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* {{Instrumental}}: "Mourn", the haunting closer of ''Frozen'' and "The Golden Stream of Lapland", surprisingly upbeat closer of ''Amok''.
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* {{Instrumental}}: "Mourn", the haunting closer of ''Frozen'' and ''Frozen'', "The Golden Stream of Lapland", surprisingly upbeat closer of ''Amok''.''Amok'', and the thrilling and joyous "0132" from ''Down''. Albeit it has barely 3 lines of lyrics, "Burn" from ''Frozen'' is more of an instrumental as well.
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* DrowningMySorrows: Referenced in "Noose":
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* DrowningMySorrows: DrowningMySorrows:
** Referenced in "Noose":
** Referenced in "Noose":
** This is also the theme in "The River":
-->''What can I do now except continue''\\
''And open a bottle once more''\\
''What can I do now except see this through''\\
''And float with the stream off the shore''\\
''See where the river will take me''
-->''What can I do now except continue''\\
''And open a bottle once more''\\
''What can I do now except see this through''\\
''And float with the stream off the shore''\\
''See where the river will take me''
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* {{Sampling}}: "Golden Stream of Lapland" uses the iconic "world of shit" line from Film/FullMetalJacket.
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* {{Sampling}}: "Golden {{Sampling}}:
** "The Golden Stream of Lapland" uses the iconic "world of shit" line fromFilm/FullMetalJacket.''Film/FullMetalJacket''.
** "Nepenthe" uses "Where's the booze? Flowin' like mud around here!", a line delivered by Al Pacino's character from ''Film/ScentOfAWoman''.
** "The Golden Stream of Lapland" uses the iconic "world of shit" line from
** "Nepenthe" uses "Where's the booze? Flowin' like mud around here!", a line delivered by Al Pacino's character from ''Film/ScentOfAWoman''.
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* HeavyMithril: There are several songs about Literature/TheKalevala on ''North from Here'', as well as a song "[[Creator/HPLovecraft Beyond the Wall of Sleep]]".
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* HeavyMithril: There are several songs about Literature/TheKalevala on ''North from Here'', as well as a song called "[[Creator/HPLovecraft Beyond the Wall of Sleep]]".
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* OdeToIntoxication: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbwgaKwXeYc 0132]]" is an instrumental track meant to evoke the joyous elation of getting drunk with Koskenkorva Viina, its title being the trade code for the brand of the liquor itself.
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* OdeToIntoxication: Miika seems to have had quite a fondness to alcohol, since he wrote ''two'' instrumentals about it: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbwgaKwXeYc 0132]]" is an instrumental a track meant to evoke the joyous elation of getting drunk with Koskenkorva Viina, its title being the trade code for the brand of the liquor itself.itself, and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yQx8UcAHxQ The Golden Stream of Lapland]]" is about the awesomeness of Lapin Kulta ("Lapland Gold") beer.
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* {{Sampling}}: "Golden Streams Stream of Lapland" uses the iconic "world of shit" line from Film/FullMetalJacket.
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* AccentUponTheWrongSyllable: Sometimes Ville's pronunciation slips up, such as in the first verse of "Farewell", where he sings "I drag myself, through the BLUUD and mud!".
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Sentenced, hailing near the city of Oulu in northern Finland, was one of the most influential bands of the 90's Finnish metal scene, paving the way for both Finnish DeathMetal and GothicMetal.
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Sentenced, hailing near the city of Oulu in northern Finland, was one of the most influential bands of the 90's Finnish metal scene, paving the way for both Finnish DeathMetal and GothicMetal.
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Founded in 1988 by guitarists Miika Tenkula and Sami Lopakka, the Sentenced had some line-up changes before settling on Vesa Ranta on drums and Taneli Jarva on bass, with Tenkula on the vocals. The band released their debut album ''Shadows of the Past'' in 1991, which was a typical death metal album of the age that went mostly unnoticed.[[note]]First pressing was only 2000 copies[[/note]] Two years later they released their sophomore album ''North from Here'' in which Jarva took over the singing. Musically it was far more technical, melodic and folky and ended up being one of the earliest examples of MelodicDeathMetal. The album caught the attention of Century Media Records who quickly released it worldwide, and in 1995 the band had a breakthrough with the third album ''Amok''. However the following year Jarva quit due to personal issues.
