö (Opeth, Katatonia, Dissection, etc.), are pleased to announce the third chapter of their catalogue album re-issues via Century Media Records.
Long out of print and re-mastered by Swanö himself with additional bonus material, it’s time to re-issue the two outstanding “Crimson” one-song concept albums as follows:
EDGE OF SANITY – “Crimson (Re-issue)”
Out: June 6th, 2025
Ltd. Deluxe 2CD Jewelcase in O-Card (Incl. Remix on bonus disc)
Black LP (180g vinyl, unlimited)
Ltd. transp. red LP (180g vinyl, limited to 500x copies, available from http://www.cmdistro.de & various other retailers)
Ltd. transp. petrol green LP (180g vinyl, limited to 300x copies, available from http://www.cmdistro.de & various other retailers)
Digital Album / Remaster 2025
Digital Album / Remix 2025.
Note: The pioneering, genre-breaking, one-song concept album from 1996, featuring a notable guest-appearance by Opeth mastermind Mikael Åkerfeldt on additional vocals.
EDGE OF SANITY – “Crimson II (Re-issue)”
Out: August 8th, 2025
Ltd. Deluxe 2CD Jewelcase in O-Card (Incl. Remix on bonus disc)
Black LP (180g vinyl, unlimited)
Ltd. transp. orange LP (180g vinyl, limited to 500x copies, available from http://www.cmdistro.de & various other retailers)
Ltd. brick red LP (180g vinyl, limited to 300x copies, available from http://www.cmdistro.de & various other retailers)
Digital Album / Remaster 2025
Digital Album / Remix 2025
Note: The sophomore one-song concept album from 2003, “Crimson II”, a follow-up solo effort by Dan Swanö to 1996’s “Crimson” release as well as the 8th and final release under the EDGE OF SANITY name.
In order to further promote the upcoming “Second Chapter” of the comprehensive catalog re-issue campaign for legendary and groundbreaking Death Metallers EDGE OF SANITY, who were fronted by Swedish vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and acclaimed metal producer Dan Swanö (OPETH, KATATONIA, DISSECTION, etc.), the newly remastered and remixed versions of the track “Jesus Cries” off the ground-breaking 1993 album The Spectral Sorrows have been released today.
To get an idea of what awaits you on these definitive re-issue of The Spectral Sorrows, you can now check out the two versions of “Jesus Cries” on all digital platforms or via visualizers created by Costin Chioreanu / Twighlight13Media:
“Jesus Cries (Remaster 2024)”:
“Jesus Cries (Remix 2024)”:
Following the “First Chapter” of re-issues from June/August, which saw Century Media Records re-issue EDGE OF SANITY’s Purgatory Afterglow, Until Eternity Ends – EP and Nothing But Death Remains as well as InsideOutMusic re-issue NIGHTINGALE’s Nightfall Overture and I titles, the upcoming “Second Chapter” will cover the following all-remastered releases and formats in December 2024 and February 2025:
EDGE OF SANITY – The Spectral Sorrows (Re-issue): Out December 6th, 2024 (CMR) – Ltd. Deluxe 2CD Jewelcase in O-Card (Incl. 13-track bonus disc) – Black LP (180g vinyl, unlimited) – Ltd. transp. petrol green LP (180g vinyl, limited to 500x copies, available from www.cmdistro.de & various other retailers) – Ltd. clear LP (180g vinyl, limited to 300x copies, available from www.cmdistro.de) – Digital Album / Remaster 2024 – Digital Album / Remix 2024 Note: The genre-breaking, career-defining third album from 1993.
EDGE OF SANITY – Elegy – Chapter I (Demos Comp.): Out February 28th, 2025 (CMR) – Ltd. Deluxe 2CD Jewelcase in O-Card (Feat. 23 demo tracks and 13-track remix bonus disc) – Gatefold black 2LP (180g vinyl, unlimited) – Ltd. Gatefold transp. coke bottle green 2LP (180g vinyl, limited to 500x copies, available from www.cmdistro.de & various other retailers) – Digital Album / Remaster 2024 (23 tracks) – Digital Album / Remix 2024 (13 tracks) Note: A first-ever collection of the earliest five demo (promo, rehearsal or studio) recording sessions from 1989-1991, prior to the band’s debut album release. Featuring brand-new artwork by Mark Rudolph (CARCASS, UNDEATH), this is underground old school Swedish death metal at its best.
