Japanese avantgarde black metallers Sigh have announced that the band's ninth album In Somniphobia will be released in March, 2012, through Candlelight Records and have unveiled the album cover. In Somniphobia will be the follow-up to Sigh's last album Scenes From Hell.

The band commented on the upcoming release: "This album is by far more musically varied compared to the 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."


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Japanese metallers Sigh are set to headline the Asia Metal Festival this October in China. The festival will feature bands from Taiwan, Japan, China, Mongolia, Thailand and the UK.

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The guys at Candlelight Records are proud to announce the signing of Japanese metallers Sigh. Mirai Kawashima had this to say about the bands new deal with Candlelight Records:

"After we released our debut album Scorn Defeat on Deathlike Silence Productions in 1993, we had to choose a new label to sign to between Candlelight Records and Cacophonous Records. And we, who knew nothing about music business, chose Cacophonous only because they got back to us faster, which obviously was a huge mistake! Now, 17 years since then, we've finally come to work with Candlelight Records. They have a great roster including our mates Meads Of Asphodel. We're truly looking forward to releasing our 9th album tentatively entitled In Somniphobia in 2011."

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"Faceless Dream", the new video from Costa Rica-based melodic extreme metal band Sight Of Emptiness, can be viewed in the following link.

The clip was directed by Sergio Gutierrez and produced by Fernando Fonseca. The song comes off the band's second studio album, Absolution of Humanity, which is expected to be released late February/early March via an as-yet-undetermined record label.

Commented the band: "Very excited for this new step in our short career, it shows how determined we are as a band when it comes to do things our way and self-financed. 2010 looks and feels like the right time for the band to conquer new territories and big things to come our way".

Absolution of Humanity was mastered by Jens Bogren (Opeth, Amon Amarth, Soilwork, Bloodbath, Katatonia, Symphony X) at Örebro, Sweden's Fascination Street Studios.

Commented the group: "Having Jens Bogren working on our new album is unreal. He is responsible for numerous masterpieces: Opeth's Watershed, Amon Amarth's Twilight of the Thunder God and Katatonia's The Great Cold Distance. Having him on board makes us a lot more excited about our new creation; you can't go wrong with a guy like this. We gave him the green light and he is doing an awesome job; we love this guy already. He is a perfectionist and an honest and humble lad."

Absolution of Humanity cover art] tracklisting:

01. Predictable Tragedy
02. Infected
03. Faceless Dream
04. Witness of your Murder
05. Funeral March
06. The Art of Suffering
07. Judge me today...Die Tomorrow
08. Absolution of Humanity
09. Burning Silence

Three songs ? "Burning Silence", "Infected" and "Predictable Tragedy" ? have been posted on the group's official MySpace.

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A music video for the first song "Prelude to the Oracle" off the new Sigh album Scenes From Hell is available at this location.

Scenes From Hell will be released next Tuesday, January 19.

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Japanese metallers Sigh have posted online a new song, "L'Art De Mourir", on their MySpace page.

The song comes off the band's forthcoming album, Scenes From Hell, which will be released on January 19, 2010 via The End Records.

Scenes From Hell cover art] tracklist:

01. Prelude To The Oracle
02. L'Art De Mourir
03. The Soul Grave
04. Musica In Tempora Belli
1 - The Red Funeral
2 - The Summer Funeral
3 - Musica In Tempora Belli
05. Vanitas
06. Scenes From Hell

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Sigh mainman Mirai Kawashima has issued the following update:

"Finally, here we reveal the cover artwork for our eighth studio album, "Scenes From Hell". It was designed by Eliran Kantor (Testament, Mekong Delta, Gwar, etc). We're truly proud of the artwork. This is the perfect descrition of what the album is about - namely War, Hell and Death!

The End Records has set January 19, 2010 release date for this album.

