{"id":10493,"date":"2014-02-27T06:11:31","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T06:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com.php72-4.lan3-1.websitetestlink.com\/uncategorized\/cdsentenced_dick1\/"},"modified":"2014-02-27T06:11:31","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T06:11:31","slug":"cdsentenced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/music\/cdsentenced\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Sentenced"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/sent.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23036\" src=\"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/sent.jpg\" alt=\"sent\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" title=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\nSentenced<br \/>\n&#8220;The Cold White Light&#8221;<br \/>\n(Century Media)<\/h4>\n<p>Sentenced is a heavy gothic metal band in the vein of Moonspell, To Die For and Entwine. \u00a0Insofar as this particular sub-genre of metal appeals to me, Sentenced displays very good compositional skills with emphasis on beautiful crescendos and nice musical bridges helping to bring a cohesion to each song by binding its more gothic passages with the outright rocking ones (which do outnumber the Goth influenced moments about three to one). \u00a0This makes for well-rounded songs rather than disjointed odes of inter-genre incompetence that many bands shooting for stylistic crossbreeding often stumble through.<\/p>\n<p>The vocalist utilizes his full alto range, sometimes going to low, but otherwise remaining self-disciplined. \u00a0The guitarist does at times tend to shred a bit too much on the solos (compared to most bands he&#8217;s a fucking ascetic stoic) and this may be a problem for anyone more into the Gothic side of things than the metal and they may wish to avoid this album like a weekend get away at Metal Camp with Sebastian Bach.<\/p>\n<p>This album might not be a bad buy for fans of the newer Metallica shit. \u00a0There are elements of thrash metal&#8217;s pioneer&#8217;s latest works in some of the guitar licks and the drummer seems clearly influenced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sentenced &#8220;The Cold White Light&#8221; (Century Media) Sentenced is a heavy gothic metal band in the vein of Moonspell, To Die For and Entwine. \u00a0Insofar as this particular sub-genre of metal appeals to me, Sentenced displays very good compositional skills with emphasis on beautiful crescendos and nice musical bridges helping to bring a cohesion to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23036,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18],"tags":[1353,3603,6344],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}