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Founded in 1988 by guitarists lead guitarist Miika Tenkula and Sami Lopakka, originally under the name of Deformity, Sentenced had some line-up changes before settling on Sami Lopakka on rhythm guitar, Vesa Ranta on drums and Taneli Jarva on bass, with Tenkula on the vocals. The band released their debut album ''Shadows of the Past'' in 1991, which was a typical death metal album of the age that went mostly unnoticed.[[note]]First pressing was only 2000 copies[[/note]] Two years later they released their sophomore album ''North from Here'' in which Jarva took over the singing. Musically it was far more technical, melodic and folky and ended up being one of the earliest examples of MelodicDeathMetal. The album caught the attention of Century Media Records who quickly released it worldwide, and in 1995 the band had a breakthrough with the third album ''Amok''. However the following year Jarva quit due to personal issues.
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* '''Sami Lopakka''' – rythm guitar (1988–2005)
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* '''Sami Lopakka''' – rythm guitar (1988–2005)(1989–2005)
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* CoverVersion: [[Music/IronMaiden The Trooper]] on the titular EP, [[Music/BillyIdol White Wedding]] on the ''Love & Death'' EP and [[Music/{{Radiohead}} Creep]], [[Music/{{WASP}} I Wanna Be Somebody]], [[Music/FaithNoMore Digging The Grave]] and [[Music/TheAnimals House of the Rising Sun]] on the bonus version of ''Frozen''.
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* CoverVersion: [[Music/IronMaiden The Trooper]] on the titular EP, [[Music/BillyIdol White Wedding]] on the ''Love & Death'' EP and [[Music/{{Radiohead}} Creep]], [[Music/{{WASP}} [[Music/WASPBand I Wanna Be Somebody]], [[Music/FaithNoMore Digging The Grave]] and [[Music/TheAnimals House of the Rising Sun]] on the bonus version of ''Frozen''.
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''The Funeral Album'', as the title implied, ended up being Sentenced's last, with the band playing its final concert on the 1st of October, 2005 in their hometown of Oulu at sold-out Club Teatria. This concert ended up being released the following year as the live album ''Buried Alive''. Any hope that Sentenced might one day rise from its grave was crushed in 2009 when guitarist and main songwriter Miika Tenkula died of a heart attack.
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''The Funeral Album'', as the title implied, ended up being Sentenced's last, with the band playing its final concert on the 1st of October, 2005 in their hometown of Oulu at sold-out Club Teatria. This concert ended up being released the following year as the live album ''Buried Alive''. Any hope that Sentenced might one day rise from its grave was crushed in 2009 when guitarist and main songwriter Miika Tenkula Tenkula, who was the main songwriter, died of a heart attack.
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* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Their first three death metal albums are type 9-10, and their gothic period is a solid type 8.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Melancholy from the North[[note]]From left to right: Miika Tenkula, Vesa Ranta, Ville Laihiala, Sami Lopakka, Sami Kukkohovi[[/note]]]]
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''The Funeral Album'', as the title implied, ended up being Sentenced's last, with the band playing its final concert on the 1st of October, 2005 in their hometown of Oulu at sold-out Club Teatria. This concert ended up being released the following year as the live album ''Buried Alive''. Any hope that Sentenced might one day rise from its grave was crushed in 2009 when guitarist and main songwriter Miika Tenkula died of a heart attack.
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* OdeToIntoxication: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbwgaKwXeYc 0132]]" is an instrumental track meant to evoke the joyous elation of getting drunk with Koskenkorva Viina, its title being the trade code for the brand of the liquor itself.
