And by taking a chronological approach with its generous 24 tracks, this release certainly lives up to its title, as it traces the Dan Swano-led group's often unbelievable maturation process, out of the basest death metal savagery (never more vile than the demo of first-ever composition, "Pernicious Anguish") until achieving the apex of melodic accessibility and compositional sophistication that was still recognizable as death metal (see closing outtake "Epidemic Reign"). Several years before they took pains to summarize their near-legendary career with 2006's balanced and concise When All Is Said collection, Swedish death metal icons Edge of Sanity unselfishly dug out and exposed their darkest entrails through 1999's Evolution - a double-disc, odds & sods compilation, mixing remixed album cuts with rare demos and a slew of entertaining covers.
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