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Rating: Hello DeRecensioni readers, your kissarmy returns with a record from a group that, in our opinion, is spectacular!!!!
2005: Sentenced decided to leave the music scene, but before doing so, the legendary Ville Laihiala (the band's vocalist) gives us this album…
And here it is, the gloomy, or rather spectral "The Funeral Album" from the title alone. As soon as I listen, I hear the "very raw" (it's really the case to say it) bass of Sami Kukkohvi starting to play a series of notes and then subsequently the guitars and drums: it's the beginning of the darkest funeral of 2005.
The first song is actually "May Today Become the Day", and it carries an impressive charge! Sentenced want to leave by leaving a deep wound in Finnish metal, and so far, they're succeeding! The second song is "Ever-Frost", the beginning appears calm, but beneath its tranquil limbs lies a hard rock spirit increasingly leaning towards metal. The distorted guitars of the five Finns make the songs heavier than they seem, and listening is truly enjoyable.
The third track leaves us a bit bitter because it's a little too slow, at least in my opinion, it should have been a bit more incisive and aggressive. Nonetheless, "We Are But Falling Leaves" is a deep and gloomy song. "Her Last Five Minutes" is truly beautiful, here essentially death becomes more and more incisive, you can even grasp it from the meaning of the title. You either love or hate Sentenced, and it is with "Where Waters Fall Frozen" that you can understand how metal the Finnish quintet is. You can say that the fifth song is one of fifty-three seconds where the group's black metal spirit appears, the song in my opinion is a black hint since the riffs are fast and incessant and Vesa Ranta's drums beat relentlessly "shattering" the drumkit.
The sixth song is "Despair-Ridden Hearts", the intro is somewhat enigmatic and indeed there is only an acoustic guitar, an electric guitar without any distortion, and a harmonica. Nonetheless, the song proves to be beautiful, measured, and with a precise rhythm. The classic technical aspects of Sentenced are not lacking in this record, indeed the five make every effort to add more. "Vengeance Is Mine" is the seventh track of this funeralesque album, and precisely in the second most brutal track of the album, we find death and revenge as themes. The song is truly chilling and beautiful. The eighth song is the only bad one on this album; it almost seems like Sentenced wanted to take back all the good things they did on this album.
I'm speaking too soon because "Lower The Flags" is a beautiful and in some ways progressive song. The piano at the beginning makes the song darker than it already was. "Consider Us Dead" is the following track and I must say, really well done, executed without blemishes, the only thing I can say is that the songs on this album have been truly beautiful so far, no defects from the five Finns. "Drain Me" is also solid, beautiful, with powerful riffs, not very heavy, and that's what differentiates it from the others. "Karu" is a song of just classical guitar that could be defined as useless, but with this track, Sentenced wanted to reflect on their career as musicians, and they say this in an interview given to a music magazine. This funeralesque but beautiful album closes with "End Of The Road" where the Finns say goodbye to their musical career forever.
Sentenced no longer exist but their songs, especially from this album, will remain marked in the history of heavy metal.
Greetings from Kissarmy
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 May Today Become the Day (04:00)
Rain trumps the lifeless ground
Drops as cold as Ice
The doors breaking
The trench are shaking
The fire hits us all around
When the siren cries
Forward, forward we go into attack!
May today become the day
As I plunge into the grave
Let it slide in
All the signs are there
They all think that I'm brave
The strongest link of our chain
But really I gotta say that ain't how it's like
Closing in, I'm slowing down
warren fire, blood
our lines breaking and death is taking
All our men from all around
Into pools of mud
Forward, forward, there is no turning back!
May today become the day
As I plunge into the grave
Let it slide in
All the signs are there
They all think that I'm brave
The strongest link of our chain
But really I gotta say that ain't not how it's like
The fallback calling as the soldiers keep falling
Forward, forward, I am not turning back!
May today become the day
As I plunge into the grave
Let it slide in
All the signs are there
They all think that I'm brave
The strongest link of our chain
But really I just wanna go back between my eyes
Aim high
08 A Long Way to Nowhere (03:26)
Approaching the moment now
Long hard journey in its end
Starting to loom right now,
The final round and then it hits you
It kicks you, it slicks you in hell
All the toil and all exhaustion
All those times we hated
All the losses, sacrifices
All those things were missed
All the suffering and distortion
Shit we tolerated
All that we abandoned
All for this
Our scattered hope fall down
The zeal turns to negligence
The shattered dreams all down
Crumbled around
That's when it shakes you
It quakes you, it breaks you
It kades you, it fades you
Degrades you in laughs
Enough, enough, too much is more than we can take
All those hits we took, persistence was in vain
Enough, enough, too much is all than I can feel
Down the drain
Just bitterness remains
It shakes you, it quakes you
It breaks you, it hates you
Degrades you in laughs
All the battles, all the dirts and victories we tasted
All the tension, all the misery and all the bless
All the passion, all the hurt and all the love we wasted
All the purgatories, all for this
There's nothing else...
10 Lower the Flags (03:34)
He's gone, he is dead
His remains upon the hearse ahead
As silently we wander through the mist
He's free
This is the end
Your journey's over, night descends
Below... Into the abyss
Farewell, my friend, you will be missed
Lower the flags
A good man has passed
He has reached the last of frontiers
Lower the flags
Down to half-mast
For again the world has taken a turn for the worse
He's gone, he is dead
Six feet of earth upon his head
Now lay your wreaths
Upon the one who lies beneath
Although you're gone
In memories you shall live on
Asleep... In peace now rest
The weight of the world is off your chest
Lower the flags
A good man has passed
He has reached the last of frontiers
Lower the flags
Down to half-mast
For again the world has taken a turn for the worse
That mourning light I'll always remember
And these August nights; cold as December
Lower the flags
A good man has passed
He has reached the last of frontiers
Lower the flags
Down to half-mast
For again the world has taken a turn for the worse
11 Drain Me (04:33)
Always pretending to want you
It's so easy to make you play my game
Always deceiving to get you
So goddamn easy to make you scream my name
No remorse, no repent
Still to you I'm heaven-sent
I don't need a reason to hate you
I don't need a reason to brake you. *
Just keep that mouth wide open
And drain me my darling
I don't need to care if you want me
I don't need to care if you need me
Just spread that pink wide smile
And drain me my darling
For so many years I've been faking
It's so hard to keep lying and smiling in vain
For so many years I've been taking
Innocence soiled, hey babe, your loss is my gain
No remorse, no repent
Still to you I'm heaven-sent
I don't need a reason to hate you
I don't need a reason to brake you
Just keep that mouth wide open
And drain me my darling
I don't need to care if you want me
I don't need to care if you need me
Just spread that pink wide smile
And drain me my darling
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By Mrbungle82
"The chorus will instantly stick in your head, and you’ll find it difficult to shake it off."
"We Are But Falling Leaves is probably the masterpiece of the album and shows perhaps the best quality of Sentenced: the ability to move you."
