Sentenced's fourth album and perhaps their best, if not most consistant - Down bridges the gap between their death metal past and their accessible goth rock tinged later albums. With a new singer, ville, replacing the old (Jarva) we have a slightly new sound - sounding awefully like later James Hetfield, Ville's vocals are rather fitting for the type of music that is presented here. The complexities of their past albums are replaced here buy more straightforward riffing - this stuff was made to be catchy. Saying that, the songs presented here still have a layer of sadness to them that compliment the lyrics (suicide, depression) and the guitar sound is still chunky and heavy (which was not the case on later albums). This is still one of the best metal albums to come out in the 90's that was both accessible, dark and heavy.
Check out the video for Noose
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzWhK9aBSbE
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