NIGHTINGALE – Invisible (Re-issue) Out December 6th, 2024 (IOM) – Ltd. Deluxe 2CD Jewelcase in O-Card (Incl. 8 additional songs and 18-track bonus disc) – Black LP (180g, unlimited) – Ltd. transp. blue LP (180g vinyl, limited to 300x copies, available from www.insideoutshop.de & various other retailers) – Digital Album / Remaster 2024 Note: The acclaimed fifth album from 2004, available on vinyl for the first time ever for its 20th Anniversary.
NIGHTINGALE – Alive Again (Re-issue) Out February 28th, 2025 (IOM) – Ltd. Deluxe 2CD Jewelcase in O-Card (Incl. 4 additional songs and 16-track bonus disc) – Black LP (180g, unlimited) – Ltd. white LP (180g vinyl, limited to 300x copies, available from www.insideoutshop.de & various other retailers) – Digital Album / Remaster 2024 Note: The celebrated 4th album from 2003, available on vinyl for the first time ever.
In related news, Century Media Records will also be making Dan Swanö’s ODYSSEY and TOTAL TERROR projects available again. TOTAL TERROR, which featured up to 3 members of EDGE OF SANITY, stood for extremely brutal crust-core/grind with Swedish lyrics throughout its 20-track self-titled album from 1994 and the material now comes remixed as well as with the 7 tracks of the 1993 demo remastered as bonus for its 30th Anniversary of existence. ODYSSEY on the other hand was more in the epic but progressive doom heavy metal style and featured various of Dan Swanö’s befriended musicians in guest roles for both the self-titled 3-track EP initially released in 1999 as well as the Reinventing The Past release from 2010, which saw the project recording pretty diverse cover songs of DEPECHE MODE, SANDRA, RAINBOW, URIAH HEEP, CANDLEMASS, UFO and MICHAEL SCHENKER GROUP. While the Odyssey EP now comes remastered, Reinventing The Past has even been remixed by Swanö in 2022, plus adding an upgraded alternative version of MSG’s “Lost Horizons” track in order to make it the definitive versions of these hidden gem of Swedish Metal. Look out for the TOTAL TERROR and ODYSSEY re-issues finally being made available again on November 29th, 2024 across all digital platforms.
Stay tuned for further news about this catalog campaign and look out for even more re-issue material by EDGE OF SANITY and NIGHTINGALE soon…
EDGE OF SANITY / Line-Up: (Left to Right on photo!) Benny Larsson – Drums Sami Nerberg – Guitar Anders Lindberg – Bass Andreas Axelson – Guitar, Vocals Dan Swanö – Lead Vocals
Century Media Records are pleased to announce the start of the upcoming SECOND CHAPTER of the comprehensive catalogue re-issue campaign for legendary and groundbreaking Death Metallers EDGE OF SANITY, who were fronted by Swedish vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and acclaimed metal producer Dan Swanö (Opeth, Katatonia, Dissection, etc.).
Long out of print, never previously available in certain formats or in any properly re-worked re-issue version, as well as enhanced by tons of exciting extra-material, these definitive re-issues come efficiently all re-mastered by Swanö himself and partly even shine in a new light via additional remix efforts as bonus.
And in order to showcase the impressing remastering as well as bonus remix treatment given to some of the material, you can now also check out the EDGE OF SANITY digital singles “Darkday (Remaster 2024)” as well as “Darkday (Remix 2024)” , taken from the 2CD and Digital Album format from the upcoming “The Spectral Sorrows” re-issue, on all DSP’s as well as in visualizers:
Last week marks the release of the second album in the Century Media Records catalogue re-issue campaign for legendary and groundbreaking Death Metallers EDGE OF SANITY, fronted by Swedish vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and acclaimed metal producer Dan Swanö (Opeth, Katatonia, Dissection, etc.)