As reported before, it features a real string quartet and real orchestral instruments such as trumpet, trombone, french horn, tuba, flute, clarinet and so on, and it turned out to be the perfect score to the scenes from hell. We can assure you that this is by far the most grandiose and powerful album by Sigh. Also, the album features the great aural cooperations from David Tibet (Current 93) and Kam Lee."

"Scenes From Hell" cover art] tracklist:

01. Prelude To The Oracle
02. L'art de Mourir
03. The Soul Grave
04. Musica In Tempora Belli
* - The Red Funeral
* - The Summer Funeral
* - Musica In Tempora Belli
05. Vanitas
06. Scenes From Hell

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In an update from the band, singer Mirai Kawashima reports: "Sigh entered the studio last week, recording six Venom covers for an upcoming release from the band on The End Records appropriately titled "Sigh's Tribute To Venom." This recording marks Mikannibal's studio debut with Sigh (vocals/sax).

Paying tribute to Venom goes all the way back to Sigh's earliest days, with covers being regularly played at shows. A rare live tribute album was released on cassette from "Voices From The Dark Side Productions" in 1995.

Track listing:

01. Black Metal
02. Schizo
03. Die Hard
04. Countless Bathory
05. Teacher's Pet
06. Witching Hour

Recording Lineup:

Mirai Kawashima - Bass, Organ, Backing Vocals
Satoshi Fujinami - Drums, Guitar
Shinichi Ishikawa - Guitar
Junichi Harashima - Drums
Dr. Mikannibal - Vocals

A picture of the cover art can be found here.

Release for the tribute album is being planned for the fall, to coincide with Sigh's North American tour with Unexpect and Zimmer's Hole."

In other album news, the 8th full-length from Sigh is to be entitled "Scenes From Hell / Tempore Belli / Vanitas." Mirai also reveals that the band will be working with a real string quartet and some brass players for the album. More details are to come as work progresses.

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The following has been posted on Sigh's website:

The long awaited announcement has finally been made: Sigh will be headlining a two and a half week tour covering the United States and Canada this September. The band will be supported by Unexpect and Zimmer's Hole, making it the band's first tour as headliner.

Tour dates:

06 Sep - San Marcos, CA - Jumping Turtle
07 Sep - Anaheim, CA - Chain Reaction
08 Sep - Hollywood, CA - Knitting Factory
09 Sep - Tempe, CA - The Clubhouse
10 Sep - Albuquerque, NM - Launch Pad
11 Sep - Ft Worth, TX - Ridglea Theater
12 Sep - San Antonio, TX - White Rabbit
13 Sep - Houston, TX - Meridian
14 Sep - Nashville, TN - The Muse
15 Sep - West Springfield, VA - Jaxx
16 Sep - New York City, NY - B.B. King Blues Club & Grill
17 Sep - Montreal, QUE - FouFounes
18 Sep - Sudbury, ONT - Jubilee Centre
19 Sep - Toronto, ONT - Wreck Room
20 Sep - Cleveland, OH - Peabody's
21 Sep - Mokena, IL - The Pearl Room
22 Sep - St Paul, MN - Station 4

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Groundbreaking Japanese act Sigh will reissue their 2005 album "Gallows Gallery" on November 27th, 2007 via The End Records. DS

The reissue, remastered by James Murphy (Testament/Death), also features revamped artwork click] and several bonus tracks. The band recently released their album "Hangman's Hymn" in June of this year to rave reviews.

About the reissue, singer/founder/frontman Mirai Kawashima says: "In the beginning, "Gallows Gallery" was planned to be pretty much a jazzy album. You'll hear the discarded pieces along with some alternate versions never heard before in the bonus tracks. Remastered by the mighty James Murphy, finally Gallows Gallery will be released in the form of what it should have been!"

