Groundbreaking Japanese act SIGH have finished the recording of their 7th studio album titled ‘Hangman’s Hymn’ at Studio Moopies with engineer Takamichi Osada. The album, still in the mixing stages, is due out in 2007 on THE END RECORDS. SIGH frontman/leader Mirai Kawashima provides an update on the album: “SIGH have finished recording the new album ‘Hangman's Hymn’ and have started the mixing process. Hopefully it will be done in a month or so. The album has 10 tracks, but all the songs are connected to each other so closely that this can be taken as one track that lasts for 45 minutes.
He adds, “It is turning out to be a very heavy, fast and symphonic album. It is a fusion of sophisticated theories of classical music and the primitive power of heavy metal rhythms!”
The album features various guest appearances as well. They are: Aurielle Gregory (Giant Squid) - Female vocals on the track “The Master Malice”, Tim Conroy (ex-Giant Squid) – Trumpet used/manipulated on various tracks and Steven Sagala (Enforsaken) – Vocals used/manipulated on various tracks. A few more guest appearances are being planned for the album. The final tracklisting for the album is:
Hangman's Hymn
-Musikalische Exequien-
Act1
1 Introitus/Kyrie
2 Inked in Blood
3 Me-Devil
Act2
4 Dies Irae/The Master Malice
5 The Memories as a Sinner
6 Death with Dishonor
7 In Devil's Arms
Act3
8 Overture/Rex Tremendae/I saw the World's End
9 Salvation in Flame/Confutatis
10 Finale: Hangman's Hymn/In Paradisum/Das Ende
Click here to preview a pre-production quality medley of material from the forthcoming album:
http://media.theendrecords.com/Sigh7Preview.mp3
