Weirdness this way comes! The new album, Graveward, by Japanese weirdmongers Sigh has to be one of the most eclectic and genuinely fun albums I have heard in a while, so click on through and see what Isle of Strange has let rise from the ocean!
Is it odd of me to think of an opera set in the craziest acid dream ever, when I queue this album up? Sigh are with out any doubts some of the most talented musicicans in the game today, on par with a certain Malmsteem, and able to shred with the best of them. The first track, Kaedit Nos Pestis, is amazingly good, with an absolutely grand shredding sweep, going into just riff city with combined guttural pig, vicious gravel, and sung vocals, It’s a hodgepodge of ridiculous sounds, and if it were an Opera, I’d be there almost every night. It gives you a taste of almost everything they will be foisting upon you on Graveward, and you’ll be blown away like an atomic bomb just dropped. The weird things, theramin, orchestral, brass, trumpets, stuff, just make an absolutely fantastic soundscape, beyond just being a song, and the album just continues o not let up with left field turns. It’s really hard to pick out standout songs, everything really just is that good. The oddly high, modded voice is gaining traction on being addictive, and the monstrous second vocals just contrast beautifully.
Sigh have outdone themselves on this canvas, throwing everything that might stick, and duct-taping quite a bit to the project. It’s epic, and their sound has just become an ice pick aimed with sniper accuracy at your pleasure centers. I can’t find a single fault to these wonderful music makers, except maybe a longer album?? I don’t thinks that’s a complaint, so I give it a 9.5/10, just because I want even more on Graveward. Sigh has completely decimated all the popular metal bands out there, pumping out a titanic album that relies on nothing that’s come before, while all the touches you do recognize just squeeze the thorns in further. It’s endlessly entertaining, and you’ll air guitar to this album all day!
(You will never hear better use of a xylophone outside of Mescalero by ZZ Top.)
Look for Graveward by Sigh on May 4th, in North America!
