EDGE OF SANITY – Re-issue of “Cryptic” album and release of second “Elegy” compilation announced; Lauch of “Uncontroll Me (Remaster 2026)” single/video!
- Jason Hesley
- Feb 5
- 3 min read
Completing the final “Fourth Chapter” of the comprehensive catalogue re-issue campaign for Dan Swanö fronted Death Metallers EDGE OF SANITY as well as Prog/Hardrock outfit NIGHTINGALE, it’s now time to announce the pre-sale start for EDGE SANITY’s “Cryptic” album as well as the “Elegy - Chapter II” compilation, both out April 3rd, 2026 via Century Media Records worldwide.
Next to a careful full remastering treatment by Dan Swanö himself for all of the recordings, these two releases again come with plenty of bonus material and in the following formats:
EDGE OF SANITY – “Cryptic (Re-issue)”
- Ltd. Deluxe 2CD Jewelcase in O-Card (Incl. 8 album tracks on 1st disc and 10 bonus tracks on 2nd disc)
- Dark green LP (180g vinyl, 8 tracks)
- Digital Album (Remaster, 8 tracks)
Note: The 1997 death metal album featuring then new vocalist Roberth Karlsson (Scar Symmetry, Pan.Thy.Monium, Facebreaker, Darkified), replacing Dan Swanö. Available for the first time ever on vinyl.
EDGE OF SANITY – “Elegy - Chapter II (Demos Comp.)”
- Ltd. Deluxe 2CD Jewelcase in O-Card (19 tracks / 73 minutes on 1st disc and 18 trcaks / 74 minutes on 2nd disc as bonus)
- Gatefold 2LP (180g black vinyl, 19 tracks)
- Digital Album (Remaster, 19 tracks)
Note: Compilation of mainly previously unreleased EDGE OF SANITY rarities (pre-production demos, remixes, rehearsal/live-cuts, previous bonus tracks or alternate song versions, etc.) created between albums from 1990 until 2003, as well as a string of newly prepared instrumentals of the group’s most popular compositions as special bonus. Available with classy hand-drawn cover by visual artist Mark Rudolph (Carcass, Undeath).
For exact track-listing of these releases as well as the entire “Fourth Chapter” (and all the previous chapters) of re-issues, please visit:
You can pre-order these re-issues and also obtain all other previously launched re-issue titles here:
Available as digital audio single today, you can also check out EDGE OF SANITY’s “Uncontroll Me (Remaster 2026)”, taken from the “Cryptic (Re-issue)” album, in a video clip here: https://youtu.be/KWMOI13fTxA
Dan Swanö commented about “Cryptic (Re-issue)” as follows: “This album is so much better than I thought! Since I was out of the band before they started working on these songs, there was only one song I had heard in its entirety before and some odd snippets of some tunes from it over the years. Since the guys were fine with me remastering it, I had to hear it so many times over a short period that I knew every note at the end of it and I must say that I like this version of EDGE OF SANITY more than what “the other guys” wrote for “Infernal”, where I just threw my vocal on top of what they had written, most of it first takes, and that was that. This is really potent writing from the guys, and you can hear that they really rolled up their sleeved and created the best version of what they believed to be what EDGE OF SANITY was all about. Changing singers is never easy for a band, but there are those times like this, when it works out…and the band is revitalized and reborn into something different, but still very potent. I find it sad that the guys never got to make more records with this line-up. We were lucky to get a hold of the original 1/4” master tapes and had them transferred at 96k/24b for a killer vinyl version. The first ever for this album. The original CD release was also made a bit too loud for its own good, in its original mastering, and now it can breathe again and the most expensive production ever for the band can be heard in all its glory. And I know it might be a strange thing to say, but it might well be the best sounding EDGE OF SANITY album, recorded and mixed by the legend Ronny Lahti! The bonus CD has some cool unreleased alternate mixes that we found on the tapes and there’s a pretty around the edges sounding, yet awesome live recording of their gig at the Motala Metal Festival in 1999.”
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