Category: Album Reviews
Tags: avant garde, black metal, Metal, prog

Metal is the best music in the world, and believe me I haven’t reached the age of 34 to finally understand, that this genre is the only one capable and open minded to be blended with and embrace without any kind of skepticism all other musical genres.

But in times I tend to forget it – and it is then when bands like Sigh come along and put me again in the right track.

So, when you think you have heard it all (or pretty much, a lot) then “In Somniphobia” hits you and you catch yourself listening to the same album over and over again for only Lucifer knows for how many times. Because Sigh like most Japanese artist’s adore the western civilization in its whole and they kinda invented the term “cross-over” and used it in every form of art (comics, music, cinema).

“Crossover” happens when Marvel’s, Wolverine meets with Disney’s,  Donald Duck in his or in a 3rd multy-universe. What is that has to do with Sigh? Well, Sigh, isn’t the typical black metal band – in our example their are Wolverines paying a visit in Duckburg in order to reform and re-organize. That might have resulted to a complete mess but in the case of Sigh it’s a situation when insanity meets genius.

The album mixes black metal with jazz, hard rock, prog and neo classical. The result is a charming full of energy and magnetism amalgam of insanity. I can simply describe it as avant garde. It’s dark, apocryphistic and inspired while it doesn’t lack of electricity. It’s one of my best albums in 2012!

Tracklist:
‘Purgatorium’
‘The Transfiguration Fear’
‘Lucid Nightmares’
i) Opening Theme: Lucid Nightmare
ii) Somniphobia
iii) L’excommunication A Minuit
iv) Amnesia
v) Far Beneath The In-Between
vi) Amongst The Phantoms Of Abandoned Tumbrils
vii) Ending Theme: Continuum
‘Fall To The Thrall’
‘Equale’
i) Prelude
ii) Fugato
iii) Coda

Label: Candelight Records
Release date: March 2012

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