Evolution is a best of

Greatest hits

A greatest hits album is a music compilation album of successful, previously released songs by a particular artist or band...

 compilation album

Compilation album

A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...

 by the Swedish death metal

Death metal

Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....

 band Edge of Sanity

Edge of Sanity

Edge of Sanity was a Swedish death metal band. Edge of Sanity are regarded alongside Opeth as being the first to fuse extreme metal styles like death and black metal with progressive rock.- History :...

, released by Black Mark Productions

Black Mark Productions

Black Mark Productions is an independent record label based in Sweden and an office in Germany that specializes in extreme metal releases, perhaps best known for its close connection to Quorthon, leader of the defining black metal band Bathory until his death in 2004...

 on November 29, 1999. The songs were selected from various recordings including; early demos, remastered and mixed versions of songs and covers by various bands.

Disc 1

1. "Pernicious Anguish" (demo) ('99 remix) – 2:20
2. "Immortal Souls" (remastered) – 3:59
3. "Maze of Existence (Epidemic Reign Part I)" ('99 remix) – 4:40
4. "The Dead" (remastered) – 3:50
5. "Angel of Distress" ('99 remix) – 3:29
6. "Everlasting" (remastered) – 5:38
7. "After Afterlife" ('99 remix) – 4:35
8. "Human Aberration" (remastered) – 3:35
9. "Kill the Police" (Cryptic Death cover) (remastered) – 0:40
10. "When All is Said
    When All Is Said
    When All Is Said is a remastered best of compilation album by the Swedish death metal band Edge of Sanity, released by Black Mark Productions on October 2, 2006. On the promotional poster released by Black Mark Productions, it reads: "Very remastered by Dan Swanö". On the album cover are...
    
    " (remastered remix) – 6:33
11. "Blood of My Enemies" (Manowar cover) (remastered demo version) – 3:32
12. "Elegy" (remastered) – 2:29

Disc 2

1. "The Masque" ('99 remix) – 6:29
2. "Pernicious Anguish" (remastered) – 2:10
3. "Until Eternity Ends
   Until Eternity Ends
   Until Eternity Ends is the first and only EP by the Swedish death metal band Edge of Sanity, released by Black Mark Productions in 1994. There are two versions of this CD, one has a blue and yellow cover in a standard CD box and the other has a red and black cover in a slim-line single box...
   
   " ('99 remix) – 3:56
4. "Song of Sirens" ('99 remix) – 2:30
5. "Criminally Insane" (Slayer
   Slayer
   Slayer is an American thrash metal band formed in Huntington Park, California, in 1981 by guitarists Jeff Hanneman and Kerry King. Slayer rose to fame with their 1986 release, Reign in Blood, and is credited as one of the "Big Four" thrash metal acts, along with Metallica, Megadeth and...
   
    cover) (remastered) – 2:31
6. "Murder. Dividead" ('99 remix) – 3:17
7. "I Wanna Go Home" (Sator
   Sator (band)
   Sator is a Swedish rock band. The band was founded in Borlänge and have released 7 albums. They notably released a song about a disgruntled Baby Doc Duvalier complaining about his fortunes, called "Baby Doc Holiday"...
   
    cover) (remastered) – 3:36
8. "Damned (by the Damned)" (remastered) – 5:31
9. "Moonshine" (remastered) – 1:41
10. "Bleed You Dry" (remastered) – 5:24
11. "Mother" (Danzig
    Danzig (band)
    Danzig is an American heavy metal band, formed in 1987 in Lodi, New Jersey. The band serves as a musical outlet for the singer/songwriter Glenn Danzig. Danzig can be seen as the third stage in Glenn Danzig's musical career, preceded by the horror punk bands The Misfits and Samhain...
    
     cover) (remastered) – 3:07
12. "Epidemic Reign" – 3:40

Production

• All songs recorded and mixed by Dan Swanö
  Dan Swanö
  Dan-Erland Swanö is a Swedish musician who is currently the vocalist, guitarist, ex-bassist and ex-drummer for the band Nightingale as well as the Owner of Unisound but he achieved fame as the vocalist and songwriter of progressive death metal band Edge of Sanity.As a multi-instrumentalist he is...
  
   except; "Angel of Distress", "When All is Said", "After Afterlife" and "Kill the Police"
• "Human Aberration" by Rex Gissleaigun
• "Damned (by the Damned)" by Peter Tägtgren
  Peter Tägtgren
  Alf Peter Tägtgren is a Swedish musician and producer. He is the founder, main songwriter, lead vocalist, and guitarist of the death metal band Hypocrisy as well as the industrial metal band PAIN in which he is the only member....
  
  
• "Mother" by Kenta Brass
• All remixed and pre-mastering by Dan Swanö
• Mastered by Tom Müller
• All songs written by Edge of Sanity
  Edge of Sanity
  Edge of Sanity was a Swedish death metal band. Edge of Sanity are regarded alongside Opeth as being the first to fuse extreme metal styles like death and black metal with progressive rock.- History :...
  
   except:

• "Criminally Insane" by Slayer
• "I Wanna Go Home" by Sator
• "Kill the Police" by Cryptic Death
• "Mother" by Danzig

• Executive production by Black Mark Productions
  Black Mark Productions
  Black Mark Productions is an independent record label based in Sweden and an office in Germany that specializes in extreme metal releases, perhaps best known for its close connection to Quorthon, leader of the defining black metal band Bathory until his death in 2004...
  
  

Other

• Photo credits: Tobias Lundgren, Åsa Swanö, Mattias Axelsson, Anders Måreby
• Graphics by Dan Swanö