Metal Anarchy

Sigh have announced a new album titled “Goh-ka.” The effort will be released on September 4 and it can be pre-ordered HERE.

“Goh-ka” Track Listing:

01. “Kuso-shi 1, 2, and 3”
02. “Jigoku-Zoshi 1: Unkamusho”
03. “Anzenshokon”
04. “Kuso-shi 4, 5, and 6”
05. “Shoso”
06. “Unputenpu”
07. “Jinmenjushin”
08. “Jigoku-Zoshi 2: Tokatsujigoku”
09. “Kushukankyo”
10. “Kuso-shi 7”
11. “Kuso-shi 8 and 9 / Mettaijakujo”

The following was said about the record:

“Japanese metal pioneers Sigh are back with a new studio album ‘Goh-ka’; a new highlight of atmosphere, technical mastery, and meticulously arranged epics of metallic grandeur.

Main-man Mirai Kawashima notes this as being as equally personal an album as ‘Shiki’, both musically and lyrically. From a musical perspective, if you were to place the main ingredients of Celtic Frost, Voivod, Black Sabbath, horror movies and Japan into a cauldron and stir it, you will get ‘Goh-ka’. Numerous additional spices such as psychedelic rock, prog rock and classical music are also evident over the album’s close to one-hour duration.

The primary theme permeating the album is Kuso-zu; a series of Buddhist paintings or illustrations depicting the nine stages of a human body’s decomposition after death, created to encourage meditation on the impermanence of life, the inevitability of death, & the detachment from physical beauty & worldly attachment. It openly shows the harsh reality that no matter how beautiful you are, you’ll be dead & rot sooner or later. And Kuso-shi is a poem based on these paintings. The artworks on the cover & in the booklet of ‘Goh-ka’ are therefore Kuso-zu themselves.

Joining Mirai Kawashima and Dr Mikannibal along with guitarist Nozomu Wakai, are Frédéric Leclercq (Kreator) on bass, plus renowned US drummer Mike Heller.

Among the additional contributors to the album, Mikael Åkerfeldt of Opeth notably delivers a special guest guitar solo on the track, ‘Unputenpu’.

‘Goh-ka’ was recorded across multiple studios, and once again mixed and mastered by Lasse Lammert at LSD studios in Germany.”