![]() It has battles with demons, soul-imprisoning stasis chambers, ritual mass-suicide and the whole thing is filled with grandeur and epic horror.īut the album is a triumph in songwriting much more so than in storytelling. ) Besides the brilliant songwriting, the album is kept cohesive with a post-apocalyptic story about an infertile Earth and a messianic princess corrupted by evil forces. 40 minutes of continuous music is practically what progressive rock was invented for, and one could say that Edge of Sanity finalized their transformation from their death metal beginnings to their prog-death peak with this record (others might say it was this album’s predecessor, Purgatory Afterglow, but that’s splitting hairs. Much like Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells, Jethro Tull’s Thick as a Brick and last year’s Winter’s Gate by Insomnium, Crimson is an album consisting of a single song. ![]() To avoid preaching only to the choir, let me briefly expand on what Crimson is. And they know of Edge of Sanity, and thus of Crimson, their quintessential album and crowning achievement. They know of, Nightingale, Moontower and his (possibly several hundred) other projects. They know of Witherscape, not just receiving, but absolutely earning record of the month here just last year. They know about his work producing some of the best sounding records in metal. You drop the name, and a knowing smile spreads on their face. ![]() But sometimes, every now and then, you find yourself opposite another discerning metal listener. “Is he an IKEA designer?” You facepalm, shake your head and move on. The name won’t mean much to the public at large. ![]()
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