Century Media
2006
1. Nothing Else Remains
2. Hollow Be My Name
3. The Darkest Lie
4. Rush
5. Nail
6. Raivotar
7. Soul In Flames
8. Pain Becomes Me
9. Never Enough
10. Love Controlled Despair
11. The Living Dead
Sentenced have had their funeral, but here is a bit of hope for the fan who has not quite had enough of that band. On this, the second album from Ville's solo band, he assumes the role of vocals as well as guitar. This one was delayed repeatedly and took some time getting here but the wait is over for me at least. For some of the rest of you, it's coming soon.
If you've heard the first Poisonblack album you can pretty much throw out all expectations based on that one. This quite simply sounds nothing like Poisonblack's debut and to me this sound change is quite a welcome one with Sentenced being gone. Poisonblack's debut, while having catchy songs, was pretty typical in it's deep voiced smooth finnish goth approach. From the first riff you have to know something is different on this album as it is a thick and up tempo groover that's much heavier than anything found on the debut by a mile. The vocals roll in over it with a fairly gruff approach and the chorus is very reminescent of Sentenced. While there are musical reminders of that band though, this album does sound different as it has more of a crunch oriented approach and it really works quite well. The sound on here manages to recall what I really enjoyed about Sentenced without just sounding like a total continuation of that band. This just brings the heaviness and energy of Sentenced to a new band with it's own feel.
Honestly this album is everything I'd hoped it would be and more and should be most pleasing to fans of Ville's Sentenced work. I'd say this one is on par with the work of his former band and it's good to see that though Sentenced is no more, Ville's still carrying the torch for ass kicking finnish goth. Poisonblack has just had a serious upgrade and may Ville keep singing for this band and churning out goth with balls. The biggest problem I had reviewing this one was picking favorite songs.
Highlights: Nothing Else Remains, Raivotar, The Living Dead, Soul In Flames
Rating - 4.0/5
2. Hollow Be My Name
3. The Darkest Lie
4. Rush
5. Nail
6. Raivotar
7. Soul In Flames
8. Pain Becomes Me
9. Never Enough
10. Love Controlled Despair
11. The Living Dead
Sentenced have had their funeral, but here is a bit of hope for the fan who has not quite had enough of that band. On this, the second album from Ville's solo band, he assumes the role of vocals as well as guitar. This one was delayed repeatedly and took some time getting here but the wait is over for me at least. For some of the rest of you, it's coming soon.
If you've heard the first Poisonblack album you can pretty much throw out all expectations based on that one. This quite simply sounds nothing like Poisonblack's debut and to me this sound change is quite a welcome one with Sentenced being gone. Poisonblack's debut, while having catchy songs, was pretty typical in it's deep voiced smooth finnish goth approach. From the first riff you have to know something is different on this album as it is a thick and up tempo groover that's much heavier than anything found on the debut by a mile. The vocals roll in over it with a fairly gruff approach and the chorus is very reminescent of Sentenced. While there are musical reminders of that band though, this album does sound different as it has more of a crunch oriented approach and it really works quite well. The sound on here manages to recall what I really enjoyed about Sentenced without just sounding like a total continuation of that band. This just brings the heaviness and energy of Sentenced to a new band with it's own feel.
Honestly this album is everything I'd hoped it would be and more and should be most pleasing to fans of Ville's Sentenced work. I'd say this one is on par with the work of his former band and it's good to see that though Sentenced is no more, Ville's still carrying the torch for ass kicking finnish goth. Poisonblack has just had a serious upgrade and may Ville keep singing for this band and churning out goth with balls. The biggest problem I had reviewing this one was picking favorite songs.
Highlights: Nothing Else Remains, Raivotar, The Living Dead, Soul In Flames
Rating - 4.0/5
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