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Rating: Well, I spent 15 euros to buy this album, months after a guitarist excitedly told me about Sentenced.
He said they were his favorite band. I had listened to a few songs here and there, and at a record fair, among many CDs, I decided to pick up this "Down," along with other albums including "Back from the Dead" by Obituary. This album is crap, not in the sense that it is poorly recorded or inconsistent with the genre it draws from, which is heavy metal with various influences that I will describe. This album is somewhat Gothic, with various piano or keyboard intros mixed with acoustic guitars, before the solo or riff that will form the actual song, these are cheesy parts that make your knees weak. This album is melodic, with a voice singing about the imminent end of the world, a bit of zombies rising, a bit of love as the last bastion of a humanity without a tomorrow "No Tomorrow," wow. The warrior of life "Warrior of Life," which I think not even the latest Iron Maiden would write such a banal lyric, supported by a riff structure meant for charts. This album is designed to dip into the wallets of teenage metalheads, full of ideologies, that life has not yet cut with the scissors of reality or necessity. So love, adolescent melancholy, the end of the world, etc., are all fine, but you have to explain to me how such a garbage album was reissued in a Deluxe version with one more track. I hope whoever reads this will not make the same mistake I did, and leave Sentenced's discography to rot on the shelves of some fair. PS: Once I heard they played Death Metal....
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
02 Noose (04:01)
No way out of your misery
Alone in pain and agony
Lay depressed and hollow
One thought in your mind
-No Tomorrow
And then you had made up your mind
and thought it was your time
You left this world without shedding a tear
without hope, without fear
So you thought you'd just put your head
into the Noose and let it all go...and so you did
Oh yeah, you did
Now you come haunting every night
Calling my name until I...
wake up feeling this sorrow
One thought in my mind
- I will follow
I'll drink the booze to depress myself
then I take the rope and express myself
I'll leave this world without shedding a tear
without hope, without fear
Yeah, I think I'll just put my head
into the Noose and let it all go...and so I will
Oh yeah, I will
I'll take the rope, just like you
and wherever you are, I'll be too
I think I'll just put my head
into the Noose and let it all go...and so I will
Oh yeah, I will
03 Shadegrown (04:36)
I have dwelled in the dark
so long that I have become the night
Here only the chilling Northwind
can give warmth to my life
There comes the morning light and brings the pain
...slashing my heart
It goes by slowly and makes the pain last forever
...it tears me apart
I'm drowning in this light
I'm dying, it's so bright
I have lived in the shades
- Make the Glow go away
Come cast your shadow over me
and I'll cast mine all over thee
Take me away, into the shades
where there is no light of day
(to harm my way)
Come with me and we'll flee from this world
across the nightly sky
Believe me, you'll be free
as we take our ride on the darkside
I'm drowning in this light
I'm dying, it's so bright
I have lived in the shades
- Make the Glow go away
Come cast your shadow over me
and I'll cast mine all over thee
Take me away, into the shades
where there is no light of day
Come cast your shadow over me
I'll give you immortality
Let's walk away, into the shades
where there is no light of day
To Harm Our Way
07 Sun Won't Shine (04:17)
The candles have been blown out by the wind
don't be scared, my love, I'm right by your side
I still remember all the times I walked alone...dead
until you woke me up and made me come alive
With her love she feeds oh the fire in my heart
And in her eyes, oh the birth of stars
The sun won't shine on me without your love
...don't you know
The cold wind kills the flame in my heart
...by its blow
She gave me everything that I had craved
through the years of pain
the years of pain
With her love she feeds oh the fire in my heart
Oh she's my only light
In the dark
The sun won't shine on me without your love
...don't you know
The cold wind kills the flame in my heart
...by its blow
Dead Calm all around
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