Following the release of ‘SHIKI’, their new studio album, the cult Japanese black metal legends SIGH have released a new video for the track “Shoujahitsumetsu”.
Sigh mainman Mirai Kawashima explains the meaning behind the track “‘Shoujahitsumetsu’ is a word in Buddhism and stands for “Anything that is alive has to die in the end”. I tried to express my fear of death through the album, and this song should be the case in point. This is the most furious track on the album filled with my feat that will never fade away.”
The release of the performance video comes just as the band are returning to London for their first show in 12 years – they played on Wednesday 14th December at the Scala with Anaal Nathrakh!
Sigh’s recently released opus, ‘Shiki’, is dark & eclectic blackened heavy metal, shrouded in traditional eastern influences, and marks the latest chapter in the Sigh legacy, which includes some of the band’s heaviest and darkest material for some years; has been wowed fans new and old and received critical acclaim from the worldwide media – a selection of comments from reviews are to the right.
BLOODWAY, led by the Romanian graphic designer Costin Chioreanu from Twilight13media (At the Gates, Mayhem, Arcturus, Darkthrone, Sigh etc), have announced the full details for the new album – Mapping The Moment With The Logic of Dreams. The album features Dr. Mikannibal from SIGH as a special guest. Full details below:
Out September 25th: BLOODWAY “Mapping The Moment With The Logic of Dreams” CD
“Bloodway exist without expectations, and without trying to please anybody but ourselves,” proudly asserts Costin Chioreanu, the band’s leader and one of the most acclaimed graphic artists within the metal field. Together with drummer Alex Ghita and bassist Mihai Andrei, he formed the band in 2013 and since then has been busy refining its style: An intriguing, surprising brew of black metal, psych-prog and avant-garde music, filtered through Chioreanu’s metaphysic visions and life’s deepest emotions. In a certain way, Bloodway’s music is an extension of Chioreanu’s art, and twice as bold: A shape-shifting creature inhabiting a bizarre reality, heavily deformed under the band’s surrealistic lens.
2014’s “Sunstone Voyager And The Clandestine Horizon” debut EP prepared the ground for Bloodway’s first full-length, a very mature work appropriately titled “Mapping The Moment With The Logic Of Dreams”. The album features Dr. Mikannibal from Sigh playing saxophone in one track, the mind-shattering prog instrumental “A Hallow Bridge”. The rest is Chioreanu, Ghita and Andrei at their best, injecting heavy doses of angst and craziness into a polymorphic musical matter that is adventurous as it is undeniably original.
Available as a CD in jewel case, 20-page booklet with lyrics. Cover art and additional booklet drawings by Costin Chioreanu.
Tracklist:
1. Seeding Distance (1:49)
2. The Transfinite Castaway (7:05)
3. Walking Past Near The Lighthouse (6:55)
4. Mirror Twins (4:09)
5. Early Glade Test Pilot (6:47)
6. A Hallow Bridge (5:57)
7. Garden Of Diurnal Fractals (5:33)
8. Mapping The Moment With The Logic Of Dreams (4:51)
Total running time 43:06
Japan’s SIGH will release its ninth album, “In Somniphobia”, on March 13 via Candlelight Records. According to a press release, the CD is “by far more musically varied” compared to the [band’s] last two albums. Put heavy metal, classical music, jazz, Indian traditional music, Stockhausen, and Xenakis into a cauldron of hell and stir it, you’ll get ‘In Somniphobia’. It is a pure sonic nightmare that lasts more than an hour. . . It is not easy to describe its direction, but probably one can say that it is something between ‘Imaginary Sonicscape’, ‘Hail Horror Hail’ and ‘Gallows Gallery’, or rather, simply a nightmarish version of ‘Imaginary Sonicscape’.”
Founded in 1990 in Tokyo, Japan, SIGH is known for its nontraditional approach to metal and music in general and such is the case with their latest endeavor. Their most musically varied and plainly enthralling recording to date “In Somniphobia” incorporates everything from heavy metal, classical, jazz, traditional Indian music, Stockhausen, and Xenakis. It’s a pure, sonic nightmare that lasts more than an hour and an album long time fans are sure to embrace.
Commented SIGH vocalist/keyboardist Mirai Kawashima: “This is your sonic nightmare. This is the music that lies somewhere between your reality and imagination. This is the heaviest, scariest, craziest and by far the best album by SIGH in every aspect. Be sure to smoke first then listen to this with headphones. Bad trip guaranteed.”
“In Somniphobia” track listing:
01. Purgatorium
02. The Transfiguration Fear Lucid Nightmares
03. Lucid Nightmare
04. Somniphobia
05. L’Excommunication A Minuit
06. Amnesia
07. Far Beneath The In-Between
08. Amongst The Phantoms Of Abandoned Tumbrils
09. Ending Theme: Continuum
10. Fall To The Thrall
11. Equale (a. Prelude, b. Fugato, c. Coda)
The song“Far Beneath The In-Between” is available for streaming in the YouTube clip below.
The cover artwork for “In Somniphobia” (see below) was created by Eliran Kantor, who has previously worked with TESTAMENT, ATHEIST, ANACRUSIS and GWAR, among others.
SIGH‘s eighth studio album, “Scenes From Hell”, was released in January 2010 via The End Records.
Loud TV has recently conducted an audio interview with SIGH mastermind Mirai Kawashima before the release of their 2012 album entitled In Somniphobia, to stream the interview, click HERE. For more information, please visit: http://www.loudtv.net.
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