''Hail Horror Hail'' is the third studio album by the band
Sigh
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. It was released by
Cacophonous Records originally in 1997.
The album is the band's first full-length release to feature an avant-garde/experimental sound not normally associated with black metal music. A message written in the album's liner notes dictates the following:
"''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
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'' as the ninth best release of 1997 and made it on their top 100 list of most important albums of the 90's.
Terrorizer lists at Rocklist
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Track listing
Personnel
*Mirai – vocals, bass guitar, synthesizer, piano, Hammond organ, vocoder, sampling, programming, radio, effects
*Shinichi – acoustic and electric guitar, bass guitar
*Satoshi – drums, triangle, tambourine, guiro, vibraslap, handclaps
References
1997 albums
Sigh (band) albums
Cacophonous Records albums
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