spielwiese. (Posts about funeral album.)https://spielwiese.fontein.de/tag/funeral-album.atom2019-11-17T10:45:39ZfelixNikolasentenced.https://spielwiese.fontein.de/2007/08/16/sentenced/2007-08-16T01:45:40+02:002007-08-16T01:45:40+02:00felix<p>during updating my music player, i had to think about which albums to put on it and which ones to delete. my previous playlist was really biased towards heavy and dark music, so i decided to lighten it a bit up. well, at least from the musical side. but nonetheless, i decided to add something more heavy, namely something from <a href="http://www.sentenced.org">sentenced</a>, which was my favorite band for a very long time. i was thinking hard about which album(s) to put on the player. maybe something oldskool from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_from_Here">north from here</a>? it contains the beautiful song <i>northern lights</i>. or maybe the <i>love and death</i> ep, containing classics like <i>love and death</i> (go hand in hand once more) and <i>the way i wanna go</i>. then, there’s the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_%28Sentenced_album%29">down</a> album, my favorite beauties from this one are <i>bleed</i> (to death), <i>sun won’t shine</i> (on me without your love) and the agressive <i>i’ll throw the first rock</i>. well, then there’s the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frozen_%28album%29">frozen</a> album, my first sentenced album after all, and in my opinion still the best one. it contains one of my all time favorite songs, <i>dead leaves</i>. besides that (and many other great songs), it contains the slow rainy ballad <i>the rain comes falling down</i>, <i>grave sweet grave</i> and the (almost) instrumental <i>burn</i> (the pain away). but then, there are also beautiful songs like <i>fragile</i>, <i>dead moon rising</i> and <i>my slowing heart</i> on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimson_%28Sentenced_album%29">crimson</a> album, in particular the latter being so expressive through its monotony. it’s a really sad song, only being topped by <i>no one there</i>, the last song on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cold_White_Light">the cold white light</a>. <i>no one there</i> is one of the saddest songs i know. (if you have never heard it, consider watching its <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8ulTo4s3So">video</a>.) besides this song, <i>the cold white light</i> features some more songs i want to mention: namely <i>cross my heart and hope to die</i> (may my end come tonight), the self-ironic <i>excuse me while i kill myself</i> and the ballad <i>guilt and regret</i>. and, last but not least, there’s sentenced terminal album, fittingly entitled <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Funeral_Album_%28Sentenced_album%29">the funeral album</a>, which ends the misery with the great, even though more aggressive and more hateful, songs <i>may today become the day</i> (as i plunge into the gray), <i>ever-frost</i>, <i>vengeance is mine</i>, <i>drain me</i> and <i>end of the road</i>. so, there’re a lot of albums to chose from. my final decision was to include exactly the songs mentioned here, instead of a whole album. i’m really looking forward to tomorrow, when i have plenty of time to listen to this great collection of misery. it’s really a tragedy that sentenced is no more. rest in peace.</p>