This is a good day for Sigh fans! After teasing us with many posts on their official Facebook page, the Japanese metal masters have revealed their 10th studio album Graveward's cover art, guest artists and mastermind Mirai's vision of the album. The release date will be announced soon.

Graveward welcomes various guest musicians including Matthew Heafy from Trivium, Fred Leclercq from DragonForce, Niklas Kvarforth from Shining, Sakis Tolis from Rotting Christ, Metatron from The Meads Of Asphodel and so on. The cover artwork was done by Costin Chioreanu, who has worked with Ihsahn, At The Gates, Deicide, Ulver and more.




Here's what they have to say about the new output: "2 and a half years were required to finish up Sigh's 10th studio full-length album Graveward, which embraces everything from vintage keyboards such as Minimoog and Fender Rhodes to real orchestral instruments. Each song ended up in having more than 100 tracks and the total amount of the sound data exceeded 100GB. 'Cinematic Horror Metal' should be the best phrase to describe this most layered grandiose album in Sigh's history. Inspired by a little chat with Fabio Frizzi, well-known for his legendary works for Lucio Fulci's movies like The Gates of Hell and The Beyond, Graveward was composed as a homage to Italian zombie flick classics, Hammer Horror Films, and King Diamond. Of course the musical influence is as wide as ever including aforementioned horror soundtrack composers (Fabio Frizzi, Goblin, James Bernard, Jerry Gold Smith, and John Carpenter), and their roots (Schoenberg, Webern, Stravinsky, Bartok, and Charles Ives), left-of-center rock / metal artists (Celtic Frost, King Diamond, The Beach Boys, Magma and Frank Zappa), Free Jazz (Sun Ra, Albert Ayler, and Peter Brotzmann) and some Central Asian traditional music."

What are your thoughts on all these new details?

Source:	facebook.com
Band profile:	Sigh