History Music / Sigh

* ViewerGenderConfusion: A listener could be excused for thinking Dr. Mikannibal's shrieks were performed by a man. They're actually lower-pitched than Mirai's a lot of the time!

* CoverVersion: Sigh have covered Music/{{Venom}} (quite a lot of Venom too, someone in the band must really like them), Necrophagia (not surprising as Mirai was a member of that band for at least one album), John Coltrane, and [[{{Music/Death}} Death]].

* CreatorCouple: Mirai and Mikannibal, although the latter is a fairly recent addition to the band.

* ExecutiveMeddling: Century Media refused to release ''Gallows Gallery'' because they were expecting a more BlackMetal-oriented album. The band initially tried to hide this by spreading a rumor that CM dropped them because of the album's hidden track, which was supposedly created using WorldWarTwo-era "sonic weaponry" technology and intended to psychologically harm the listener.

'''Sigh''' is a BlackMetal band from Japan, maybe the first ever from that country, which formed in Tokyo in 1990. They were somewhat well-known among the black metal scene in the early 1990s for being signed to Deathlike Silence Productions, the record label of {{Mayhem}} guitarist Euronymous. Beginning as a fairly straightforward BlackMetal band, they soon began to [[NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly experiment with their sound a bit]], settling on a hybrid of BlackMetal, ThrashMetal, and SymphonicMetal for ''Hangman's Hymn'' and ''Scenes from Hell''. ''In Somniphobia'' goes back to the GenreRoulette of previous works.

* ''Scenario IV: Dead Dreams'' (1999; their fifth major release but fourth full-length, hence the "IV")

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'''Sigh''' is a BlackMetal band from Japan, maybe the first ever from that country, which formed in Tokyo in 1990. They were somewhat well-known among the black metal scene in the early 1990s for being signed to Deathlike Silence Productions, the record label of {{Mayhem}} guitarist Euronymous. Beginning as a fairly straightforward BlackMetal band, they soon began to [[NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly experiment with their sound a bit]], with their most recent albums settling on a hybrid of BlackMetal, ThrashMetal, and SymphonicMetal.

* NewSoundAlbum: They have several. Arguably, most entries in their discography count as this.

* LoudnessWar: Most of their albums to some extent, but the two worst offenders: ''Hangman's Hymn'' has a [=ReplayGain=] value of -12.53 dB, and ''Scenes from Hell'' has a value of -12.93 dB. Bloody hell. ''In Somniphobia'' appears to be mixed somewhat more quietly, with a value of -9.12 dB (at least on the mp3 version that has leaked; however, this may be due to the large number of lengthy ambient interludes, which probably drag the [=ReplayGain=] value up somewhat). Really, everything the band released on CD after 2000 is affected by this trope pretty badly, except, oddly, the original mix of ''Gallows Gallery'' (which is basically the only advantage it has over the remaster, which is much clearer in every other respect). This includes remasters of their earlier albums, such as ''Scorn Defeat''.

* SpokenWordInMusic: Shows up occasionally, the most prominent examples being a couple of songs on ''Scenes from Hell'' feature narration by David Tibet of Current93.

* ''In Somniphobia'' (2012; to be released in March, but it has leaked to the Internet)

* CreatorCouples: Mirai and Mikannibal, although the latter is a fairly recent addition to the band.

* LoudnessWar: Most of their albums to some extent, but the two worst offenders: ''Hangman's Hymn'' has a [=ReplayGain=] value of -12.53 dB, and ''Scenes from Hell'' has a value of -12.93 dB. Bloody hell. ''In Somniphobia'' appears to be mixed somewhat more quietly, with a value of -9.12 dB (at least on the mp3 version that has leaked; however, this may be due to the large number of lengthy ambient interludes, which probably drag the [=ReplayGain=] value up somewhat). Really, everything the band released on CD after 2000 is affected by this trope pretty badly, except, oddly, the original mix of ''Gallows Gallery'' (which is basically the only point in which it is better than the remaster). This includes remasters of their earlier albums, such as ''Scorn Defeat''.

