Japanese 'pioneers' of black metal that traverse to post-BM and play a more avant-garde sound currently. Here's a much more thorough explanation/biography of 'SIGH'.
Sigh are a very special entity within the universe of metal, and no band will ever sound as they do. A lot has been said about their transition to a more "avant-garde", less black metal-oriented way of making music, but I think that conceptually this never really happened and anybody who dismisses them on the basis of some jazz or prog rock influences never really understood what they were about. Sigh never left any facet of their sound behind, never abandoned the metallic quality of their core, and were pretty damn esoteric almost from the outset. No doubt the instrumental and compositional skills of the band members have improved since 1993 from a technical standpoint, and perhaps the band did get a little lost a few years ago among the legion of styles they hungered to incorporate into their horrific and existentially challenging blend of music, but there has always been that powerful heavy metal riff, wailing guitar solo or morbid Sabbath-esque dirge to remind you that you're listening to a metal band first and foremost, no matter how many orchestral patches, pianos, saxophones or accordions they decide to throw at you at any given time. All the same, by the time of "Imaginary Sonicscape" the band had quite a few detractors within the realm of "true metal", and it could be said that they had moved quite far from the blackness that characterised their sound until the "Hail Horror Hail" album, roughly speaking. That's just it, though ... when it comes to Sigh's abrupt shifts and turns into unexpected territory, one can only roughly speak of their intentions and the reasons behind the band's decisions to do what they do. Indeed, I would argue that whatever the hell they sounded like, their mood has always remained horrific, disquieting and "black as pitch", even among brighter, bombastic musical passages. I suppose any naysayers the band might have can't have understood their latest album, "Hangman's Hymn", either, as that is pretty much a terrific snarl in the face of anybody who maintains that Sigh have lost touch with their origins and don't play any sort of black metal nowadays. That, however, is a subject for a different review. SOURCE
Scorn Defeat (1993) - 128c
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Infidel Art (1995) - 192VBR
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Hail Horror Hail (1997) - 192c
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Scenario IV: Dread Dreams (1999) - 128c
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Imaginary Sonicscape (2001) - 192c
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Gallows Gallery (2005) - 192VBR
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http://www.megaupload.com/?d=XJD8L7FP - 320CBR
Hangman's Hymn - Musikalische Exequien (2007) - 192VBR
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A Tribute To Venom EP (2008) - 192c
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Scenes From Hell (2010) - VBR (278avg)
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Some EPs and splits are missing - but this is all their full lengths.
if you want particular albums or them all re-hosted elsewhere, lemme know.
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