The band’s entire catalogue has been long out of print, never previously available in certain formats or in any properly re-worked re-issue version, so it is now made available in definitive versions enhanced by tons of exciting extra-material, all efficiently remastered (or partly even remixed as bonus!) by Swanö himself.
Century Media Records and InsideOutMusic have recently announced the upcoming “First Chapter” of a comprehensive catalog reissue campaign for legendary and groundbreaking Death Metallers EDGE OF SANITY as well as versatile Prog/Hardrock outfit NIGHTINGALE, who were both fronted by Swedish vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and acclaimed metal producer Dan Swanö (OPETH, KATATONIA, DISSECTION, etc.).
Long out of print, never previously available in certain formats or in any properly re-worked re-issue version, as well as enhanced by tons of exciting extra-material, these definitive re-issues come efficiently all re-mastered by Swanö himself and partly even shine in a new light via additional remix efforts as bonus.
The following re-issues will kick off the “First Chapter” of the re-issue campaign on June 21st, 2024: EDGE OF SANITY – Purgatory Afterglow (Re-issue) EDGE OF SANITY – Until Eternity Ends – EP (Re-issue) NIGHTINGALE – Nightfall Overture (Re-issue)
In order to support the start of the reissue campaign as well as to showcase the new treatment given to some of the material, you can now also check out the EDGE OF SANITY digital single and video clip for EDGE OF SANITY’s “Black Tears (Remaster 2024)”, taken from the upcoming Purgatory Afterglow reissue, on all DSP’s as well as in a relaunched video clip here:
Dan Swanö checked in with the following comment about “Black Tears”: “What kind of album “Purgatory Afterglow” should be took many turns and at one point it was gonna be an “all growls and back to the roots pure metal album”. So it’s quite strange that this track ended up on it in the end, and that it then even became the biggest “hit single” Edge Of Sanity ever had. There’s zero Death Metal going on here, but I still love it and always had a blast playing it live with both Edge Of Sanity and Nightingale”.
A cover version of the track “Black Tears” made popular by EDGE OF SANITY’s CMR labelmates Heaven Shall Burn can also be checked out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PtfyRjkn40
And the previously launched EDGE OF SANITY single “Twilight (Remix 2024)”, taken from the 2CD and Digital Album format from the upcoming Purgatory Afterglow reissue, is also available on all DSP’s as well as in a brand-new video clip created by Costin Chioreanu / Twilight13Media here: https://youtu.be/RPKMHlyAo9U and as part of the “Death Metal” streaming playlist on Spotify here: https://centurymedia.lnk.to/DeathMetal
Dan Swanö – who has not only had a long tradition of co-operating with mix/mastering roles for many CMR artists like ASPHYX, SKELETAL REMAINS, INSOMNIUM, but also last became musically active in Metal with the band WITHERSCAPE via CMR (Two albums and a mini album between 2013 and 2016) and also released his latest Nightingale album Retribution in 2014 on the IOM label – had checked in with the following comment about the re-issue campaign:
“It’s hard to describe in words exactly how excited we all are about these re-issues for both Edge Of Sanity and Nightingale. It’s incredible that these albums are finally available again, with the attention to detail they always deserved and with a label like Century Media Records / InsideOutMusic behind us, we know that these releases will turn out amazing in the end and not be so hard to get a hold of like they used to be, and hopefully reach a new audience as well as the old!
Personally, I always hoped that there would come a time when I could revisit all these albums and have the time and budget to remaster or even remix them and be able to present them the way I wish they had sounded all along. A lot of time, work and money have been put into making sure we have the best possible version of the original artwork to work with, and we searched everywhere for photographs and memorabilia. Endless hours have been spent talking and writing about these albums, resulting in super detailed liner notes for the Deluxe CD edition. Also, the lyrics have been double and tripled check, and it was quite amusing to see just how wrong most of them were both in the original booklets and online. The lyrics are in the booklets and on the inner sleeve of every re-issue!
I wholeheartedly hope you appreciate these new, improved and definitive versions of the entire Edge Of Sanity and Nightingale back catalogues!”
