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=-PtfyRjkn40And 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: |
