Sentenced Shadows of the Past 1. When The Moment Of Death Arrives Wasted years left behind as an old man nears to death Praying his lord to forgive him for the sins he never committed The fear of dying - the fear of the fires of hell The fear of living - the fear of endless tribulation The scars of life - the scars from a faceless world The wings of Death - unfold me and ease my pain Death... comes as a relief... ...from the mortal suffering... ...young again... ...travelling into the ageless time Memories of his past life vividly in his mind Feeling himself alive again when the Moment of Death arrives! "flee in the darkness of death where exists no pain no fear; a relief from the earthly... suffering... ...WHEN THE MOMENT OF DEATH ARRIVES..." 2. Rot To Dead Dark eyes meet in a black corner of the earth Hate burns scars within our minds False shall be separated from the true The moment of departure follows time Nocturnal wrath unfolds us... Melancholic silence surrounds... Walls are breeding malignant seeds... The spawn of hate shall be unleashed Rot to Dead!!! Face to face - brother against brother The bitter taste of loss of own ideals Atmosphere of evil, selfish minds in a battle which no-one will prevail Paradoxal tranquillity... Leads the Fiend out of our minds... Raging wrath - now weeping sorrow... But Hate remains in our hearts... 3. Disengagement Darkness fills the life Covers the tired mind like the darkest damnation anxiety, oppression a wounded soul manages to escape from exhausted body, from the bleeding prison disengagement, dark visions, forgotten personality feeling of loss nocturnal suffocation tears like blood stench of decayed alone... without a body life... is turned to hell living in emptiness torture of the timeless into the black pieces of total chaos and sorrow No blessing no chances to survive leads the way to infernal death disengagement, dark visions forgotten personalities 4. Rotting Ways To Misery Into the life after death where all is said and done where sanity is forgotten where humanity is gone Into the abyss I fall Arising Evil is all I see I hear a blasphemic call the Touch of Death is all I feel Rotting Ways to Misery the earth is burning under my feet "Sacrifice your soul for me Against our common enemy... god" Behind the depths of dying He is whipping my skin This is the End... of liberty I am in the fires of evilness Hell's gates were open for me they were my destiny anyone can be chosen to be His slave Rotting Ways to Misery are the chosen one's infernal destiny 5. The Truth At the primitive times when the earth was born Generations came and went lived in ignorance Somewhere in the Darkness of Time lies open the ultimate fate of life 0132 ("Mullan rakoseen vaivun") No one can show us the right way is this enigmatic destiny This way is going where we are coming from The Time has come... 6. Suffocated Beginning Of Life 7. Beyond The Distant Valleys Your senseless theories are rising once again Causing pain within my mind - I'm losing the control But in the kingdom to come Behind the seven seas... Beyond the distant valleys... It's me who decides!!! Your flaming thoughts... ...are tearing my soul apart! I'm harvesting... ...the sow of your curse again! You've destined me to suffer... ...as you were the master! You've taken my inner self... Confusion will rule till I die!!! 8. Under The Suffer First came the wind, dark clouds and the storm Then came the snow which covered the ground white We saw them descending from clouds from the Bloodred Sky We just stood there and watched as they came, saw and conquered This beautiful sight made us blind with joy we welcomed the intruder as immigrants for their dominion like an epidemic Virus that spread over our homes It came like a cold wind and took away everything In the ruins we stood with the living ones We saw them raping our women and killing our children 9. Descending Curtain Of Death Death - Awaking from a dream what we also call life Life is not real - only Death is When the Curtain has descended The Nightmare is OVER! 10. Wings The shadow of wind flees to pain to reality The breath of night now disappears to distance On the margin of emptiness... ...streams pour through an altar! The stars blasted into darkness... ...changing scents, colours! The sleepless face... sterilized by drops of pain... Skies, mirrors, screams... shapes foundering into the scene Beyond my eyes Beyond my words Echoes of empty promises The touch of conclusion Eager to see... Eager to show those who see! No-one answers, no-one is Leave me here! 11. In Memoriam In the dark... in death Eyes can't see... I cannot feel No voices... no light... no existence A dreamlike void surrounds me silence... emptiness... peace of mind... in death In emptiness... I focus my thoughts on my life In death I have the time to think of the past Solitude... won't break my peace of mind Because here I must dwell eternally In memoriam... For the one that once was me Entombed remains A gravestone marks I've passed away... (Sacred... to the memory of myself) 12. Mythic Silence (As They Wander In The Mist) [INSTRUMENTAL] Oulu, 1st of October, 1995 So here it is. The shadow from our past. Namely our debut album "Shadows Of The Past", for the first time available for the worldwide distribution. This album is far from the musical path we are venturing at the present, but it is in deed a fair document from the twilight of SENTENCED. As a special addition for the request of many fans we have included the "Journey To Pohjola" demo from '92. Everything is re-packaged and re-mastered. This is Death Metal! I hope you can sense its true spirit right here, right now... Let us gather our hearts in the dark and cold... On behalf of SENTENCED, Taneli Jarva "Meit kaikkia musta kuolo p h n koppaa." (Aleksis Kivi) Miika Tenkula - lead guitar, vocals Sami Lopakka - guitar Taneli Jarva - bass Vesa Ranta - drums