Sigh - Aletheia

[@rjkilla84]

It's crazy they aren't more well known. It's just so well put together

[@earthshake1402]

This band is criminally underrated. Not even big into metal anymore, yet I still like to give them a listen.

[@divinefallfromgrace]

Fuck me. Sigh, going since 1990, constantly shifting sound, constantly sounding like nothing else, constantly writing interesting pieces of music. Legends. Hail the Horror!

[@gooddoingo]

This is the first Sigh song I played for my crush, who knew nothing about metal 4 days before, simply with this introduction: "One of my absolute favorite bands. So many influences, often dreamlike and otherworldly. The following track transforms an oriental cliché to something else entirely. Pure alchemy." She loved it. Well, I must say that she was far much more than a crush.

[@Nic-rl8po]

Hope everything worked out Yves. Rock on man

[@divinefallfromgrace]

Now THERE'S a woman 'to walk the hills with'. Nice one 👍🏻

[@kenosisaeternumprj]

Clever Move lol

[@nicolasreny221]

Updates?

[@deadmanwithpitchforkarms8376]

I don't think I ever heard this kind of japanese folk music implemented so well in a metal context. Really good album!

[@kdonsky6]

Sigh is one of the greatest Japanese metal bands of all time. They were signed to Euronymous record label in the beginning of black metal in the 90's.

[@slashinghades7347]

There is actually very little Japanese folk elements here. They are utilizing more western and middle eastern Folk instruments and the lead riff has a very Indian sound to it.

[@deadmanwithpitchforkarms8376]

Yeah, if someone with a anime chick avatar answers you telling something isn't japanese, they're probably right

[@slashinghades7347]

@@deadmanwithpitchforkarms8376 I'm just saying that the folk instrumentation on this album has a ton of influence from Indian and Middle Eastern music alongside more Western influence to the point it where sounds like black metal meets Jethro Tull. Then again it is Sigh and they somehow manage to mash various music styles together very well. Their album In Somniphobia is a very jazzy album whereas Gallows Gallery was very psychedelic. Point is they are very unpredictable with their songwriting, which in my opinion, makes them fresh every time they release new material.

[@deadmanwithpitchforkarms8376]

@@slashinghades7347 lol no problem dude, chill out

[@АндрейТоковенко-п2т]

Забойная музыка!

[@justs_]

Heir to Despair might just be the most Japanese sounding Sigh has ever been, kinda dig it ngl, hope their next album keeps that up

[@jesblack7033]

What a magnificent ending!

[@jesperjohansson6959]

These guys are looking and performing as great as ever!

[@obsidiansnow3790]

No matter what album is, they always just sound like Sigh. I love it

[@SenseiBerial]

holy shit what a find, I can't get my head around this piece

[@earthshake1402]

How is this band so underrated? I'm not even big into metal anymore, but I still come back to their music.

[@andrzejduda2706]

How dare you not be into metal anymore. Once a metalhead, forever a metalhead!!

[@juvenilemale160]

This is friggin awesomesauce, easily one of the best to be on this planet

[@heiscris]

Best album of the year

[@somelettersnumbers]

i love their earlier more black metal sounding stuff but their entire discography is amazing

[@UrzRulez]

What a masterpiece ❤️

[@MitchellGwr]

This is it, Chief.

[@walfar5726]

Amazing ! Underrated band

[@MagnumEvolved]

Oh mannnn that was an experience

[@ronaldnock9666]

Love this!

[@halloweenlett9971]

Fuck me with this band. Heir to despair on vinyl is like the divine comedy x milton’s paradise lost if they had some sort of beautiful literature soundtrack baby

[@publius5128]

Great! Just wish it was a video for Hands of the String Puller. The flute in that song blows me away.

[@rieyasu713]

Amazin! Cheers from Brazil.

[@JustinAngel]

Really digging this new Jethro Tull!

[@JackWareingFilms]

I like In 'Somniphobia' and 'Scenes from Hell' very much. But, I think 'Heir to Despair' is Sigh's best Album/CD yet! Yea 'Aletheia' is a very cool song, but the whole Album/CD 'HEIR TO DESPAIR' is actually extremely cool, and highly recommended, and is probably my favorite Sigh Album/CD ever.

[@frankey10]

All of Heir to Despair is bitchinnn

[@zaramot2796]

Шикарное музло)Отличные фолковые мотивы!!))

[@SpikeSpiegel96]

У них еще классные джазовые,электронные, средневековые и оркестровые треки🙃Люблю авангард, всегда что-то новое, но все равно узнаваемо. Если нужно что-то подобное, но полегче Diablo Swing Orchestra. У них все же ближе к пауэр металу, чем к блэку. Rabbit Junk индастриал метал, где в определённых альбомах 3 песни могли быть смесью одного, а затем другие 3 были смесью другого. Но до Sigh и DSO по уровню техники в разы слабее

[@Nordicwarrior]

Come to Boston!

