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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 near twenty year existence.

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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KFLester wrote:
yesterday afternoon

best: imaginary sonicscape; worst: gallows gallery

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Talibantastic wrote:
Sunday morning

best: infidel art worst: hangman's hymn

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MiasmaRising wrote:
Saturday evening

Well Imaginary Sonicscape is obviously their best. [2]

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renatamenezes wrote:
Friday evening

Hangman's Hymn, the best ever

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KFLester wrote:
Friday evening

holy fucking shit the soul grave sounds like it might become my favourite sigh song ever based on the horns alone

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DEATHINFIREX wrote:
Friday afternoon

Well Imaginary Sonicscape is obviously their best.

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super_ruben09 wrote:
Tuesday evening

Fixed.

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Plummad wrote:
Tuesday afternoon

"having released several high quality recordings throughout their nineteen year existence." I do like how it implies they haven't got that much good stuff....it couldn't be more wrong!

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super_ruben09 wrote:
last week

Ghastly Funeral Theatre is pretty awesome.

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Talibantastic wrote:
last week

thinking about getting ghastly funeral too

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Talibantastic wrote:
last week

ordered the fuck out of that infidel art vinyl

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MiegantisJautis wrote:
last month

"Hangman's Hymn". It's incredible. Looking forward to hear other albums too.

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Talibantastic wrote:
last month

tairano what do you think is sigh's best and then how would to compare this album to that

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KFLester wrote:
last month

for similar symphonic black death stuff touch my bell-end

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slavesgod wrote:
last month

for similar symphonic black death stuff check http://goatiecorner.blogspot.com/

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Yorac wrote:
last month

The mix is really unbalanced... But I'll trust that it'll be fixed for the album release. Sounds quite interesting though and suprisingly different from HH.

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Emtay13 wrote:
last month

New song is lovely

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Tairano wrote:
last month

The sound quality on the album is superb, don't worry. This track was one of the first they wrote and demo'd for this release.

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Harry24 wrote:
last month

I hope so as well

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Driotheri wrote:
last month

I hope to God the production is myspace's fault. I honestly could barely hear the vocals and the guitar the entire time and would be the biggest shame ever if I can't enjoy the new album because of the production.

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