Artist: EDGE OF SANITY
Album: PURGATORY AFTERGLOW (CD)

Release date: 1994/ 2003
EAN/UPS: 4012743006122
Media type: CD

Purgatory Afterglow is the fourth full-length studio album by Swedish death metal band Edge of Sanity. The album was recorded by Dan Swano in Unisound Studios, Orebro, Sweden, in July 1994 and released in 1994 by Black Mark Productions. Purgatory Afterglow is dedicated to the loving memory of Kurt Cobain. There are two different versions to the disc; the mirror-like disc with black letters and the black disc with gold letters. The Japanese release features the tracks "Until Eternity Ends" and "Eternal Eclipse" from the Until Eternity Ends EP. One of the two only Edge of Sanity videos was made for the song "Black Tears" and it can be viewed here (the other video was done for "Uncontrol Me" from the Cryptic album). This song was covered by the bands Eternal Tears of Sorrow, on their album Chaotic Beauty, and Heaven Shall Burn, on their album Iconoclast (Part 1: The Final Resistance).

]In July 2014, Guitar World ranked Purgatory Afterglow at number 35 in their "Superunknown: 50 Iconic Albums That Defined 1994" list.

All lyrics written by Dan Swano, unless otherwise mentioned, all music composed by Dan Swano, unless otherwise.

TRACKLIST:
No. Title Lyrics Music Length 

1. "Twilight"       7:51
2. "Of Darksome Origin"   Dan Swano, Andreas "Dread" Axelsson Swano, Dread 5:02
3. "Blood-Colored"   Swano, Dread   4:01
4. "Silent"       5:06
5. "Black Tears"       3:15
6. "Elegy"     Swano, Dread 3:57
7. "Velvet Dreams"   Dread Dread, Swano 7:11
8. "Enter Chaos"   Dread Dread 2:24
9. "The Sinner and the Sadness"       3:07
10. "Song of Sirens"   Sami Nerberg, Dread Swano, Dread, Nerberg 2:33