[@hpjx]

Ahhh esta con madre. Chingona

[@VivalarevolucionFCKNZS]

In order to make sure of these memories Shut away, connecting... The moments of the newly-etched future and past We watched these together The never-ending promise that I can't forget Exists vividly in this world even now If you want a miracle, it's right in front of your eyes: We were able to meet again We place our dreams upon the feathers that dance in the sky Our own personal Aletheia (We) can fly off anywhere Embrace those shining chains These fading memories Lead the two of us in far-off days The voice of (my) heart That (was) awoke(n by) a subtle warmth I want to convey all of it to you If you want a reason for why you go on living It's because I always create it If you want a miracle, it's always beside you Because we took each other's hands When we looked up at the feathers that dance in the sky Our hearts raced... Aletheia Because if I'm with you, I go anywhere without Losing my way in the darkness *Like the light that we both seek The pain is melted away* You felt the feathers that dance in the sky Our own personal Aletheia We can fly away anywhere Embracing those shining chains Always together

[@BatteryAcidEater]

Thank yoy

[@TheGreatGodPan]

They really went full prog on this, amazing stuff. Still waiting for new Kadenzza, though :(

[@elpentagramainvertido2979]

Psychedelic!!!

[@felipeabreu2176]

awsome and fantastic

[@everettatkepgroovin]

Sick

[@Kamain]

Stunning

[@molotovbatradio]

🔥🔥🔥

[@lephuongnguyen3884]

Great

[@juanbonno4421]

merci maxwell!

[@maricarhernandez3786]

Sigh in vevo. I thought they sell out. But they didnt.

[@michaelperry6641]

🤘❤️🤘

[@dlimmel]

Sigh has returned to the sonic, gallows gallery sound! Thanks for this, leave that bland death metal behind and more sax solos please!

[@Runny117]

reading the lords of chaos book brought me here. I love this, but Euronymous would no doubt be spinning in his grave lmao

[@KriztofferSwank]

Glad to hear a US release of a new Sigh album that doesn't sound like junk, unlike everything since Imaginary Sonicscape. (Good thing for the overseas remasters.) Happy you got Maor Appelbaum to master it. Any chance of getting him to redo Hangman's Hymn? Gotta keep fixing what James Murphy ruined.

[@lostparadise4611]

実にどうでもいい事かも知れないけど 何故か最後までBassの藤並さんだけ顔を映されなかった・・・

[@Agte1234]

Dead Man...Japanese folk music implemented so well in a metal context also with a Greek song's name.. Haha total weird..."Aletheia/Αλήθεια" means "Truth"

[@aspie182]

Sigh's best album since Scenario IV. This whole album is a testament to the fact that when you send any piece of culture to Japan, Japan will ramp up what it is really about and send it back. Sigh proves that doom and black metal are the pinnacles of Human artistic achievement. Moar albums like Heir To Despair pretty please, Sigh.

[@survivorturnover]

holy molly bruh

[@MrYodi93]

Man jasad from japan

[@connie_d]

Absolute legends Always deserved to do better than they do Mirai, gimme your paypal

[@connie_d]

I do miss the original rawness tho Still, not complaining

[@PierreTheCore55]

Dammmn, they've changed a lot ..... Doesn't sounds anymore like Hangman's Hymn album ....

[@gougoule1512]

Well their discography is a mess. To me that last album surprisingly sounds "like Sigh", and the two weirdest ones might be Gallow's Gallery and Hangman's Hymn.

[@chufa72]

They should tour with The Hu!

[@VivalarevolucionFCKNZS]

Aletheia means truth in greek, just sayin. Αλήθεια

[@dionfebrian2940]

Beep beep

[@blueeyesgreekdragon]

Boop boop

[@TheGreatGodPan]

It's only seeing this video you realise the harsh vocals are Mikannibal, they sound uncannily like Mirai's on older Sigh albums. Perhaps he's getting a bit tired of screaming.

[@mikaelnippers7189]

Mirai said in an interview that Dr. Mikannibal is actually not on the recording. Your theory would have been way cooler though ;) www.echoesanddust.com/2019/01/mirai-kawashima-from-sigh/

[@ValAlejandroRelato-xs2xw]

Sigh Band - Naruto Theme Song

[@ValAlejandroRelato-xs2xw]

Aletheia

[@ValAlejandroRelato-xs2xw]

Aletheia

[@SignOfTheWarrior]

There we have is. 666 Likes on 2019-08-04, at 22:32.

[@Goreface69]

This one totally reminds me of Tengger Cavalry

[@BlackNabastak]

Their music is always vivid but the videos are usually kinda dull.

[@leonelpolo9808]

👹

[@deanjustdean7818]

Sigh's best song, and that is saying a shit-ton. This is proof of how awesome doom and black are. I was having a conversation once about manga, and one of the other men told me that the Japanese take things from Western culture, ramp up the elements that stand out to them, put a uniquely Japanese twist on it, and then send it back. The sexualisation of women in comic books gets weird and bemusing in manga, for example. This is what doom and black becomes in the hands of the Japanese, and it is absolutely glorious. The only thing I can fault in Aletheia is that Mirai missed one thing about Humanity. We do not fear for the truth. We are afraid OF the truth.