Unorthodox (Edge of Sanity album)
Appearance
Unorthodox | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | July 8, 1992 | |||
Recorded | December 1991 – January 1992 | |||
Genre | Death metal | |||
Length | 57:35 | |||
Label | Black Mark | |||
Producer | Rex Gisslén & Börje Forsberg | |||
Edge of Sanity chronology | ||||
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Allmusic | [1] |
Unorthodox is the second full-length studio album by the Swedish death metal band Edge of Sanity. It was recorded between December 1991 and January 1992 with Tomas Skogsberg and released by Black Mark on July 8, 1992.
Dan Swanö has claimed that this is his favorite Edge of Sanity album, and even went as far as to call it "perfect". Though primarily death metal, some tracks on this album foreshadow the shift to more melodic sounds which would take shape on 1993's The Spectral Sorrows. This is also the first Edge of Sanity album (and one of the first death metal albums) to feature clean vocals, which appear briefly in the track "Enigma".
Track listing
[edit]No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "The Unorthodox" | Andreas | 0:38 |
2. | "Enigma"
| Andreas "Dread" Axelsson, Sami Nerberg, Dan Swanö | 7:06 |
3. | "Incipience to the Butchery" | Nerberg, Swanö | 2:00 |
4. | "In the Veins / Darker Than Black" | Axelsson, Nerberg, Swanö | 4:42 |
5. | "Everlasting (Epidemic Reign Part III)" | Axelsson, Swanö | 5:34 |
6. | "After Afterlife" | Sami Nerberg, Swanö | 4:37 |
7. | "Beyond the Unknown" | Axelsson, Nerberg, Swanö | 3:51 |
8. | "Nocturnal" | Axelsson, Nerberg, Swanö | 5:36 |
9. | "A Curfew for the Damned (...Blind Belief)" | Axelsson, Nerberg, Swanö | 4:31 |
10. | "Cold Sun (Epidemic Reign Part IV)" | Nerberg, Swanö | 2:54 |
11. | "The Day of Maturity" | Axelsson | 3:45 |
12. | "Requiscon by Pace" (Instrumental) | 1:24 | |
13. | "Dead But Dreaming" | Axelsson, Nerberg, Swanö | 4:04 |
14. | "When All Is Said" | Pellow, Swanö | 6:53 |
Total length: | 57:35 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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15. | "Human Aberration" | Edge of Sanity | 3:41 |
Total length: | 61:16 |
Personnel
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- Dan Swanö − vocals, piano
- Andreas Axelsson − electric guitar
- Sami Nerberg − electric guitar
- Anders Lindberg − bass guitar
- Benny Larsson − drums, percussion
- Guest musicians
- Yasmina Molero – backing vocals (on "Enigma")
- Anders Mareby − classical guitar, cello
- Production
- Mattias Axelsson – photography
- Bart Meganck – cover art
- Lasse Hoile – logo art
- Gunnar Swanö – logo art
- Boss – executive producer
- Rex Gisslén – engineering, mixing
- Dread – logo art concept
- Dan Swanö – mixing
- Dogger Tralce – drawing
References
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