Imaginary Sonicscape cover

Imaginary Sonicscape

Released

No real way to describe this other than absolutely batshit unpredictable bonkers but in the good way and not the Heath Ledger Joker “blowing up a hospital” sort of way. Sigh’s fifth album was an inspired melange of everything from thrash to circus music to psychedelic rock as interpreted through a Japanese black metal band that straight up did not care about genre limitations. In the same way that great anime shows like Cowboy Bebop remixed a bunch of Western tropes through a fresh lens, Imaginary Sonicscape gleefully tosses metal orthodoxy into the blender and comes up with a delicious, iron shard-filled smoothie.

Jeff Treppel

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