Heir To Despair

Sigh - Heir To Despair
Critic Score
Based on 6 reviews
2018 Ratings: #15 / 890
User Score
Based on 171 ratings
2018 Rank: #294
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CRITIC REVIEWS

100
Metal Injection

Where does Sigh go from here? Only time will tell. For a band that’s always been impossible to predict and at times harder to decipher, Heir to Despair serves as a testament to their abilities.

90
Exclaim!

By nailing prog rock, epic metal and Japanese traditional music, Sigh have probably dug themselves into a niche that could be impossible to get out of. But if any album could, it's Heir to Despair.

90
MetalSucks

It’s the mix of all these elements — the willingness to experiment, the grasp of the fundamentals, and the mastery of atmospherics — that make Heir to Despair the kind of release that everyone — and I do mean EVERYone — should experience at least twice (there is simply no way your mind is going to be able to properly take the whole thing in with just one listen).

80
PopMatters

In a discography full of records that sound unmistakably like Sigh despite often not sounding anything like each other, Heir to Despair fits in perfectly. The instantly recognizable riffs, inspired songwriting bits, a production that is just a bit muffled and just a little bit off, the passages of black metal aggression, and a general feel of insane joy are all still here and should delight fans.

78
Sputnikmusic
It’s Sigh’s most palatable record since, perhaps ever. Rather than bludgeon the listener with out-of-left-field whackiness, Sigh smartly use their avant-grade sensibilities to make their most substantial record in over 15 years. It offers so much more while feeling like less.
Hypnoglitz
NR

Meanwhile...a very good album goes unnoticed/underrated by the aoty community.

TheRootBoy
51

As much as the textures vibrate and contort through each track in a very avant-garde metal fashion, when the quality sounds too rich, squeaky, and like generic heavy metal, it ends up sounding more like Avenge Sevenfold than it does black metal or visual kei, (visual kei that's exciting to me at least). Heir to Despair is in whole a quirky record, which makes sense for Sigh. Unfortunately, I fall short from being too invested with this thing because of how quirky and everywhere the outside ... read more

Kal3n
86

This is the first time listening to this band, and I absolutely loved it. The mix of progressive rock, avant-garde and trash metal, and traditional Japanese music is great.

'AMAZING' TRACKS: Homo Homini Lupus, In Memories Delusional, Hands of the String Puller, Heir To Despair

'GREAT' TRACKS: Heresy I: Oblivium, Heresy II: Acosmism, Heresy III: Sub Species Aeternitatis

'GOOD' TRACKS: Aletheia, Hunters Not Horned

'AVERAGE' TRACKS: -

'NOT GOOD' TRACKS: -

BingChilling
75

はい、とても興味深いです。でも、奇妙なものですが、良い意味で、茹でたベーコンを思い出させます。 少し揚げると、アルバムのテーマとなっているジューシーなエイリアンの肉が残ります。なぜなら、どういうわけか、ジョン・カーペンターの「ザ・シング」を思い出させるからです。 ... read more

cglaume
87

Petit frère / frère jumeau d’In Somniphobia, Heir To Despair est un superbe retour au « Nawak Psyché Heavy/Black exotique » de 2012, entre BaK, Solefald, Secret Chiefs 3 et Kekal. Du grand Sigh, une fois de plus.

Pour en savoir plus: https://www.coreandco.fr/chroniques/sigh-heir-to-despair-7001.html

rara2018
60

So I definitely didn't love this album, but there were a few songs that were super interesting to listen to. I had expected a more co-ed vocal breakdown, but I still enjoyed this sound. I wouldn't probably listen to anything off this album again, except for maybe a handful of songs (just because there was a lot happening that was kind of cool). It's just not something I especially like.

<3 Heresy I: Oblivium, Heresy II: Acosmism

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Added on: September 29, 2018