Friday 5: The Sigh Of The Beholder

Happy Friday, MetalSucks reader! Welcome to MetalSucks Friday 5, our awesome series that appears every Friday (duh) on MetalSucks (duhh) and involves the quantity of five (duhhh).

Here’s how it works: A list of best/worst/weirdest/whatever five somethings is posted by one of your beloved MetalSucks contributors or by one of our buds (like you?). Then you, our cherished reader, checks it out, has a chuckle, then chimes in with a list of the same. No sweat, just whatever springs to mind, k? (Just like that movie about those losers working at a Chicago record store!) After all, it’s Friday — the day dedicated by the gods to mindless, fun time-wasting. 

Last week we arrived in Japan. Today let’s stick around for one of their weirdest! And that’s saying something!

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THE FIVE

Five Moments When You Can’t Tell Sigh Is A Metal Band. Go! 

THE LISTER

Leyla Ford, MetalSucks contributor

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https://youtu.be/uRQ9l2NPaV8

1. “Far Beneath the In-Between”
from In Somniphobia | Candlelight
2012

It was announced a couple weeks ago that Sigh’s new album comes out in about a month. That’s exciting, as Sigh seamlessly blends so many varied, nuanced, and outright weird elements that they create a a totally unique style of psychedelic metal. But if you isolate parts of certain Sigh songs, you could trick anyone into thinking they are not at all a metal band — just based on those snippets — let alone the bloody avant black metal band they are. So what are the best five times that Sigh pranks you into the certainty that they’re a different sort of group? Let’s start at 5:39 of , you get what sounds like a horribly depressed accordionist’s last wail. Then that trails off into a classic piano concerto. Then back to accordion.

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https://youtu.be/v_v_IBrjvjM

2. “L’excommunication a Minuit”
from In Somniphobia (Candlelight)
2012

5:09 — The sequel to “Monster Mash” with aliens and music boxes for emphasis.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzEHCCLeoN0

3. “L’art De Mourir”
from Scenes From Hell (The End)
2010

At 0:49, it’s big band time at the carnival.

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4. “A Sunset Song”
From Imaginary Sonicscape (Century Media)
2001

Every second of this just seems like the happiest walk in the park you could take in a video game. 

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https://youtu.be/1gN4YMyqzBg

5. “Musica In Tempora Belli”
from Scenes From Hell (The End)
2010

4:13 — What? This is a straight up jazz band. That happens to be in a real hurry.

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Happy Friday! Your turn :)