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* BackForTheFinale: During the final concert at Club Teatria Taneli came to the stage to sing five songs from ''North from Here'' and ''Amok''.
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* TakeThatAudience: In ''Buried Alive'' Ville takes quite a few friendly jabs at the audience.
->''Good evening, tight-asses, shit-bellies, friends and foes! Welcome... to the funeral!''
->''It's time to play the last song. So get the fuck out of here!'' '''FAREWELL!'''
->''Good evening, tight-asses, shit-bellies, friends and foes! Welcome... to the funeral!''
->''It's time to play the last song. So get the fuck out of here!'' '''FAREWELL!'''
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Sentenced, hailing near the city of Oulu in norhtern Finland, was one of the most influential bands of the 90's Finnish metal scene, paving the way for both Finnish DeathMetal and GothicMetal.
Founded in 1988 by guitarists Miika Tenkula and Sami Lopakka, the band had some line-up changes before settling on Vesa Ranta on drums and Taneli Jarva on bass, with Tenkula on the vocals. The band released their debut album ''Shadows of the Past'' in 1991, which was a typical death metal album of the age that went mostly unnoticed.[[note]]First pressing was only 2000 copies[[/note]] Two years later Sentenced released their sophomore album ''North from Here'' in which Jarva took over the singing. Musically it was far more technical, melodic and folky and ended up being one of the earliest examples of MelodicDeathMetal. The album caught the attention of Century Media Records who quickly released it worldwide, and in 1995 the band had a breakthrough with the third album ''Amok''. However the following year Jarva quit due to personal issues.
Founded in 1988 by guitarists Miika Tenkula and Sami Lopakka, the band had some line-up changes before settling on Vesa Ranta on drums and Taneli Jarva on bass, with Tenkula on the vocals. The band released their debut album ''Shadows of the Past'' in 1991, which was a typical death metal album of the age that went mostly unnoticed.[[note]]First pressing was only 2000 copies[[/note]] Two years later Sentenced released their sophomore album ''North from Here'' in which Jarva took over the singing. Musically it was far more technical, melodic and folky and ended up being one of the earliest examples of MelodicDeathMetal. The album caught the attention of Century Media Records who quickly released it worldwide, and in 1995 the band had a breakthrough with the third album ''Amok''. However the following year Jarva quit due to personal issues.
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Sentenced, hailing near the city of Oulu in norhtern northern Finland, was one of the most influential bands of the 90's Finnish metal scene, paving the way for both Finnish DeathMetal and GothicMetal.
Founded in 1988 by guitarists Miika Tenkula and Sami Lopakka, theband Sentenced had some line-up changes before settling on Vesa Ranta on drums and Taneli Jarva on bass, with Tenkula on the vocals. The band released their debut album ''Shadows of the Past'' in 1991, which was a typical death metal album of the age that went mostly unnoticed.[[note]]First pressing was only 2000 copies[[/note]] Two years later Sentenced they released their sophomore album ''North from Here'' in which Jarva took over the singing. Musically it was far more technical, melodic and folky and ended up being one of the earliest examples of MelodicDeathMetal. The album caught the attention of Century Media Records who quickly released it worldwide, and in 1995 the band had a breakthrough with the third album ''Amok''. However the following year Jarva quit due to personal issues.
Founded in 1988 by guitarists Miika Tenkula and Sami Lopakka, the
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* DrivenToSuicide: "Farewell", "Noose", "Excuse Me While I Kill Myself" and "Bleed" all end in this.
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* DrivenToSuicide: "Farewell", "Noose", "Excuse Me While I Kill Myself" and "Bleed" all end in this. As do "No One There", "Cross My Heart and Hope to Die"... in fact, at least half of Sentenced's songs are about suicide in some level.
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* TogetherInDeath: "Noose" and "Cross My Heart and Hope to Die" end in this.
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->''You thought you'd just put your head into the Noose,\\
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* BloodKnight: The Narrator of "My Sky is Darker than Thine" is a warrior that wishes to challenge everyone, even the gods, in battle in order to achieve immortality.
