Sentenced
Sentenced was a Finnish heavy metal band that played melodic death metal in their early years. The band formed in 1989, in the town of Muhos, Finland, and broke up in 2005.
Biography
Early years (1989-1991)
Sentenced started in 1989 as Deformity and changed their name to Sentenced in 1989, after a few line-up changes. The original line-up consisted of Miika Tenkula (lead guitar and vocals), Sami Lopakka (guitar), Vesa Ranta (drums), and Lari Kylmänen (bass). They recorded two demo tapes: When Death Joins Us... in 1990 and Rotting Ways to Misery in 1991. The band actually got their very first record deal (with the French label Thrash Records) after their first demo.
Shadows of the Past (1991-1993)
In 1991, bassist Taneli Jarva joined the band, replacing Kylmänen just as the band was about to record their debut album, Shadows of the Past. At that time, their musical style was fast, typical European melodic death metal. In Spring 1992, they recorded a three-song promotional tape, Journey to Pohjola, and as a result got a deal with the Finnish Spinefarm Records. By the year of 1992 had done over 50 live shows and sold all 1500 copies of their debut album Shadows of the Past, their earlier 2 demos and a lot of merchandise.
Podcasts:
Sentenced
ALBUMS
- Manifesto of Sentenced released: 2009
- The Coffin released: 2009
- Shadows of the Past released: 2008
- Frozen released: 2007
- Buried Alive released: 2006
- The Funeral Album released: 2005
- The Cold White Light released: 2002
- Amok / Love & Death released: 2001
- North From Here / Shadows of the Past released: 2001
- Crimson released: 2000
- Greatest Kills released: 1997
- Story: A Recollection released: 1997
- Down released: 1996
- Amok released: 1995
- North From Here released: 1993
- Story: Greatest Kills released:
Manifesto of Sentenced
Released 2009- Ever-Frost (single edit)
- Vengeance Is Mine
- Despair-Ridden Hearts
- No One There (single edit)
- Cross My Heart and Hope to Die
- Excuse Me While I Kill Myself
- Broken
- Dead Moon Rising
- Killing Me, Killing You (single edit)
- Drown Together
- The Rain Comes Falling Down
- The Suicider
- Bleed
- Noose (live)
- Nepenthe (live)
- The Trooper
- Northern Lights
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by Krisiun
Sentenced Morning
by: KrisiunIn a sentenced morning, a day of holocaustic death
A fallen nation awaits for the worst of all nightmares
One mighty bomber surges to lit the clear skies
Drop the uranium bomb, prepare the initial blast.
A sudden impact strikes, making the earth shake
The whole city disappears into a smoking, awful cloud
Pure, boiling, rising flames shattering concrete, glass
and steel
Bodies blown through windows, shades of corpses onto
walls
Overwhelming, blasting heat, shades of corpses onto
walls.
A deafening roar anticipates the second, shocking wave
Then, small fires emerge from the cracked, scorched
ground
To in seconds blow the worst of fire storms.
Exterminated nation smoke and dust entangled
The sunlight struck can't penetrate the awful cloud
Crawling out of debris, survivors shinning like lamps
Radiation flows with the breeze, right beneath the awful