{"id":87553,"date":"2024-08-07T22:28:39","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T21:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/?p=87553"},"modified":"2025-06-26T20:05:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T19:05:48","slug":"sigh-to-embark-on-short-summer-tour-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/2024\/08\/sigh-to-embark-on-short-summer-tour-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"SIGH to embark on short summer tour in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After touring Europe last year to celebrate he 30th anniversary of SIGH&#8217;s first album release, the metal veterans returned to Europe earlier this year for a series of performances in Finland. A follow-up is slated for this month, as the Japanese experimental metal band SIGH will be returning to Europe for a summer tour with shows in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Belgium. Compared to last year, this tour is slightly shorter.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"SIGH  - SATSUI (taken from the new album SHIKI)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ikER7txirXQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The shows in the United Kingdom are special, according to the metal band, because the last time they toured there was in 1995 with Primordial and Hecate Enthroned, so almost 30 years ago. Although the metal veterans have done shows here and there in the United Kingdom over the years, it is interesting that several shows are now scheduled for the upcoming tour, including an appearance at ArcTanGent Festival. In total, the band will play four shows in the United Kingdom during this summer tour. In the Netherlands, the band will perform at Complexity Festival in Haarlem and the tour ends in Belgium with a performance at Ghent&#8217;s Asgaard.<\/p>\n<p>The band revealed in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C7wNLmvSm_o\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">social media post<\/a> that they will play some songs that they have not played for a very long time or at all before and should the situation allow, there will be a lot of fire and blood, according to the band.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"SIGH - Shoujahitsumetsu (Taken from Shiki)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8vYIy9n62Pk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Although they are known as the one of the most renowned black metal bands from Japan, over the years they have developed into one of the most innovative band in that genre. Despite their excursions into experimental sounds, SIGH consistently retained the chaotic atmosphere characteristic of black metal, while also adding other aspects to their music such as traditional Japanese musical instruments and influences from Central Asia and the Middle East. SIGH&#8217;s most recent release is the album<em> Shiki<\/em>, which came out in the summer of 2022, following up the album <em>Heir To Despair<\/em> released in 2018. The band is very open to their fans on social media, mostly kept active by vocalist and keyboardist Mirai Kawashima, asking for opinions, sharing personal stories and funny comments in addition to the normal news a band normally shares.<\/p>\n<h3>SIGH European Summer Tour 2024 Dates<\/h3>\n<p>Tuesday 13 August, 2024: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oslohackney.com\/events\/sigh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Oslo<\/a> &#8211; London, United Kingdom<br \/>\nWednesday 14 August, 2024: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seetickets.com\/event\/sigh\/the-cathouse\/3036905\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Cathouse<\/a> &#8211; Glasgow, United Kingdom<br \/>\nThurdsday 15 August, 2024: <a href=\"https:\/\/dice.fm\/event\/l8agqb-sigh-15th-aug-boom-leeds-tickets?lng=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Boom<\/a>&#8211; Leeds, United Kingdom<br \/>\nFriday 16 August, 2024: <a href=\"https:\/\/arctangent.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ArcTanGent Festival<\/a> &#8211; Bristol, United Kingdom<br \/>\nSaturday 17 August, 2024: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.complexityfest.com\/festival\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Complexity Festival<\/a> &#8211; Haarlem, Netherlands<br \/>\nSunday 18 August, 2024: <a href=\"https:\/\/sigh.tickoweb.be\/selection\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Asgaard<\/a> &#8211; Ghent, Belgium<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After touring Europe last year to celebrate he 30th anniversary of SIGH&#8217;s first album release, the metal veterans returned to Europe earlier this year for a series of performances in Finland. A follow-up is slated for this month, as the Japanese experimental metal band SIGH will be returning to Europe for a summer tour with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"2","single_blog_custom":"71754","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"1","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"1","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"1","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"no-crop","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-715"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":null,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3977],"tags":[5830,8410,8771,8772,5872],"class_list":["post-87553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-japanese-events-music","tag-black-metal-en","tag-experimental-metal","tag-extreme-metal","tag-progressive-black-metal","tag-sigh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87553"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93477,"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87553\/revisions\/93477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}