* BookEnds: ''The Cold White Light'' opens with the calls of cranes, and ends with them [[DisturbedDoves flocking away in panic]].
* BookEnds: ''The Cold White Light'' opens with the calls of cranes, and ends with them [[DisturbedDoves flocking away in panic]].
* DeathSeeker: "May Today Become The Day" is about a soldier who charges into battle vigorously hoping to die, with his suicidal attitude being mistaken for bravery.
* EpicInstrumentalOpener: "Konevitsan Kirkonkellot" is essentially this to "Cross My Heart and Hope to Die".
* ResurrectionRevenge: The narrator of "Vengeance is Mine" was caught by surprise and killed by a group of people, only to rise from his grave and reap vengeance upon them.
* {{Sampling}}: "Golden Streams of Lapland" uses the iconic "world of shit" line from Film/FullMetalJacket.
* {{Sampling}}: "Golden Streams of Lapland" uses the iconic "world of shit" line from Film/FullMetalJacket.
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* TakeThat: "Everfrost" on ''The Funeral Album'' is aimed at the MoralGuardians who accused the band of having far-right views thanks to some lines on their song "Routasydän" (Ground frost heart) they made for the Oulu hockey team.
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* TakeThat: "Everfrost" on ''The Funeral Album'' is aimed at the MoralGuardians who accused the band of having far-right views thanks to some lines on their song "Routasydän" (Ground frost heart) ("Frost Heart") they made for the Oulu hockey team.team.
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->''[[TheStinger I think I'll just put my head into the Noose]],\\
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and let it all go...\\
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head into theNoose]],\\
Noose,\\
[[DrivenToSuicide and let it all go...\\]]\\
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-->''Well,'' '''Fuck you too!'' ''"Good night" is the one I choose for you!''
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-->''Well,'' '''Fuck you too!'' too!''' ''"Good night" is the one I choose for you!''
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!!Troping me, Troping you, Troping all we have!!!
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!!Troping me, Troping you, Troping all we have!!!have!
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* Instrumental: "Mourn", the haunting closer of ''Frozen'' and "The Golden Stream of Lapland", surprisingly upbeat closer of ''Amok''.
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* LyricalDissonance: Practically embodies of this trope. The music is very upbeat, catchy and joyful yet the lyrics are almost always about suicide. 'Excuse me while I kill myself' for example is about blowing your brains out, yet the song is quite catchy.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Depressing gloom of the North[[note]]From left to right: Miika Tenkula, Vesa Ranta, Ville Laihiala, Sami Lopakka, Sami Kukkohovi[[/note]]]]
->''You thought you'd just put your head into the Noose,\\
and let it all go...\\
and so you did,\\
Oh yeah, you did!''
-->'''Noose'''
Sentenced, hailing near the city of Oulu in norhtern Finland, was one of the most influential bands of the 90's Finnish metal scene, paving the way for both Finnish DeathMetal and GothicMetal.
Founded in 1988 by guitarists Miika Tenkula and Sami Lopakka, the band had some line-up changes before settling on Vesa Ranta on drums and Taneli Jarva on bass, with Tenkula on the vocals. The band released their debut album ''Shadows of the Past'' in 1991, which was a typical death metal album of the age that went mostly unnoticed.[[note]]First pressing was only 2000 copies[[/note]] Two years later Sentenced released their sophomore album ''North from Here'' in which Jarva took over the singing. Musically it was far more technical, melodic and folky and ended up being one of the earliest examples of MelodicDeathMetal. The album caught the attention of Century Media Records who quickly released it worldwide, and in 1995 the band had a breakthrough with the third album ''Amok''. However the following year Jarva quit due to personal issues.
