''The Spectral Sorrows'' is the third studio album by the Swedish death metal band,

Edge of Sanity Edge of Sanity was a Swedish death metal band that, alongside Opeth, is commonly regarded as being the first to fuse extreme metal styles like death and black metal with progressive rock. The group was founded by Dan Swanö in 1989 and ended in ...

, recorded by Börje Forsberg in July–August 1993 and released by Black Mark Production in 1993. The bassist Anders Lindberg could not record the album due to mandatory military service. This album begins Edge of Sanity's progression from pure death metal to a more progressive and

melodic death metal Melodic death metal (also referred to as melodeath) is a subgenre of death metal that employs highly melodic guitar riffs, often borrowing from traditional heavy metal (including New Wave of British Heavy Metal). The genre features the heavine ...

sound. There's more focus on clean vocals than the album's predecessor, specifically on their cover of "Blood of My Enemies" by Manowar and "Sacrificed", the latter showing more of a cleanly-sung

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style. The cover art was done by artist

Dan Seagrave Daniel Seagrave (born 1970) is a British artist, who created many record covers for death metal bands especially in the early 1990s. He lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He grew up in Ravenshead, near Nottingham. Seagrave's works are typically ...

Track listing

Personnel

;Edge of Sanity * Dan Swanö - Vocals, Piano, Guitars * Benny Larsson - Drums, Percussion * Sami Nerberg - Guitars * Andreas Axelsson - Guitars, Bass, Vocals (on 2, 7, 12) ;Production * Dan Swanö - Engineering * Åsa Jonsén - Photography * Dan Seagrave - Artwork * Peter in de Betou - Mastering * Börje Forsberg - Executive producer * Maren Lotz - Layout, Graphics Edge of Sanity albums 1993 albums Albums with cover art by Dan Seagrave {{1990s-death-metal-album-stub