Sentenced call it a day...

General Zod

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May 1, 2001
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SENTENCED have posted the following message at their official website (www.sentenced.org):

Wed better put this out in the open before you hear it somewhere else.

The title of the new album is The Funeral Album, and with it we, SENTENCED, are coming to the end of our road. This album will be our last one.

The decision is mutual, thoroughly thought over and final.

Metaphorically speaking, this is a mass suicide of 5, and the new album is the kind of note we want to leave behind. One last time around for good-byes.

The decision was made during 2004. The reasons are many, and I dont feel any need to go into details here. I will say however, that everyone will walk away as friends. In my eyes we are even not splitting up, but ending our recording career together. And there is major difference between those two. Our wish was always to go out with style and at the peak of our so called success. I think with The Funeral Album we will do exactly that.

Once the album is released, there will be an undefined number of farewell shows. When, where and how many, those are questions that at this point remain open. Intense and long touring, however, will unfortunately not follow, and most of these shows will take place on festivals where we can reach as much people as possible at one time. At the moment it seems that all of these funeral shows will be in Europe.

If everything goes as planned, we will also make a live-DVD out of those last shows and include a lot of stuff from the past on it. Not to mention all the music-videos we have done during the years. The working title for the DVD is Buried Alive.

After that SENTENCED is no more.

And: THIS IS IT. There will not be a reunion, come-back, or any other pathetic and soap-operish circus that seems to be in fashion these days. SENTENCED will rest in peace.

We will make the most out of the bands last year, and hope you will all join us.

See you on the last run.
 
Yeah, I guess I'm somewhat dissappointed, but at the same time I think ever since the "Down" and "Frozen" albums they've pretty much stuck to the same formula and shifted in and out between good songwriting and bad songwriting. I didn't really see the "growth" potential in their sound, so when I want to listen to them I pretty much just pull out their earlier works along with Frozen and The Cold White Light (my favorite newer era releases).

They were an extremely boring live band as well in my opinion so I don't necessarily think I'll be too affected by the breakup.
 
Their newer stuff was kinda lame, but... no, no, I never REALLY liked anything much from them. Some of it was good, but I couldn't stay interested. I like when bands call it quits before they completely ruin whatever they had going, though. I guess we could agree to call that St. Angerism