In late 1996 Sentenced released ''Down'', with Ville Laihiala becoming the new singer and Sami Kukkohovi becoming the new bassist.[[note]]However, he only joined after the recording of the album, with Tenkula playing bass alongside guitar.[[/note]] ''Down'' saw Sentenced transition to more melodic GothicMetal, primarily due to Laihiala's cleaner vocals. The following album ''Frozen'' dropped pretty much all death metal influences, and the band continued along this line on the next three albums ''Crimson'', ''The Cold White Light'' and ''The Funeral Album''.
''The Funeral Album'', as the title implied, ended up being Sentenced's last, with the band playing its final concert on the 1st of October, 2005 in their hometown of Oulu at sold-out Club Teatria. This concert ended up being released the following year as the live album ''Buried Alive''. Any hope that Sentenced might one day rise from its grave was crushed in 2009 when Miika Tenkula died of a heart attack.
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!!Members (final line-up in bold):
* Tuure Heikkilä – drums (1988–1989)
* Taneli Jarva – bass (1991–1996), vocals (1992-1996)
* '''Sami Kukkohovi''' – bass (1997–2005)
* Lari Kylmänen – bass (1988–1991)
* '''Ville Laihiala''' – vocals (1996–2005)
* '''Sami Lopakka''' – rythm guitar (1988–2005)
* '''Vesa Ranta''' – drums (1989–2005)
* '''Miika Tenkula''' – lead guitar, keyboards (1988–2005), vocals (1988–1992)
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!! Discography:
* 1991 - ''Shadows of the Past''
* 1993 - ''North from Here''
* 1993 - ''[[Music/IronMaiden The Trooper]]'' (EP)
* 1995 - ''Amok''
* 1995 - ''Love & Death'' (EP)
* 1996 - ''Down''
* 1998 - ''Frozen''
* 2000 - ''Crimson''
* 2002 - ''The Cold White Light''
* 2005 - ''The Funeral Album''
* 2006 - ''Buried Alive'' (Live)
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!!Troping me, Troping you, Troping all we have!!!
* TheAce: Miika Tenkula wrote most of the songs, played lead guitar, keyboards, sang on the first album ''and'' played bass on ''Down''. The man was very talented.
* AlbumIntroTrack: "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Intro - The Gate]]" on ''Down'', "Kaamos" on ''Frozen'' and "Konevitsan Kirkonkellot" on ''The Cold White Light''.
* BilingualBonus: "Aikaa Multaa Muistot" translates to roughly "memories are buried with time", and it's a pun on the Finnish phrase "aika ''kultaa'' muistot" ("memories grow sweeter with time").
* BlackComedy: Used frequently. According to Sami Lopakka "there's always something comical about a man killing himself".
* BreakUpSong: "Killing Me, Killing You" is about a relationship that's slowly decaying and being drowned by external factors.
* CoverVersion: [[Music/IronMaiden The Trooper]] on the titular EP, [[Music/BillyIdol White Wedding]] on the ''Love & Death'' EP and [[Music/{{Radiohead}} Creep]], [[Music/{{WASP}} I Wanna Be Somebody]], [[Music/FaithNoMore Digging The Grave]] and [[Music/TheAnimals House of the Rising Sun]] on the bonus version of ''Frozen''.
* DespairEventHorizon: The narrator in "Cross My Heart and Hope To Die" enters this after the death of his loved one.
* DisturbedDoves: "No One There" closes out ''The Cold White Light'' ominously with the sound of a flock of eurasian cranes panickingly taking off, in a CallBack to their sounds in the AlbumIntroTrack "Konevitsan Kirkonkellot".
* DownerEnding: Being that a large chunk of Sentenced's songs are about suicide, this is naturally commonplace.
* DrivenToSuicide: "Farewell", "Noose", "Excuse Me While I Kill Myself" and "Bleed" all end in this.
* DrowningMySorrows: Referenced in "Noose":
-->''I'll drink the booze to depress myself''
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: ''Shadows of the Past'' is far more raw, brutal, and less melodic than the rest of Sentenced's discography. Also, it's the only one with Miika on the vocals.
* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: "Crumbling Down (Give Up Hope)" is set during the final moments of an apocalypse of undetermined magnitude.
* ForDoomTheBellTolls: The beginning of "End of the Road" has gloomy churchbells chiming in the background, [[GrandFinale signaling the end of the album and the band.]]
* GenreShift: Went through this in the mid-to-late '90s. ''Amok'' was standard, slightly gothic MelodicDeathMetal, ''Down'' was primarily GothicMetal with some death metal elements, and ''Frozen'' was full-on gothic metal.
* GothicMetal: Starting with ''Down''.
* GrandFinale: ''The Funeral Album''. It was intended from start to finish to be the definite ending of Sentenced's career and even closes out with a song called "End of the Road".
* GriefSong: Several, including "Cross My Heart and Hope to Die".
* HeavyMithril: There are several songs about Literature/TheKalevala on ''North from Here'', as well as a song "[[Creator/HPLovecraft Beyond the Wall of Sleep]]".
* ImmortalityImmorality: "The Suicider" is about an immortal/undead man who now only finds pleasure in killing other people, feeling reborn every time he kills someone.
* Instrumental: "Mourn", the haunting closer of ''Frozen'' and "The Golden Stream of Lapland", surprisingly upbeat closer of ''Amok''.
* LongestSongGoesLast: "My Slowing Heart" on ''Crimson''[[note]]Though it only ''barely'' beats the third song "Fragile"[[/note]] and "No One There" on ''The Cold White Light''.
* TheLostLenore: "Cross My Heart and Hope to Die"
-->''Love, your death, Ripped my heart right out and since you went away''
-->''Life's had nothing more to give''
* MelodicDeathMetal: One of the [[TropeMaker trope makers]] of the genre with ''North from Here''.
* MetalScream: Ville in "Noose" opens with a low-pitched one.
* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Their first three death metal albums are type 9-10, and their gothic period is a solid type 8.
* NewSoundAlbum: ''Down'' in which the band moved from their death metal sound to a more melodic gothic metal.
* MurderBallad: "The Suicider", being a song about an [[ImmortalityImmorality immortal killer]].
* PrecisionFStrike: Used to great effect in "Excuse Me While I Kill Myself":
-->''"How do you do? Have yourself a pleasant afternoon!"''
-->''Well,'' '''Fuck you too!'' ''"Good night" is the one I choose for you!''
* PowerBallad: "Killing Me, Killing You" on ''Crimson'' and "We Are But Falling Leaves" on ''The Funeral Album''. This being Sentenced, they're a bit on the more depressive side.
* ShoutOut: "My Sky Is Darker Than Thine" has this line:
-->''Now I know... It was written in the stars that I am the [[Music/IronMaiden Wrathchild]]!''
* TakeThat: "Everfrost" on ''The Funeral Album'' is aimed at the MoralGuardians who accused the band of having far-right views thanks to some lines on their song "Routasydän" (Ground frost heart) they made for the Oulu hockey team.
* VillainSong: "The Suicider" is from the point-of-view of a villain.
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->''[[TheStinger I think I'll just put my head into the Noose]],\\
and let it all go...\\
and so I will,\\
[[DownerEnding Oh yeah, I will!]]''
[[caption-width-right:350:Depressing gloom of the North[[note]]From left to right: Miika Tenkula, Vesa Ranta, Ville Laihiala, Sami Lopakka, Sami Kukkohovi[[/note]]]]
->''You thought you'd just put your head into the Noose,\\
and let it all go...\\
and so you did,\\
Oh yeah, you did!''
-->'''Noose'''
Sentenced, hailing near the city of Oulu in norhtern Finland, was one of the most influential bands of the 90's Finnish metal scene, paving the way for both Finnish DeathMetal and GothicMetal.