The “First Chapter” of the reissue campaign will cover the following all-remastered releases and formats in June/August:
EDGE OF SANITY – Purgatory Afterglow (Re-issue) Out June 21st, 2024 (CMR) – Ltd. Deluxe 2CD Jewelcase in O-Card (Incl. “Until Eternity Ends” EP songs and remix of all songs on bonus disc) – Black LP (180g vinyl, unlimited) – Ltd. transp. red LP (180g vinyl, limited to 500x copies, available from www.cmdistro.de & various other retailers) – Ltd. transp. sun yellow LP (180g vinyl, limited to 300x copies, available from www.cmdistro.de) – Digital Album / Remaster 2024 – Digital Album / Remix 2024 Note: The seminal 4th album, originally released in 1994, now celebrating its 30th Anniversary.
EDGE OF SANITY – Until Eternity Ends – EP (Re-issue) Out June 21st, 2024 (CMR) – Black 12″ EP (180g vinyl, unlimited) – Ltd. blue 12” EP (180g vinyl, limited to 300x copies, available from www.cmdistro.de & various other retailers) – Digital EP / Remaster 2024 – Digital EP / Remix 2024 Note: The companion 4-track EP to “Purgatory Afterglow”, originally released in 1994, now celebrating its 30th Anniversary. Never available on vinyl before, including remix versions on Side B.
EDGE OF SANITY – Nothing But Death Remains (Re-issue) Out August 23rd, 2024 (CMR) – Ltd. Deluxe 2CD Jewelcase in O-Card (Incl. remix and rare 1991 rough mix versions on bonus disc) – Black LP (180g vinyl, unlimited) – Ltd. transp. blue LP (180g vinyl, limited to 500x copies, available from www.cmdistro.de & various other retailers) – Ltd. lilac LP (180g vinyl, limited to 300x copies, available from www.cmdistro.de) – Digital Album / Remaster 2024 – Digital Album / Remix 2024 Note: The intense debut album, originally released in 1991.
NIGHTINGALE – Nightfall Overture (Re-issue) Out June 21st, 2024 (IOM) – Ltd. Deluxe 2CD Jewelcase in O-Card (Incl. 16-track live bonus disc) – Black LP (180g, unlimited) – Ltd. transp. light blue LP (180g vinyl, limited to 300x copies, available from www.insideoutshop.de & various other retailers) – Digital Album / Remaster 2024 Note: Special compilation album, originally released in 2005 for the band’s 10th anniversary, including re-imagined and re-recorded songs from the band’s first four albums as well as 2 additional songs.
NIGHTINGALE – I (Re-issue) Out August 23rd, 2024 (IOM) – Ltd. Deluxe 2CD Jewelcase in O-Card (Incl. 7 additional songs and 18-track bonus disc) – Black LP (180g, unlimited) – Ltd. transp. sun yellow LP (180g vinyl, limited to 300x copies, available from www.insideoutshop.de & various other retailers) – Digital Album / Remaster 2024 Note: The 3rd album, originally released in 2000, available on vinyl for the first time ever.
Stay tuned for further news about this catalogue campaign and look out for the “Second Chapter” of EDGE OF SANITY and NIGHTINGALE re-issues coming late 2024 / early 2025…
Century Media Records and InsideOutMusic are thrilled to unveil the “First Chapter” of a comprehensive catalogue re-issue for iconic death metallers EDGE OF SANITY and the diverse prog/hardrock band NIGHTINGALE, both led by Dan Swanö.
Celebrate the rebirth of these albums, now available in previously unreleased formats and enhanced with new material, all remastered by Swanö. These re-issues are not just polished – some feature new remixes adding further allure.
Dan Swanö shares his enthusiasm: “It’s exhilarating to see these albums available again, detailed and presented as they were always meant to be heard. This campaign isn’t just about revisiting the past—it’s about re-introducing these powerful works in their definitive forms, complete with corrected lyrics and rich liner notes.”
The “First Chapter” of the re-issue series includes classics like “Purgatory Afterglow”, “Until Eternity Ends – EP”, and more. Don’t miss the newly remixed single “Twilight (Remix 2024)” by EDGE OF SANITY, now available!
Get ready to rediscover these monumental albums with the quality and care they deserve, finally easy to acquire through Century Media Records and InsideOutMusic.
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