* LoudnessWar: Most of their albums to some extent, but the two worst offenders: ''Hangman's Hymn'' has a [=ReplayGain=] value of -12.53 dB, and ''Scenes from Hell'' has a value of -12.93 dB. Bloody hell. ''In Somniphobia'' appears to be mixed somewhat more quietly, with a value of -9.12 dB (at least on the mp3 version that has leaked; however, this may be due to the large number of lengthy ambient interludes, which probably drag the [=ReplayGain=] value up somewhat). Really, everything the band released after 2000 is affected by this trope pretty badly, except, oddly, the original mix of ''Gallows Gallery'' (which is basically the only point in which it is better than the remaster). This includes remasters of their earlier albums.

* HarshVocals: On every album except ''Gallows Gallery''. Interestingly, Mikannibal's harsh vocals are usually lower-pitched than Mirai's on ''Scenes from Hell''; on ''In Somniphobia'', she employs a larger variety of vocal style and can be either higher- or lower-pitched than Mirai, depending on which style she is utilising.

* HarshVocals: On every album except ''Gallows Gallery''. Interestingly, Mikannibal's harsh vocals are usually lower-pitched than Mirai's.

* LoudnessWar: Most of their albums to some extent, but the two worst offenders: ''Hangman's Hymn'' has a [=ReplayGain=] value of -12.53 dB, and ''Scenes from Hell'' has a value of -12.93 dB. Bloody hell. ''In Somniphobia'' appears to be mixed somewhat more quietly, with a value of -9.12 dB (at least on the mp3 version that has leaked; however, this may be due to the large number of lengthy ambient interludes, which probably drag the [=ReplayGain=] value up somewhat). Really, everything the band released after 2000 is affected by this trope pretty badly, except, oddly, the original mix of ''Gallows Gallery'' (which is basically the only point in which it is better than the remaster).

* LoudnessWar: Most of their albums to some extent, but the two worst offenders: ''Hangman's Hymn'' has a [=ReplayGain=] value of -12.53 dB, and ''Scenes from Hell'' has a value of -12.93 dB. Bloody hell. ''In Somniphobia'' appears to be mixed somewhat more quietly, with a value of -9.12 dB (at least on the mp3 version that has leaked; however, this may be due to the large number of lengthy ambient interludes, which probably drag the [=ReplayGain=] value up somewhat).

* LoudnessWar: Most of their albums to some extent, but the two worst offenders: ''Hangman's Hymn'' has a [=ReplayGain=] value of -12.53 dB, and ''Scenes from Hell'' has a value of -12.93 dB. Bloody hell. ''In Somniphobia'' appears to be mixed somewhat more quietly, with a value of -9.12 dB (at least on the mp3 version that has leaked; however, this may be due to the large number of lengthy ambient interludes, which probably drag the ReplayGain value up somewhat).

* LoudnessWar: Most of their albums to some extent, but the two worst offenders: ''Hangman's Hymn'' has a [=ReplayGain=] value of -12.53 dB, and ''Scenes from Hell'' has a value of -12.93 dB. Bloody hell. ''In Somniphobia'' is mixed somewhat more quietly, with a value of -9.12 dB (at least on the mp3 version that has leaked).

* LoudnessWar: Most of their albums to some extent, but the two worst offenders: ''Hangman's Hymn'' has a ReplayGain value of -12.53 dB, and ''Scenes from Hell'' has a value of -12.93 dB. Bloody hell. ''In Somniphobia'' is mixed somewhat more quietly, with a value of -9.12 dB (at least on the mp3 version that has leaked).

* LoudnessWar: Most of their albums to some extent, but the two worst offenders: ''Hangman's Hymn'' has a ReplayGain value of -12.53 dB, and ''Scenes from Hell'' has a value of -12.93 dB. Bloody hell. ''In Somniphobia'' is mixed somewhat more quietly, with a value of -9.12 dB.

* HarshVocals: On every album except ''Gallows Gallery''.

* ''In Somniphobia'' (2011; currently unreleased)

* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: Frequent on their albums, but nowhere near so much as on ''Imaginary Sonicscape'', which could also pretty much be described as musical GenreRoulette, what with oddities like disco and dub reggae breaks being thrown into the middle of almost every song. Not to mention the obligatory classical snippet overlaid with what appears to be several hundred samples of giggling babies that closes the album.

* TheTropeSong: "The Tranquilizer Song".