Swedish band Edge Of Sanity was one of the first bands to sign to Black Mark Production and reached its popularity partly through its music (which did not much resemble other Swedish metal acts) and partly through the constant wife-swapping of singer/leader Swanö. He further managed to garner additional publicity by having bands record at his studio - Gorysound renamed later Unisound.

Not only Dan Swanö managed to entertain himself - and some others - by his many projects, Swanö would routinely contribute musically to the bands visiting his studio. In the late 90's Swanö closed Unisound Studio and began working at a music store. He had had hearing problems and had gotten impatient with working with other bands for days. Some of his equipment would later end up at Soundlab Studio.

The band's history began with several low budget demos until the infamous Kar-Nu-Gi-A tape put the band on the map. The quartet, with the addition of Lindberg who was in the punk band Ulanbator, became a quintet and signed to the fledgling Black Mark which would many more Swedish acts for the next several years. The result of the session at Montezuma Studio was the well-received Nothing But Death Remains album. The side projects never ceased, especially because unlike their Swedish brethren, Edge Of Sanity had to succumb to Black Mark's aversion to its bands' touring.

Axelsson is kicked out of Marduk because, according to the Satan worshippers, he's "wimped out."

1996's Cryptic is quite suave and features a 40-minute long song. The follow-up album Infernal is recorded by Hypocrisy's Peter Tagtgren. This album does not see a performance from guitarist Sami Nerberg who is absent because of "personal problems." When after much here and there Swanö left in the autumn of 1997 the band, Edge Of Sanity not only continued but actually did its second ever tour with replacement Karlsson. Karlsson becomes the bassist for Solar Dawn in the summer of 2002.

Somewhat surprisingly, Swanö returned to and took control of Edge Of Sanity in 2003. As payback for sending him packing from the band earlier, Swanö composed and played the new album solo. Swanö recruited musicians such as Mike Wead and Andy LaRocque to guest on Crimson II. Black Mark duly issued Crimson II in the August of that year. The label also issued Crimson and Crimson II as a double-LP together. Black Mark Productions released a sampler, When All Is Said - The Best Of Edge Of Sanity, in late 2006. Rogga Johansson who had contributed to Crimson II and Dan Swanö recorded an album under the Demiurg monicker in 2006.

EDGE OF SANITY - INFERNAL- BLACK MARK PRODUCTION
Seeing that Edge Of Sanity's mastermind Dan Swano is not finding as much dedication to the band in himself as before, and noting that this will be the last Edge.. album in a couple of years - at least - and that guitarist Sami Nerberg couldn't even afford/bother to show up to do this album, fans would be well- advised to get this. For, basically, it might be Edge Of Sanity’s swan song. Black Mark’s head office is going frantic at the thought. Regardless, the album is an "interesting" one, as some would say. Kick off song Hell's Where The Heart Is attempts a rightful mixture of Cannibal Corpse (listen to the Bleeding riff) and In Flames (the melody of course, stupid). Song number three 15:36 begins like a Crowbar tune with Dan Swano doing fine impression of Viking-era Quorthon! Then the band turns around and does a brutal number complete with Kevin Sharp-esque high screams. Fascinating. Especially when songs 7 and 11 are no more than lame wastes of time. Oh well, can't have it all, I guess. Still, 9 out of 11 isn't all that bad now, is it? - Ali "The Metallian"