Personally I've finally settled on Hangman's Hymn, I love the repeating motif throughout, as well as its production and bombacity.

I like pretty much all of their albums, but the more avant-garde edge in Gallows Gallery was interesting.

I consider Imaginary Sonicscape to be their magnum opus because of the innovative concepts and catchy song compositions which makes regard this album as a classic in the Avant-Garde repertoire.

I haven't listened to all of their albums, but I'm almost sure no one beats Hangman's Hymn.

Written by [user id=4365] on 29.05.2010 at 19:35

Personally I've finally settled on Hangman's Hymn, I love the repeating motif throughout, as well as its production and bombacity.

I also love this album for the motif - it gives the entire album a strong sense of cohesiveness that is unmatched by anything else I have ever heard. The melodies are stong, and the maniacal laughter heard throughout the album gives it a distinct atmosphere.

Not to denigrate any of the other albums. I also love "Hail Horror Hail" and "Shadows Gallery," but "Hangman's Hymn" is by far my favorite.

It's hard to choose, albums are totally different in genre. And almost all them are formidable albums. But fuck, I hardly can choose between two albums Imaginary Sonicscape and Scenes From Hell.. Both album have great tracks. Music in Imaginary Sonicscape is very impressive, Scarlet Dream, Nietzschean Conspiracy and A Sunset Song are some of them. Scenes From Hell have great songs too. First four track are good songs, and there's The Summer Funeral in the album which has became one of my top favorite songs in their entire discography. So I vote for Scenes From Hell.
Anyway we're talking about one of the most genius musicians/composers in last 300,000,000 years... Mirai Kawashima is crazy, I respect him a lot..

The "choose" part is nuts... The appeal for sigh for me is that it goes all over the place in a really fun and brilliant way. This was one of those bands that it took me a while to "Get" but all in all I just found them to be amazing. I would say the listening got to be really sweet from scenario iv, it's just hard to really put a single album as the best since everything they put out really does stick out for itself in a unique way.

My vote goes to Imaginary Sonicscape, their masterpiece. Although I enjoy most of their albums anyway...

Imaginary Sonicscape... Its basically the only Sigh album I enjoy from start to finish, and boy, its a good one.

Scorn Defeat will always be an important album for me as it was one of the first black metal albums I liked. But the lunacy of Hangman's Hymn is a perfect culmination of all they're previous stuff.