Amok is the third album by the Finnish metal

Heavy metal music

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 band Sentenced

Sentenced

Sentenced was a Finnish heavy metal band that played melodic death metal in their early years. The band formed in 1989, in the town of Muhos, Finland, and broke up in 2005.-Early years :...

. It is also the last album with Taneli Jarva. The album was released through Century Media Records

Century Media Records

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 in 1995. It showed further departure from the band's early death metal

Death metal

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 stylings.

The lyrics are a mixture of melancholy, mythology

Mythology

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 and suicidal themes.

Track listing

Japanese Bonus Tracks
10. Dreamlands
11. Obsession

Credits

• Taneli Jarva
  Taneli Jarva
  Taneli Jarva is a Finnish musician. Currently, he is the vocalist for The Black League, which he formed in 1998. He is best known as vocalist/bassist in Sentenced, which he left in 1995 because he did not like the melodic direction the band were heading into, and therefore decided to move on to...
  
   - Vocals/Bass
• Miika Tenkula
  Miika Tenkula
  Miika Tenkula was a Finnish heavy metal musician. He was the lead guitarist and the main songwriter for the band Sentenced until it disbanded. He was also the band's original vocalist from 1989 to late 1992.-Death:...
  
   - Guitar
• Sami Lopakka
  Sami Lopakka
  Sami Lopakka is a Finnish guitarist. Lopakka was one of two guitarists for the band Sentenced until it disbanded. Lopakka was the band's main lyric writer and was also considered the spokesman for the band. Since 2007 he is once again active in KYPCK....
  
   - Guitar
• Vesa Ranta
  Vesa Ranta
  Vesa Ranta is a Finnish drummer. He was one of the original members of the band Sentenced. and has formed a new band named The Man Eating Tree. He is also a fine art photographer and owner of the Nuclear Nightclub live music club and bar in downtown Oulu....
  
  - Drums