Founded in 1988 by guitarists Miika Tenkula and Sami Lopakka, the band had some line-up changes before settling on Vesa Ranta on drums and Taneli Jarva on bass, with Tenkula on the vocals. The band released their debut album ''Shadows of the Past'' in 1991, which was a typical death metal album of the age that went mostly unnoticed.[[note]]First pressing was only 2000 copies[[/note]] Two years later Sentenced released their sophomore album ''North from Here'' in which Jarva took over the singing. Musically it was far more technical, melodic and folky and ended up being one of the earliest examples of MelodicDeathMetal. The album caught the attention of Century Media Records who quickly released it worldwide, and in 1995 the band had a breakthrough with the third album ''Amok''. However the following year Jarva quit due to personal issues.
In late 1996 Sentenced released ''Down'', with Ville Laihiala becoming the new singer and Sami Kukkohovi becoming the new bassist.[[note]]However, he only joined after the recording of the album, with Tenkula playing bass alongside guitar.[[/note]] ''Down'' saw Sentenced transition to more melodic GothicMetal, primarily due to Laihiala's cleaner vocals. The following album ''Frozen'' dropped pretty much all death metal influences, and the band continued along this line on the next three albums ''Crimson'', ''The Cold White Light'' and ''The Funeral Album''.
''The Funeral Album'', as the title implied, ended up being Sentenced's last, with the band playing its final concert on the 1st of October, 2005 in their hometown of Oulu at sold-out Club Teatria. This concert ended up being released the following year as the live album ''Buried Alive''. Any hope that Sentenced might one day rise from its grave was crushed in 2009 when Miika Tenkula died of a heart attack.
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!!Members (final line-up in bold):
* Tuure Heikkilä – drums (1988–1989)
* Taneli Jarva – bass (1991–1996), vocals (1992-1996)
* '''Sami Kukkohovi''' – bass (1997–2005)
* Lari Kylmänen – bass (1988–1991)
* '''Ville Laihiala''' – vocals (1996–2005)
* '''Sami Lopakka''' – rythm guitar (1988–2005)
* '''Vesa Ranta''' – drums (1989–2005)
* '''Miika Tenkula''' – lead guitar, keyboards (1988–2005), vocals (1988–1992)
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!! Discography:
* 1991 - ''Shadows of the Past''
* 1993 - ''North from Here''
* 1993 - ''[[Music/IronMaiden The Trooper]]'' (EP)
* 1995 - ''Amok''
* 1995 - ''Love & Death'' (EP)
* 1996 - ''Down''
* 1998 - ''Frozen''
* 2000 - ''Crimson''
* 2002 - ''The Cold White Light''
* 2005 - ''The Funeral Album''
* 2006 - ''Buried Alive'' (Live)
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!!Troping me, Troping you, Troping all we have!!!
* TheAce: Miika Tenkula wrote most of the songs, played lead guitar, keyboards, sang on the first album ''and'' played bass on ''Down''. The man was very talented.
* AlbumIntroTrack: "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Intro - The Gate]]" on ''Down'', "Kaamos" on ''Frozen'' and "Konevitsan Kirkonkellot" on ''The Cold White Light''.
* BilingualBonus: "Aikaa Multaa Muistot" translates to roughly "memories are buried with time", and it's a pun on the Finnish phrase "aika ''kultaa'' muistot" ("memories grow sweeter with time").
* BlackComedy: Used frequently. According to Sami Lopakka "there's always something comical about a man killing himself".
* BreakUpSong: "Killing Me, Killing You" is about a relationship that's slowly decaying and being drowned by external factors.
* CoverVersion: [[Music/IronMaiden The Trooper]] on the titular EP, [[Music/BillyIdol White Wedding]] on the ''Love & Death'' EP and [[Music/{{Radiohead}} Creep]], [[Music/{{WASP}} I Wanna Be Somebody]], [[Music/FaithNoMore Digging The Grave]] and [[Music/TheAnimals House of the Rising Sun]] on the bonus version of ''Frozen''.
* DespairEventHorizon: The narrator in "Cross My Heart and Hope To Die" enters this after the death of his loved one.
