Accompanied by a stuffed-full five hour DVD of the same, this is the CD version of Sentenced’s raucous October 1st 2005 farewell concert in Oulu, Finland, home territory for the fatalist ice-kings. The two CDs and 26 tracks span the band’s rise from serious, thrashy, death-progged underground workers with a tantalizing trace of typical Black Mark-er magic to churning, Metallica-esque groove rockers rough around the edges and amused to death. The treat is that original vocalist Taneli Jarva returns late in the sequence to relive those mysterious and so-metal mid ‘90s days. The show opens with a spot of funeral music, and doesn’t really pick up until ‘Neverlasting’ and especially ‘Ever-Frost,’ on which the band proves their mournful mastery of simple architectures, all the more charming given Ville Laihiala’s fragile, barely in tune vocals (his between song raps are in Finnish, by the way). The booklet ain’t much, although the band’s wise-cracking views on a human’s last breath is promulgated through famous quotes in tiny type over obligatory live shots. And that’s it, because, one supposes, you get the whole story and all the videos and a bevy of behind the scene stuff (with subtitles) on the DVD version. I’m a bit bummed because fave Sentenced anthem ‘Excuse Me While I Kill Myself’ is casually buried and botched – this should have been a key moment. Jarva opens side two for five tracks that somehow sound more full range and bassy than the snippy, pinched first disc. The band groove gorgeously, but Jarva sounds like a drunken Viking only a few genes removed from cave-dweller. Again, that’s two vocalists that add hapless humanity to this band, but it’s clear that Jarva is even less precise today than Laihiala. What a cool batch of old songs though, Sentenced early on able to mix musicality with note density in a hurried manner like the best of early Swedish death. The rest of the show, although still plagued by a thin-ness in the guitar department, is a great Sentenced singalong - one of them funerals that’s supposed to be a celebration of life, I suppose – with ‘Cross My Heart And Hope To Die’ becoming the poignant pause, although ‘End Of The Road’ closes despondently, its announcement accompanied by what sounds like moans of regret from the crowd.