SIGH Graveward 2xLP blackened Japanese prog metal meads of asphodel arcturus NEW

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SIGH Graveward 2 x LP

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(Blood Music)
*** This is a new and unplayed item, direct from the CRUCIAL BLAST shop. ***


DESCRIPTION FROM CRUCIAL BLAST:
      The latest album from these Japanese avant-black metal freakazoids is now available as a deluxe, super-limited double LP from Finnish label Blood Music, packaged in a massive heavyweight triple-gatefold package with printed inner sleeves, with additional new artwork commisioned for this release, a large foldout poster, and includes a bonus track exclusive to this release.
      While the latest from these legendary Japanese avant black metallers might not be as mind-blowing a release as the previous In Somniphobia (considered by a lot of fans to be one of the best albums in the band's long career), the symphonic genre-mashing necro-opera that mastermind Mirai Kawashima whips up on Graveward still delivers plenty of that sweet weirdness that Sigh has perfected so well. Tearing across the album opener "Kaedit Nos Pestis" like an acid-dosed Venom, Sigh's whacked-out blackened prog-metal is loaded with blistering rocking tempos and blasts of symphonic majesty, crazed chipmunk vocals and auto-tuned wailing, weird incursions of glitchy electronica and sweeping Moog overload, maniacal flute solos and pounding tribal percussion, chorus line singers and chunks of psychedelic folkiness, searing bursts of jazzy synth straight out of 1984 and screaming metallic guitar solos, brass fanfares and blasts of excoriating electronic noise, jazzy saxophone and oddball psychedelia that shows up from the sinister krautrock flirtations that pulse through the heart of "The Forlorn" to the bizarre funkiness that kicks in with "The Molesters Of My Soul". The bizarre vocal performance mixes Mirai's strangled vicious snarl with weird throat singing and crazed gibberish, and half the time it sounds like he's being backed by a Greek chorus. Yikes! And though Sigh's current form is still a far cry from the ragged black metal of their early releases, the band still whips up an onslaught of vicious blackthrash riffery across the entire disc, with lots of aggro riffage and pummeling thrash that gets combined with dense orchestral sounds akin to something off of a Basil Poledouris score.
      There's also a heap of guest appearances from the likes of neoclassical guitarist Kelly Simonz, singer Matt Heafy (Trivium, Capharnaum), Dragonforce guitarist Frédéric Leclercq, Metatron from The Meads Of Asphodel (who delivers narration over the track "A Messenger From Tomorrow" alongside vocals from Niklas Kvarforth of Shining), and vocalists Sakis Tolis (Rotting Christ). Fucking killer stuff, maybe not on the same level as stuff like the aforementioned Somniphobia or my personal favorite Imaginary Sonicscape, but this album is still a total blast and sounds like nobody else. The list of albums that Mirai includes in the liner notes that apparently helped to inspire this glorious thrashing madness gives some insight into the sonic mayhem on display, including everything from Celtic Frost to Ornette Coleman to Magma to Fabio Frizzi. Brilliant and confusional, I'll be heading Graveward for some time to come...   © CRUCIAL BLAST
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