* DisturbedDoves: "No One There" closes out ''The Cold White Light'' ominously with the sound of a flock of eurasian cranes panickingly taking off, in a CallBack to their sounds in the AlbumIntroTrack "Konevitsan Kirkonkellot".
* DownerEnding: Being that a large chunk of Sentenced's songs are about suicide, this is naturally commonplace.
* DrivenToSuicide: "Farewell", "Noose", "Excuse Me While I Kill Myself" and "Bleed" all end in this.
* DrowningMySorrows: Referenced in "Noose":
-->''I'll drink the booze to depress myself''
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: ''Shadows of the Past'' is far more raw, brutal, and less melodic than the rest of Sentenced's discography. Also, it's the only one with Miika on the vocals.
* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: "Crumbling Down (Give Up Hope)" is set during the final moments of an apocalypse of undetermined magnitude.
* ForDoomTheBellTolls: The beginning of "End of the Road" has gloomy churchbells chiming in the background, [[GrandFinale signaling the end of the album and the band.]]
* GenreShift: Went through this in the mid-to-late '90s. ''Amok'' was standard, slightly gothic MelodicDeathMetal, ''Down'' was primarily GothicMetal with some death metal elements, and ''Frozen'' was full-on gothic metal.
* GothicMetal: Starting with ''Down''.
* GrandFinale: ''The Funeral Album''. It was intended from start to finish to be the definite ending of Sentenced's career and even closes out with a song called "End of the Road".
* GriefSong: Several, including "Cross My Heart and Hope to Die".
* HeavyMithril: There are several songs about Literature/TheKalevala on ''North from Here'', as well as a song "[[Creator/HPLovecraft Beyond the Wall of Sleep]]".
* ImmortalityImmorality: "The Suicider" is about an immortal/undead man who now only finds pleasure in killing other people, feeling reborn every time he kills someone.
* Instrumental: "Mourn", the haunting closer of ''Frozen'' and "The Golden Stream of Lapland", surprisingly upbeat closer of ''Amok''.
* LongestSongGoesLast: "My Slowing Heart" on ''Crimson''[[note]]Though it only ''barely'' beats the third song "Fragile"[[/note]] and "No One There" on ''The Cold White Light''.
* TheLostLenore: "Cross My Heart and Hope to Die"
-->''Love, your death, Ripped my heart right out and since you went away''
-->''Life's had nothing more to give''
* MelodicDeathMetal: One of the [[TropeMaker trope makers]] of the genre with ''North from Here''.
* MetalScream: Ville in "Noose" opens with a low-pitched one.
* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Their first three death metal albums are type 9-10, and their gothic period is a solid type 8.
* NewSoundAlbum: ''Down'' in which the band moved from their death metal sound to a more melodic gothic metal.
* MurderBallad: "The Suicider", being a song about an [[ImmortalityImmorality immortal killer]].
* PrecisionFStrike: Used to great effect in "Excuse Me While I Kill Myself":
-->''"How do you do? Have yourself a pleasant afternoon!"''
-->''Well,'' '''Fuck you too!'' ''"Good night" is the one I choose for you!''
* PowerBallad: "Killing Me, Killing You" on ''Crimson'' and "We Are But Falling Leaves" on ''The Funeral Album''. This being Sentenced, they're a bit on the more depressive side.
* ShoutOut: "My Sky Is Darker Than Thine" has this line:
-->''Now I know... It was written in the stars that I am the [[Music/IronMaiden Wrathchild]]!''
* TakeThat: "Everfrost" on ''The Funeral Album'' is aimed at the MoralGuardians who accused the band of having far-right views thanks to some lines on their song "Routasydän" (Ground frost heart) they made for the Oulu hockey team.
* VillainSong: "The Suicider" is from the point-of-view of a villain.
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->''[[TheStinger I think I'll just put my head into the Noose]],\\
and let it all go...\\
and so I will,\\
[[DownerEnding Oh yeah, I will!]]''
