Sentenced
Down

THE REVIEW

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....