Description
Hong Kong version. Double album on black vinyls with OBI-strip.
The Finnish heavy metal band Sentenced was born in Oulu in 1989 as a death metal act. The band released three demos up to 1992 and the release of their debut album Shadows Of The Past. These three demos have now been released on this album. These three demos shows that even at this formative stage, the four-piece were showing an inclination to expand from heavy riffing and Miika Tenkula’s ripping growls. Considering the contemporary condition of death metal in 1990, the mix of influences refreshes the notion of local cliques meaning that Sentenced play about with thrashy riffing straight from Death’s original template, then mow the listener down with more powerful grooves initiated by Obituary, plus a few hints of technicality and melodicism that were rarely combined into a coherent whole. As it is, some of the pieces on this demo feel like just that – pieces, not songs – perhaps because Sentenced simply sewed together the most interesting parts they could write into mostly linear compositions. As such, the style cannot be called particularly catchy even if it remains accessible by extreme metal standards, the melodic flashes of soloing and congruent riffing leaving this with a similar feeling to early material from At The Gates in the way that the listener quickly gets to grips with any heaviness and complexity. The early demos is a worthy companion pieces to the debut album Shadows Of The Past.
Track list:
1. Hallucinations-When Death Join Us demo 1990
2. When Death Joins Us-When Death Join Us demo 1990
3. Shadows Of The Past-When Death Join Us demo 1990
4. Obscurity-When Death Join Us demo 1990
5. Desperationed Future-When Death Join Us demo 1990
6. Rotting Ways To Misery-Rotting Ways To Misery demo 1991
7. Disengagement-Rotting Ways To Misery demo 1991
8. Suffocated Beginning Of Life-Rotting Ways To Misery demo 1991
9. Under The Suffer-Rotting Ways To Misery demo 1991
10. Descending Curtain Of Death-Rotting Ways To Misery demo 1991
11. The Truth-Rotting Ways To Misery demo 1991
12. Wings-Journey To Pohjola demo 1992
13. In Memoriam-Journey To Pohjola demo 1992
14. Mythic Silence (As They Wander In The Mist)-Journey To Pohjola demo 1992