Sigh - Scenes From Hell
Tracklist
01. Prelude To The Oracle02. 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
Line-up
Mirai Kawashima - vocals, orchestration, piano, organ, keyboards, minimoog, clavinet, theremin, recorder, glockenspiel, whistle, sitar, tabla, tampura
Dr. Mikannibal - vocals, saxophone
Satoshi Fujinami - bass, percussion
Shinichi Ishikawa - guitar
Junichi Harashima - drums
Guest musicians
David Tibet - voice
Barney Kamalani "Kam" Lee - vocals
Jonathan Fisher - trumpet
Zoltán Pál - trombone
Hideto Nagai - trombone
Greg Cossar - trombone
Kazuki Ookubo - tuba, euphonium
Ashlee Pahmiyer - French horn
Catherine Williams - flute, piccolo
Eric McGowan-Slee - oboe
Adam Matlock - clarinet, bass clarinet, accordion
Frederic Viennot - keyboard solo
Rinzo - violin
Takatoshi Yanase - violin
Kyosuke Matsumoto - viola
Koichi Koike - cello
Mirai Kawashima - vocals, orchestration, piano, organ, keyboards, minimoog, clavinet, theremin, recorder, glockenspiel, whistle, sitar, tabla, tampura
Dr. Mikannibal - vocals, saxophone
Satoshi Fujinami - bass, percussion
Shinichi Ishikawa - guitar
Junichi Harashima - drums
Guest musicians
David Tibet - voice
Barney Kamalani "Kam" Lee - vocals
Jonathan Fisher - trumpet
Zoltán Pál - trombone
Hideto Nagai - trombone
Greg Cossar - trombone
Kazuki Ookubo - tuba, euphonium
Ashlee Pahmiyer - French horn
Catherine Williams - flute, piccolo
Eric McGowan-Slee - oboe
Adam Matlock - clarinet, bass clarinet, accordion
Frederic Viennot - keyboard solo
Rinzo - violin
Takatoshi Yanase - violin
Kyosuke Matsumoto - viola
Koichi Koike - cello
Additional info
Recorded and mixed at Earth Studio.Engineered by Naoaki Kose.
Mastered by James Murphy.
All music and lyrics by Mirai Kawashima.
Cover and artwork by Eliran Kantor.
Rating:
9.0
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.Alpha... A cover artwork (by Eliran Kantor) and a title that resemble to a modern version of Hieronymus Bosch. Yes, you guessed correctly, Sigh hail once again from the land of the rising sun, Japan, with another magnum opus in the vein of Hangman's Hymn, complexing the soundscape even more. It is not difficult to lose your destination whenever you incorporate many elements in your sound, yet these avant-gardists know every step they make and Scenes From Hell is another masterpiece that starts as a rock on "Prelude To The Oracle" and becomes rapidly an avalanche. Read more ›› |
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Baz Anderson
Avant-garde Black metal
Mar 12, 2010
It would be a surprise if this album wasn't weird. The Japanese band are back with yet another album of extremely strange, extreme metal. Quite avant-garde and in a few places slightly psychedelic, Sigh remain a band that are completely unique to metal. A fine addition to the band's repertoire.
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| paulo figueiredo
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The second half of the album is much better than the first. There's just too much saxophone in the first few songs for me.
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Lots of saxophone and unusual instrumentation, but that isn't a negative. Great album.
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| Daydream Nation
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Fantastic cover.
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With this album Sigh built up on what they achieved with Hangman's Hymn. But this time Mirai decided to go all over the top with the epic sound. I guess, that over-usage of orchestration and wind instruments was off-putting for many listeners, but I still enjoy this album a lot. And, in my eyes, just for that arrangement of Chopin's Marche Funebre Scenes from Hell deserves a high score.
---- "And we are not who we think we are We are who we're afraid to be" - Lux Occulta "The Opening of Eleventh Sephirah"
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Posts: 4367 Written by NocturnalStalker on 08.09.2014 at 19:00 Completely agree and even though the brass and orchestral instrumentation are excessive here the metal parts and the overall nature of the songs are even darker and the orchestration sort of battle-cry/warfare oriented nature. This and Hangman's Hymn will probably remain my favourite of them.
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Maybe I´m biased because I´m spanish, but I loved the trumpets and orchestration used here. They somehow remind me a lot of spanish traditional music. Mirai took those elements and make them fit perfectly on a black metal album that sounds dark, epic, beautiful and sometimes psychedelic. So so good.
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I've always loved this album. It sounds like you took an old Looney Tunes matador cartoon and mixed it with black metal. Yes the mastering could be a bit better but overall it's one of my favorite Sigh albums.
---- And when I'm lying in my bed I think about life And I think about death And neither one particularly appeals to me
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Posts: 3432 Written by Ryanm123 on 15.11.2023 at 03:58 Yo, thanks for bringing this to my attention! I'm listening to it right now and loving it! The only other Sigh albums I've listened to are Imaginary Sonicscape, Gallow's Gallery, and Shiki. I really liked those, but I feel like I need to be in the right mood to enjoy them. Anyway, I must be in the right mood now, because this is great. Symphonic avant-garde black metal. Who knew that Hell could sound this fun?
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Posts: 1258 Written by F3ynman on 15.11.2023 at 09:20 My friend, please check out their other releases, they're all worth your time. Hangman's Hymn is their closest release to this one in terms of sound, only it doesn't have the bombastic brass instruments. It's still absolutely amazing though, and has some of the catchiest riffs and melodies in all of metal. I would also like to say that Scenes From Hell is critically underrated and I'm glad you like it
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Posts: 3432 Written by Roman Doez on 15.11.2023 at 11:38 Hell yeah! Been having it on repeat today. My favorite song is "The Red Funeral" - crazy good (and I'm pretty sure one melody appeared before on a song on Imaginary Sonicscape)
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