The tracklisting for the reissue of Gallows Gallery is:

01. Pale Monument
02. In A Drowse
03. The Enlightment Day
04. Confession To Be Buried
05. The Tranquilizer Song
06. Midnight Sun
07. Silver Universe
08. Gavotte Grim
09. Messiahplan
10. -
11. The Tranquilizer Song (David Harrow Mix)
12. Pale Monument (Harsh Vocal Version)
13. In A Drowse (Demo 2003)
14. Messiahplan (Gunface Alternate Guitar Solo Take)
15. The Tranquilizer Song (David Harrow Remix Outtake)
16. Jazzy Outtake 1
17. Jazzy Outtake 2

In other Sigh news, the band's song "Inked In Blood" from Hangman's Hymn is featured on the free compilation from SonicFrontiers.net

To find out more on the compilation, go here: http://www.sonicfrontiers.net/php/compilation-1.html.

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Groundbreaking Japanese metal act Sigh have signed a worldwide deal with The End Records and will release their seventh album "Hangman's Hymn" sometime later this year.

The Japanese outfit has become one of the most respected and creative entities in the metal music scene thanks to the versatile and unique albums they have released, most notably 1997's black metal opus "Hail Horror Hail" and the psychedelic-tinged sounds of 2001's "Imaginary Sonicscape."

On the sound and direction of the new album, Sigh frontman/leader Mirai Kawashima says that "Hangman's Hymn" is "thrash-metal-meets-German-symphonies! Fast, heavy, bombastic and majestic!"

Click here to preview a pre-production quality medley of material from the forthcoming album:
http://media.theendrecords.com/Sigh7Preview.mp3

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In 2004, SIGH recorded the sixth album 'Gallows Gallery' but Century Media refused to release it as it contains parts applying the infamous sonic weapon techniques experimented with during World War II.

'Gallows Gallery' is the debut album for the Harashima, and it is the heaviest album ever by Sigh. It also has various guest musicians like:

Gus G. (Firewind, ex-Dream Evil): Guitar Solo
Niklas Sundin (Dark Tranquility): Guitar Solo
Killjoy (Necrophagia): Voices, Narration
Gunface (The Red Chord): Guitar Solo
Bruce Lamont (Yakuza): Saxophones
Metatron (Meads of Asphodel): Narration
Paul Groundwell (Thine): Guitar Solo

This album definitely has the good old heavy metal vibe from the 80s along with various musical influences from classical music, jazz, to sonic weapon experimentation!

You are now warned that this album could do harm to your health. Kawashima had strange dizziness, migraine headache, and extreme ghastly pale tone while working on the 'Gallows Gallery' and had to be hospitalized. That's one of the reasons why it took this album so long to be released.

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Arjen has revealed a bit of news about the project he will be working on in 2005. Here's a piece of Arjen's New Year greeting.

"A new project...

Ah yes... the new CD... You'll be glad to know that I will start working on it first thing this year. Which means that when you are reading this... I'm working! ;-) So what will it be? It is hard to explain, simply because I've only just started. But I can say at least a few things about it that I know for sure.

First off, it will be an entirely new project/band and I fully intent to make it sound very different from my other projects Ayreon, Ambeon and Star One. This actually means that ...if I succeed... there will be no analog keyboards, there will be no concept and there will be just one singer (there, I said it out loud, so now I have to stick to it!). I know I am not supposed to talk about this yet because it's far too early (and my manager Yvette will probably kill me for this) but I really can't stop myself from revealing the vocalist for this project to you (just don't tell anyone I told you) ;-)

The singer is the very talented and beautiful Marcela Bovio from Mexico, who sang the part of 'Wife' on 'The Human Equation'. Some months ago I sent Marcela a couple of basic ideas on acoustic guitar, and she returned them with some of her melodies. I'm not even gonna try to avoid my old cliches: WOAH, AMAZING, GOOSEBUMPS! Marcela will write her own melodies and lyrics, (and most of it will be English). To be honest... I have no idea yet what style it will be, and I really want it all to develop naturally as we work on it. It will definitely not become a happy or poppy album; some of it will be heavy, some of it will be soft... or maybe... aaargh, I'm just as curious as you are! I'll keep you posted on all developments as much as I can."

For full greeting go to the official site.
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