Metal bands from Finland - S

In 1989, guitarists Miika Tenkula and Sami Lopakka and the drummer Vesa Ranta joined forces to create a death metal band called Sentenced.
They debuted a year later with the demo "When Death Joins Us..." which lead to a contract and a first album called "Shadows Of The Past".
During the course they developed different albums each with their distinct style in the death metal genre.
In 1996 they changed their vocalist from Taneli Jarva to Ville Laihiala and with it came a new style, away from death metal more focused on melodic metal. Their albums "Down", "Frozen", "Crimson" and "The Cold White Light" were all a success.
But Sentenced is no more. The band members planned the end of Sentenced with an album called "The Funeral Album" and it was released in 2005.

Sethian was founded in 1998 when Tapio Wilska and Jussi Koponen decided they wanted to continue making music together after their band split. Together with other members like Jukka Nevalainen from Nightwish, they released 1 album so far.
The progress in making music is slow due to the main bands of the Sethian members. Bands like Nightwish (Jukka Nevalainen) and Finntroll (Tapio Wilska) have tight schedules making it hard for Sethian to exist and release music.