- published: 17 Oct 2007
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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.
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.
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.
[music: Jarwa & SENTENCED, words: Jarwa]
Look into the night...
Look unto the sky...
face Her nightly shape...
feel Her chilling cold - Mother Moon is full!
Her face of agony
Her dismal morbid gleam
a shape so desperate - the Moon is full
reminding us of pain
reminding us of fear
She's guiding in the night - Her children
ah! the Moon is full
behind that ghostly veil She hides that ghostly shape
Her light is guiding us - Her children (as wander in the mist)
ah! the Moon is full!
reminding us of pain
reminding us of fear
She's watching in the dark - Her children
find Her dismal light
adopt Her facial form
breed the spawn of night
become one with the Moon
dismal agony, distant misery
I'm drowning in Her eyes and the Moon is full!