Heir to Despair CD
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SIGH

Heir to Despair CD

Artist: SIGH
Label: Candlelight / Spinefarm

Release Year: 2018
Artist Origin: JPN
Style: psychedelic avantgarde experimental black metal

this is as weird as the fact that half of the audience who wait for Sigh show for month run out of the hall midway of their performance not able to stand it until the end - eleventh full-length is business as usual, featuring all the hyperactive genre-hopping and nightmarish theatrics; this is their most distinctly Japanese album so to say, where lyrics are delivered almost exclusively in native language, and a slew of Japanese folk instrumentation is featured as well [Taishōgoto, anyone?], while quite varied songwriting is backed up by creepy atmosphere aplenty with uncanny feeling in the air, and three part Heresy suite shall be mentioned especially, plus they nail perhaps the first pro-video in band's history for Aletheia