Century Media Records and InsideOutMusic 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 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.
Following the “First Chapter” of re-issues from June/August, which saw EDGE OF SANITY’s Purgatory Afterglow, Until Eternity Ends – EP and Nothing But Death Remains as well as NIGHTINGALE’s Nightfall Overture and I titles being made available again, the first titles of the “Second Chapter” came out in December with EDGE OF SANITY’s The Spectral Sorrows and NIGHTINGALE’s Invisible albums.
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Today marks the release date for EDGE OF SANITY’s “Infernal”, the special Elegy – Chapter I (Demos Comp.) as well as NIGHTINGALE’s Alive Again album:
EDGE OF SANITY – Infernal (Re-issue)
– Ltd. Deluxe 2CD Jewelcase in O-Card (Incl. 14-track bonus disc)
– Black LP (180g vinyl, unlimited)
– Ltd. deep blood red LP (180g vinyl, limited to 500x copies, available from www.cmdistro.de & various other retailers)
– Ltd. apricot colored LP (180g vinyl, limited to 300x copies, available from www.cmdistro.de & various other retailers)
– Digital Album / Remaster 2024
Note: The heavy yet adventurous sixth album from 1997, available on vinyl for the first time ever.
EDGE OF SANITY – Elegy – Chapter I (Demos Comp.)
– 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 – Alive Again (Re-issue)
– 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.
For exact track-listing of the entire “Second Chapter” (as well as the “First Chapter”) re-issues, please visit: https://www.danswano.com/track-listing/
You can order all current re-issue titles here: https://edgeofsanity-nightingale.lnk.to/ReIssues
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 or 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 – checked in with the following comment about the second chapter of the catalogue’s re-issue campaign:
“Fuelled by the overwhelming response for the first chapter of re-issues, I dived right into Chapter II and after much blood, sweat and tears, I got to both the remaster and the remix of “The Spectral Sorrows” to where I always wanted it to be. While the guitar tones remain pretty much the same on the remix, the drum sound got a much-needed overhaul and the bass guitar is more present and the vocals are clearer. The bonus CD has a remix of the whole album plus the “death-grindified” re-recording of “Pernicious Anguish” (the first Edge of Sanity track ever written!) and a brand-new recording of the “Serenade for the Dead” outro.
“Infernal” could sadly not be remixed (because of the lack of multi-track audio files…) but I am very pleased with the way the remaster came out and it enabled me to listen to the album all the way through in a way that I had never done before, and free of the ear-fatiguing peaks, I enjoyed the album a lot more than I’ve ever done before! The second CD has the remastered version of the “Live in Esbjerg” show from 1991 on it, for which I spent a lot of time to make sure this cassette recording sounded as good as can be. The liner notes for the CD are massive, with all band members contributing alongside the guest lyricists Jonas Renkse, Mikael Åkerfeldt and more. There’s also demo versions of four of the album tracks, and a remaster of the classic crust core classic “Moonshine” with all members sharing the vocal duties of the Swedish lyrics!
With “Elegy – Chapter I” The dream of a complete Edge of Sanity demo collection finally came true. I spent more time remastering and remixing these demos than it took to record and mix them the first time around, but since I have a soft-spot for the era and find some of the demo versions of the songs superior to the ones later re-recorded for the albums, it was crucial for me that these recordings sounds as good as possible, and now they do! Also an insane amount of time has been invested in the special liner notes for the CD release.
Nightingale’s “Alive Again” is another release that I have dreamt of remastering for a long time. The previous version of the album sounds very bright and undynamic. After a bit of back and forth, I found a slightly darker tone that made the album a world of good and I also re-introduced some of the dynamics that got lost along the way. There’s tons of bonus material for the CD, including demos and live versions and some previously unreleased stuff as well and of course lengthy liner notes and tons of photos and memorabilia.‘
And to round off this second catalogue re-issue chapter we have the “Invisible” album that now sounds a bit more open than the original release. A lot of time was also spent on removing some clicks and pops that somehow got overlooked in the first place. Again, there is a massive amount of bonus content for the second CD, including demos and the album pre-production plus songwriting sketches and live tracks. As usual, very detailed liner notes and tons of photos complete the package!
I hope you will all enjoy this next chapter of re-issues as much as we did with assembling the materials!!!”
In related news, Century Media Records has also recently made 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. Check out the TOTAL TERROR and ODYSSEY re-issues made available again across all digital platforms.
And stay tuned for further news about this catalogue campaign with further re-issue material by EDGE OF SANITY and NIGHTINGALE as part of the “Third Chapter” coming soon…
EDGE OF SANITY & NIGHTINGALE online links:
https://www.danswano.com
https://linktr.ee/eos1
https://linktr.ee/nightingale1