Track Listings (9) - Disc #1| All Artists: Sigh Title: Hail Horror Hail Members Wishing: 2 Total Copies: 0 Label: Visible Noise/Cacophonous Release Date: 11/21/1997 Album Type: Import Genre: Metal Style: Death Metal Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 |
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Ever since their beginning demos and even up to their debut album Scorn Defeat, originally recorded for Deathlike Silence Productions in 1993, Sigh have never actually fit into the black metal paradigm. While the music r... more » |
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Album Description Ever since their beginning demos and even up to their debut album Scorn Defeat, originally recorded for Deathlike Silence Productions in 1993, Sigh have never actually fit into the black metal paradigm. While the music reflected their love of Bathory and early 1980's thrash and black metal, the lyrics, themes, and images were always based on their country's culture, or occult traditions. Sigh were always there to rebel against any pre-concieved notions of what black metal was suppose to be, carving their own blend and brand of distinct music, but always with a black metal flavor. While Infidel Art (1995), and Ghastly Funeral Theatre (1997), disrupted the traditional black metal formula by introducing more avant-gardisms into the music, it wasn't until Hail Horror Hail (1997) that the band completely shattered the black metal ideal. That album, while retaining Mirai's shrieking vokills and the band's ongoing onslaught of old school blackness, interjected sound-effects and completely different genres of music in a cut and paste Naked City/John Zorn fashion. It was a new attempt at making the audio equalivent of a film. Just like in film when scenes and locations abruptly jump, Sigh did the same with Hail Horror Hail. Moving from black metal to classical music to jazz, to sound effects, all deliberately inserted within the same track, Sigh created what they dubbed " a movie without pictures, a celluloid phantasmagoria." Since then Sigh have only gotten stranger, only pushing themselves to create original and challenging music, which they have achieved once again with Imaginary Sonicscape, the band's debut for Century Media and first for North America. 2004. Similar CDs
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CD ReviewsA Sigh can have many emotions/ reactions 03/07/2001 (5 out of 5 stars) "Sigh was brought to my attention through various magazine interviews. The music is quite a mix. Sigh's music adds a heavy dose of metal, but includes classical-like passages. It is very much intense and can provide a frightning feel in the right setting. Some of the songs are sung in japanese, but they still sound interesting and good. The vocals are varied, but extreme all the time. Meaning they are not clean or overly-growled, but they are unorthadox in nature. It is mostly a guitar driven album, but with orchestration on and off throughout. The album is supposed to be the soundtrack for a movie that is never to be made, if that makes sense. The music holds itself up very well though. The movie/album has horror, suspense and death. It is hard to narrow down the sound or pinpoint other similar references. Each song is different and has a strange feel to it. Fans of Cradle of Filth, Igor Stravinski, Opeth, and other progressive or overly progressive fans may enjoy this. Unopen-minded individuals can pass. This album will need a few listens before you become compfortable with it. If you don't have the time or ablility to listen instead of hear, don't bother.I am unable to listen to this constantly. You need to be in the right mood to play Sigh. Headphones are recommended after the first few listens in order to catch most of the detail. This album is worth you time and your money." Very evil sounding.. infernal_ritual | USA | 05/30/2001 (5 out of 5 stars) "Sigh's 'HHH' is a true masterpiece! This is probably their most twisted album ever.. Now if you're expecting this to be like their 'scorn..' album think again, sure they are still using the piano and spooky keys here and there, but this is more experimental. The musik: Oh my, describing the musik on here is pretty hard.. and has to be heard to be believed. lets just say it's more than just guitars, drums, bass, vocals.. also present, some truly scary keys, horns, samplings from movies, funeral organ, and some others. Guitars: crazy. some really killer solos as well, the playing is pretty much kept on mid-paced, and is really catchy at times listen to '42-49' and you'll see.Drums: again this is kept at mid-pace, but these do get fast on the song '12 souls' nice drumming, but if you like chaotic drumming, you won't like.Vocals: I wish these sounded like the ones on 'scorn defeat..' Miria has changed his vocal style quite a bit. not as grim as they use to be, but still good. not highpitched at all.. more deep-raspy throated.Keys/synths/sampling: the album's best part.. totally haunting and will send chills all over your body, listen to the song '12 souls' and you'll know what I mean.Overall a truly killer album that must be heard.. if you like twisted/experimental black metal. some highlights: the whole album is pretty much it. but if i had to pick some.. definitely '12 souls' this song is just so crazy. it's supposenly about a family of 12 slaughtered , listen to the amazin solo and the samplings in the beginning/middle/end.. sounds like i'm in a funhouse surrounded by murderous clowns, also the intro to this: i'm not even gonna try to describe it.. the outro is really nice, and feels like you've just escaped a murder. Also the songs '42-49' , 'the dead sing' , 'curse of izanagi' all slay, but of course so do the rest of the songs.. Definitely pick this up! All hail SIGH!!!!"
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