We didn't have the time of developing older demo songs, they were all new ideas and came at a time when there was a lot going on otherwise. We finished the touring cycle for Swallowed In Black (1990) in June/July of 91, and prior to that I was in Florida recording with Death. We got to the song writing soon after the tour. But I had a minor surgery in this time that took me out of rehearsing with the band for a little while, although I used the time to form some of my own compositions. Shortly after recovering from surgery I went to record with Autopsy around the end of the year (1991). Right after the turn of the year, early 1992, we were in the studio in California with Bill Metoyer recording these songs that would be A Vision Of Misery...The writing was a little more evenly spread too as Darren wrote four, me three and Rob two songs each. So without one person having a huge work load, I think it was able to come together quicker than other Sadus records.
Di Giorgio / Sadus interview, Invisible Oranges, 2017
SADUS released their third album, A Vision of Misery, on this day in 1992 through Roadracer.
We had come out of our "world decay" phase with Swallowed and were writing more about fictional and history based epic story type lyrics, along with a little more personal experience type lyrics...Lyrically for me "Under The Knife" had obvious experiences integrated from my hospital visit during this time. And I also concluded the trilogy of an idea that ran across the first 3 albums. Beginning with the song "Illusions", then "Images" and finally an idea for a song simply called "Visions" (which stayed as part of the title idea) that was scrapped and some of the lyrics ended up as the foundation for "Echoes of Forever".
Di Giorgio / Sadus interview, Invisible Oranges, 2017