SENTENCED: North From Here (1993). LP. Death Metal.

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SENTENCED: North From Here (1993). LP. Death Metal.

North from Here is unquestionably Sentenced’s heaviest and darkest offering, a snarling cyclone of razor-sharp death metal blackened to a tar. With this album, the band achieved international attention and helped spawn many similar bands in the years to follow.

Considerably faster than Shadows of the Past, but more precisely executed. It is still melodic Death Metal, but fast, extreme, and aggressive, with the first works of Nocturnus and Atheist as references. It's simply mind-boggling to consider how much the band must have worked to refine their craft to this degree of tightness and complexity.

The metal laid down here, though not necessarily brutal, is nonetheless uncompromising. Tracks such as "Awaiting the Winter Frost" annihilate the senses with a malevolent synth intro and diabolical riffing that seems to swirl through the cosmos, sucking your mind into the hopeless chasm of a supermassive black hole. "Beyond the Wall of Sleep" charges through like a rhino in a dark circus with its percussive onslaught, whereas closing track, "Epic," languishes along with defiant outbursts of blastbeats to emphasize the track's heathen admiration.

This is NOT the remastered version, but the original release from 1993.

dimension: 8 track album

label: Spinefarm Records 1993

extras, comments: with lyrics, ORIGINAL RELEASE from 1993! Perfect Condition

style: Brutal Technical Death Metal. Swedish style. Actually, it is hard to find a reference. Epic, fast, aggressive and technical old death metal.

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