Crimson - Edge Of Sanity

Dan Swanö's forty-minute death metal composition 'Crimson' is far from a masterpiece or inspired extreme metal classic, but it's still perfectly admirable and enjoyable as a bold experiment in progressive metal that avoids the usual pitfalls. This album/song never seems indulgent or showy in the slightest, and makes for a genuinely enjoyable, coherent and varied listening experience for the patient death metal fan. Comparisons to Green Carnation's hour-long 'Light of Day, Day of Darkness' and Opeth's work around the period are inevitable, especially due to the guest presence of Mikael Åkerfeldt, but I'd say this is a little less accomplished than either, and ...