Hail Horror Hail

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Hail Horror Hail
Studio album by Sigh
Released	1997
Genre	Avant-garde Metal Black metal
Length	51:33
Label	Cacophonous
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Corridor of Cells link
Sigh chronology
Infidel Art (1995) Hail Horror Hail (1997) Scenario IV: Dread Dreams (1999)

Hail Horror Hail is an album by the band Sigh. It was released by Cacophonous Records originally in 1997.

This album shows the beginning of Sigh exploring their more well known Avantgarde/Experimental sound. 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."[1]

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 best albums of the nineties. [2]

[edit] Track listing

1. "Hail Horror Hail" – 5:07
2. "42 49" – 7:43
3. "12 Souls" – 6:56
4. "Burial"
5. "The Dead Sing" – 7:14
6. "Invitation to Die" – 5:17
7. "Pathetic"
8. "Curse of Izanagi" – 6:01
9. "Seed of Eternity" – 9:19

[edit] Personnel

• Mirai: Vocals, Keyboard, Bass
• Shinichi: Acoustic & Electric Guitar
• Satoshi: Drums