16042014 - Sigh "Scenes from Hell"

Sigh are Japanese. So of course they play Klezmer-death/thrash metal! Yes, that's right. These slightly scary weirdos combine horns, strings, piano and traditional Yiddish arrangements with technically complex progressive metal and a growl that could maim from a distance! It's a combination that really shouldn't work, so obviously it does. On "The Red Funeral" there's even hints of industrial metal thrown in the mix, and yes, that works too! The total is somewhere between the logical conclusion to what Celtic Frost did on "Into the Pandemonium" and the utter drivel that Therion are peddling, but Sigh manage to remain on the right side of silly. A feat in itself, and for this I salute them!