{"id":93467,"date":"2025-06-26T19:58:03","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T18:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/?p=93467"},"modified":"2025-06-26T20:22:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T19:22:44","slug":"sigh-to-tour-europe-again-this-august-after-last-years-summer-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/2025\/06\/sigh-to-tour-europe-again-this-august-after-last-years-summer-run\/","title":{"rendered":"SIGH to tour Europe again this August after last year\u2019s summer run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In recent years, metal veterans SIGH have been a regular sight in Europe, both at festivals and club shows. This year, the extperimental metal band from Tokyo has once again scheduled European performances, including several shows at festivals such as Brutal Assault and Hellsinki Metal Fest. SIGH&#8217;s European tour is scheduled for August and will include eleven shows in seven countries.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>During most club shows, the band will be joined by various support acts. On the first tour date, they will share the stage at Backstage with Finnish psychedelic black metal band Oranssi Pazuzu and American experimental metal band Imperial Triumphant. A show with the Swedish-Dutch black metal band D\u00f6dsrit is also planned in Germany. Imperial Triumphant will also accompany SIGH during several performances in Austria, Germany and Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p>Although they are known as one of the most renowned black metal bands from Japan, over the years they have developed into one of the most innovative bands 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. This month saw the release of a completely re-recorded version of SIGH&#8217;s album<em> Hangman&#8217;s Hymn<\/em> (2007), the metal band&#8217;s first concept album. This record is titled<em> I Saw the World&#8217;s End (Hangman&#8217;s Hymn MMXXV)<\/em> and commemorates SIGH&#8217;s 35th anniversary.\u00a0The 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<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sigh - Death With Dishonor - official video ( from &#039;I Saw the World\u2019s End \u2013 Hangman\u2019s Hymn MMXXV&#039;)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/soOy0MDjymE?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<h3>SIGH European Tour 2025 Dates<\/h3>\n<p>Monday 04 August, 2025: Free &amp; Easy at Backstage &#8211; M\u00fcnchen, Germany ***<br \/>\nTuesday 05 August, 2025: Rockhouse &#8211; Salzburg, Austria *<br \/>\nWednesday 06 August, 2025: Brutal Assault &#8211; Jaromer, Czechia<br \/>\nFriday 08 August, 2025: Vortex &#8211; Siegen, Germany **<br \/>\nSaturday 09 August, 2025: Hellsinki Metal Fest &#8211; Helsinki, Finland<br \/>\nSunday 10 August, 2025: Bi Nuu &#8211; Berlin, Germany *<br \/>\nMonday 11 August, 2025: Naumanns &#8211; Leipzig, Germany *<br \/>\nTuesday 12 August, 2025: Kesselhaus &#8211; Wiesbaden, Germany *<br \/>\nWednesday 13 August, 2025: Exil Club &#8211; Z\u00fcrich, Switzerland *<br \/>\nThursday 14 August, 2025: Frantic Festival &#8211; Francavilla, Italy<br \/>\nFriday 15 August, 2025: Midgardsblot &#8211; Horden, Norway<\/p>\n<p>* Imperial Triumphant<br \/>\n** D\u00f6dsrit<br \/>\n*** Imperial Triumphant and Oranssi Pazuzu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent years, metal veterans SIGH have been a regular sight in Europe, both at festivals and club shows. This year, the extperimental metal band from Tokyo has once again scheduled European performances, including several shows at festivals such as Brutal Assault and Hellsinki Metal Fest. SIGH&#8217;s European tour is scheduled for August and will [&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":{"subtitle":"","format":"standard","override":[{"template":"2","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"bottom","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_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","source_name":"SIGH","source_url":"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DLXPlctB7ge\/"},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3977],"tags":[7088,5830,8410,8771,5872],"class_list":["post-93467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-japanese-events-music","tag-avant-garde","tag-black-metal-en","tag-experimental-metal","tag-extreme-metal","tag-sigh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93467","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=93467"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93491,"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93467\/revisions\/93491"}],"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=93467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}