Taneli Jarva

Taneli Jarva
Born	January 4, 1975 Oulu, Finland
Genres	Gothic metal, Death metal, Thrash metal, Black metal, Heavy metal
Occupations	Singer, tattoo artist
Instruments	Vocals, bass
Labels	Century Media
Associated acts	Sentenced The Black League Impaled Nazarene Chaosbreed

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 other projects. On Sentenced's last live gig in 2005 in Oulu, he joined them a last time to sing the songs he recorded with them. He never lost contact with the band, since the band's late guitarist Miika Tenkula was his second cousin; however, he declared that he would not have come back to Sentenced under any circumstance. He was also the bassist for Impaled Nazarene (1992–1996) and vocalist in the old school death metal band Chaosbreed (2003–2005). He is a tattoo artist at One Eye Tattoo in Helsinki.

Music Style

His way of singing went through extreme changes over the course of years. In the beginning of his career with Sentenced he used high-pitched growling vocals serving the purpose of their Death Metal music, on the albums North from here and the EP The Trooper (Iron Maiden Cover). On Amok his vocals were sort of a mixture of gruff and melodic singing. With his new band he has adopted many Rock'n'Roll elements.

Records

with Sentenced:

• Shadows of the Past
• The Trooper
• North from here
• Amok
• Love & Death
• Buried Alive (live Cd of the last gig of Sentenced)

with The Black League:

• Demo 98
• Ichor
• Doomsday Sun
• Utopia A.D.
• Cold Women & Warm Beer
• Man's Ruin Revisited
• A Place Called Bad