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The more I listen to this album, the more impressed I am. While I'm not really a fan of death metal and its monotonous gutteral grunts and dizzy time changes, Edge of Sanity completely blows away the competition by creating a death metal sound that incorporates melody, great song arrangement, and a sense of what's going to remain memorable to the listener. A lot of death metal bands rely far too much on 1000 riffs per song and changing time structures every time it starts to get interesting. This is where E.O.S. excels as they will take a good riff, milk it for a bit, and change tempos in a very engaging manner. Employing the majority of their melody in their lead guitar lines, this leaves room for the songs to be brutal while still having an impetuus to draw the listener in and remember the song long after it is over. The opener "Twilight" best describes E.O.S. and why their style is so incredible. Using Dan Swano's immense talent as both a death metal gutteral singer and melodic singer to the hilt, the guitars are layered at least three deep, creating a complex, yet memorable sound. The aggression remains intact and brutality unmolested. This is one album any extreme metal fan should own. Review by: Gravedaddy666 With the death of Stokholm death metal (entombed grave all turning to stoner rock bands), Edge of Sanity had some choices to make in order to sound contemporary. Would they follow their genre into oblivion or persevere on their own? Well Dan of course is focused and makes an album which takes the remnants of the old bands style, mixes it with new Gothenburg style swedish death metal, throws in some prog, some good old sabbath and other assorted goodies and comes out with this. It works cause of Dans unifying focus for the band, turning these sporadic ideas into a synthesized whole. Its actually more put together than Spectral Sorrows, which sounds kinda like an unfocused series of experiements. On this album, the experiemnts sound intentional since really different songs on an album became edge of sanitys trademark. Part of why this is is because Dan didnt want the other members touching his songs. This causes the rift that eventually tears the band up, but for now it left us with some interesting music 5 out of 5 Review by: starchildo this is in my opinion the best EOS album, and maybe the only one worthy to be remembered in their discography.There's a fantastic equilibrium between clean voice and growl, between death and gothic/doom. Black Blood, Black Tears! Review by: o		Use the textarea below to write your review of this album. Please obey to these rules: - Write the review in ENGLISH! - Do not ask or offer mp3's - Reviews of 5 words or less are no reviews - Do not flame other reviewers. Use the forum for that If you do not follow these rules your review will NOT be added. Username: Password: (To get a username and password you have to register.)
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