More avant-garde Black Metal, this time from Japan. Japanese society doesn't have the traditional anti-Christian god to use as a basis for their Black Metal, so
Sigh did things a little differently, and on
Hail Horror Hail, their first full-length album, a lot differently. It says in the liner notes: "
This album is way beyond the conceived notion of how metal, or music, should be. In Essence it is a movie without pictures; a celluloid phantasmagoria." That sums it up better than I could. I love theatrical music and
HRH delivers; it hasn't aged as well as some of their later works, but I like to revisit it occasionally. The following YouTube vids sound like crap, but you'll get the idea:
Songs of Note:
Hail Horror Hail;
Burial
3½ demons from the underworld out of 5
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