Artist: SIGH
Album: SCENES FROM HELL (CD)

Year: 2010
Media type: CD

Since Their birth in 1990, Japanese metal band Sigh has pushed boundaries with each and every release. Often labeled as a black metal band, Sigh’s music has been and continues to be inspired by various styles including 80’s thrash, classical jazz, 60’s/70’s rock and other less categorizable genres.

Scenes From Hell, the group’s 8th “proper” studio album, expands on these genres/influences from the last forty years of rock but this time features an additional arsenal: guest vocals from David Tibet (Current 93) and Kam Lee adding a dimension never found in metal, and the use of instruments usually reserved for symphony halls: trumpet, trombone, tuba, flute, oboe, clarinet, and strings which add an intense, otherwordly symphonic quality to the music. Scenes From Hell is black art metal as it should be: loud, all-encompassing and intens.

Scenes… is also original album debut for multi-instrumentalist Dr. Mikannibal; this sexy doctor was voted one of the “Sexiest W omen in Metal” by Revolver.
Guest vocalists David Tibet (Current 93) and Kam Lee (Mantas/Death, Massacre).
Cover artwork by Eliran Kantor, known for his metal art (Testament, Gwar, more).

TRACKLIST:

01 Prelude to the Oracle
02 L'art de Mourir
03 The Soul Grave
04 The Red Funeral
05 The Summer Funeral
06 Musica in Tempora Belli
07 Vanitas
08 Scenes from Hell