Ok, now I've also listened (several times) to the second disc, "Crimson II" sounds very good now! And finally, tracks for "Crimson I"!
By the way, has anyone ever thought of doing a kind of tracklist for "Crimson" (now possible for both parts)? I mean like where which lyrics start, etc.?
But one little thing is still kind of bugging me about "Crimson II": Although it sounds much better now, I still cannot understand any of the lyrics.
Musically, it's really a masterpiece, in my opinion. Songwriting, arrangements, performances, melodies, even every solo, etc., I love it! It's amazing how the song "flows" from beginning to end! But the growling feels kind of strange to me, because one thing I always loved about Edge of sanity was that you could understand the lyrics very well without reading the booklet. This was really great and somewhat more "catchy", compared to a lot of other death metal bands, without loosing the agression or brutality.
Or take Death, for example, one of my favourite bands. You could understand every word Chuck was singing, still he sounded more agressive, more pissed-off and scary than most of the other death metal vocalists. In fact, if I just understand things like "gurglaaargh", like with some other bands, it's not really brutal or scary, but ridiculous or funny
Anyway, that was always great about Edge of sanity, but somehow on "Crimson II" it's very hard to distinguish words and sounds from the growling, at least to my ears. I don't know, if this is a recording issue or sound issue, or due to the performances?
In my opinion, the growling could be a bit more clear, it would maybe add a lot of great moments to an already great album. Like in some parts, where you can understand some words, they really stand out (like "on the treshold of a dangerous decision..." or "she had forsaken...").
But that's really the only point, apart from this, the second disc is like a dream come true: Two of the best "extreme-longtrack-concept-works" ever on one album!
