Frozen

Frozen is Sentenced's fifth album, on which they deepened their gothic shading with cold guitar textures and sunken melodies. They refined the gothic metal direction established on the previous Down with greater precision. It is also a work from a period when the band's cohesion grew, as Laihiala and Kukkohovi joined the composition as full members. Opening with an instrumental overture titled "Kaamos," frozen melancholy runs throughout, from "Farewell" to "Mourn." A video was made for "The Suicider." The overture's title "Kaamos" is the Finnish word for the Polar Night, the period north of the Arctic Circle when the sun does not rise. The harsh Nordic winter of the band's home is etched directly into the sound. Production was again handled by Waldemar Sorychta, and it was recorded at Woodhouse Studios in Germany. An accomplished record of cold, beautiful melancholic metal, like a Nordic winter. It can be called a leaner, more refined version of the formula presented on its predecessor. Frozen sorrow and heaviness balance at a high level, and the band's gothic metal draws near a form of completion, with a fine interplay of quiet and passion.