Monday, February 15, 2010

Sigh - Scenes from Hell



NORTHERN WARRIORS#Style: AvantGarde Black Metal
NORTHERN WARRIORS#Origin: Japan (Tokyo)
NORTHERN WARRIORS#Lyrics: Suffering, Insanity, Occultism, Death
NORTHERN WARRIORS#Year: 2010

Sigh
is one of the most original and influential still-active black metal bands; their fame stretches far beyond their home land of Japan. In their early days, their main influences included bands such as Venom, Celtic Frost, the more popular Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath as well as horror movies soundtracks. Having initially played pretty 'classical' black metal, over the past 17 years they have been continuously changing and improving their sound. The wide variety of their songs includes thrash metal, epic tracks filled with synthesizers. and even psychedelic songs with clear 70's influences. They were also amongst the first black metal bands to extensively use the keyboards.


They don't play live very often. One of the reasons is the fact that during recording, they often use a large number of instruments, even such unusual (for a metal band) ones such a sitar, mellotron, or saxophone.

Tracklist:

1.Prelude to the Oracle04:12
2.L'art de Mourir04:57
3.The Soul Grave04:01
4.The Red Funeral06:56
5.The Summer Funeral07:08
6.Musica in Tempora Belli06:01
7.Vanitas06:26
8.Scenes from Hell03:35
Total playing time43:16

2 comments:

  1. Fucking awesome. I love this band.

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  2. i love sigh, but this album expired, :(
    this is the greatest extreme metal blog!!!!!

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