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Japan (1990 – present)

Sigh is regarded by many as Japan’s leading extreme metal export, having released numerous highly esteemed recordings throughout their twenty year existence. Although originally a black metal band, Sigh became recognizably eclectic, taking influence from Romantic era classical music, jazz, prog rock, dark electronica and more.

In May of 1990 three musicians attending the same college formed a band called Sigh. The lineup consisted of Mirai Kawashima on bass, vocals and keyboards, Satoshi Fujinami on guitar, and Kazuki Ozeki on percussion. The name Sigh felt appropriate, as a sigh can express a variety of emotions. Gathering influences from a variety of sources mainly rooted in 1980s thrash and first wave black metal, Sigh quickly shunned their earlier roots as a cover band and began to put together material for a demo to be released a month later. Desolation showed the band at its earliest, comprising of three songs that would be rerecorded later on.

Kazuki left Sigh after the completion of Desolation. His tastes differed slightly than Mirai and Satoshi, favoring bands like Blind Guardian and Paradise Lost over the rising trend of death metal. This affected his ability to play, and once he realized he could not provide the level of intensity the other members required, he willingly left the group. There were no hard feelings regarding his departure either way. To this day, Kazuki’s greatest contribution to Sigh is the band’s logo, which he drew.
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  • _duif

    I can't believe how many people prefer their later work. Imo they went steeply downhill after Imaginary Sonicscape, and to really hear them in their prime you have to go back to the 1993-1997 period. Their most recent stuff can't hold a candle to that, seriously.

    17 Jun 8:00am Reply

  • CoryellsGhost

    I was really impressed with Gallows Gallery. I like it almost as much as either Scorn or Triple-H

    8 Jun 9:34pm Reply

  • Siesta-00

    Scorn Defeat is great. I couldn't imagine what Japanese black-metal would sound like. But I knew it would be different and really grand to hear.

    7 Jun 10:27am Reply

  • NumaET

    In Somniphobia, Imaginary Sonicscape and Gallows Gallery are the big three for me

    27 May 2:24pm Reply

  • darkonyxswe

    In my opinion all albums beginning with Imaginary Sonicscape and all the way to In Somniphobia are awesome, their sound before Imaginary Sonicscape is not of my liking :/ (too much black metal for my taste)

    26 May 8:26am Reply

  • xeMadoka

    Is this the guy who made Gangnam Style AHAHAHAHAHH no but In Somniphobia is great

    23 May 10:30pm Reply

  • BlackfuckinFlag

    I doubt anyone gives a flying fuck.

    16 May 2:22pm Reply

  • PetitSagittaire

    Is it OK if my favorite Sigh album is Hail Horror Hail?

    12 May 10:31pm Reply

  • bvnches

    Somehow... my favorite album is Gallows Gallery.

    5 May 4:24am Reply

  • Emtay13

    Curse of Izanagi<333333

    29 Apr 10:38pm Reply

  • Cthullhu

    Supreme art.

    28 Apr 10:41am Reply

  • NumaET

    V don't feed the troll pls

    20 Apr 9:17pm Reply

  • onestoploser

    Also: Korn and Limp Bizkit are your top bands. That renders your opinion invalid.

    20 Apr 2:34am Reply

  • onestoploser

    MetalicIron: Sigh is not a visual-KEI band. These guys are talented and put out good shit. Slipknot is mostly cliche garbage. They're a one trick pony band. Lurk moar, speak less.

    20 Apr 2:32am Reply

  • MetalicIron

    Sigh is just one of these visual key bands... theyre music is just playing 3 CDs at same time and you would think theyre so cool, but Im not a Sheep. Slipknot just need 1 CD and they are very brutal!

    18 Apr 11:40pm Reply

  • hailmarduk666

    Schizophrenia in musical form.

    3 Apr 3:18am Reply

  • kingcrabbie

    So so good :)

    19 Mar 1:27am Reply

  • UnrealAtrocity

    Check out The Conjuration: (http://www.last.fm/music/The+Conjuration) Progressive/Avant-Garde Death Metal with hints of surrealism, psychedelia, and horror. Free album downloads at http://theconjuration.bandcamp.com/

    14 Mar 12:14pm Reply

  • zinkx

    I love discovering bands like this.

    7 Mar 8:21pm Reply

  • Beojiko

    Imaginary Sonicscape > all

    2 Mar 1:16am Reply
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