Hail Horror Hail
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Hail Horror Hail is an album by the band Sigh
. It was released by Cacophonous Records originally in 1997.
This is the first full-length album of Sigh's to explore their more well known avant-garde/experimental sound (Ghastly Funeral Theatre
marking the true beginnings of their experimentation). An inside sleeve of the album dictates the following passage:
"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. Accordingly, the film jumps, and another scene, seemingly unconnected with the previous context, is suddenly inserted in between frames. Every sound on this album is deliberate, and if you find that some parts of this album are strange, it isn't because the music is in itself strange, but because your conscious self is ill-equipped to comprehend the sounds produced on this recording."
Hail Horror Hail was listed in the British extreme music magazine Terrorizer as the ninth best release of 1997 and made it on their top 100 list of most important albums of the nineties.
Sigh (band)
is a Japanese extreme metal band from Tokyo, formed in 1990. They are credited as being one of the first Japanese black metal bands, when the majority of black metal in early 1990s came from Scandinavia. They gradually shifted from a more traditional black/thrash metal sound, to a more...
. It was released by Cacophonous Records originally in 1997.
This is the first full-length album of Sigh's to explore their more well known avant-garde/experimental sound (Ghastly Funeral Theatre
Ghastly Funeral Theatre
Ghastly Funeral Theatre is an EP by the band Sigh. Ghastly Funeral Theatre marked the beginning of Sigh's progressive and avant-garde experimentation, a short time before they had on Hail Horror Hail....
marking the true beginnings of their experimentation). An inside sleeve of the album dictates the following passage:
"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. Accordingly, the film jumps, and another scene, seemingly unconnected with the previous context, is suddenly inserted in between frames. Every sound on this album is deliberate, and if you find that some parts of this album are strange, it isn't because the music is in itself strange, but because your conscious self is ill-equipped to comprehend the sounds produced on this recording."
Hail Horror Hail was listed in the British extreme music magazine Terrorizer as the ninth best release of 1997 and made it on their top 100 list of most important albums of the nineties.
Track listing
- "Hail Horror Hail" – 5:07
- "42 49" – 7:43
- "12 Souls" – 6:56
- "Burial" - 1:30
- "The Dead Sing" – 7:14
- "Invitation to Die" – 5:17
- "Pathetic" - 2:21
- "Curse of Izanagi" – 6:01
- "Seed of Eternity" – 9:19
Personnel
- Mirai: Vocals, Bass Guitar, Synthesizer, Piano, Hammond Organ, Vocoder, Sampling, Programming, Radio, Effects
- Shinichi: Acoustic & Electric Guitar, Bass Guitar
- Satoshi: Drums, Triangle, Tambourine, Guiro, Vibraslap, Handclap