Shiki

Sigh’s Shiki finds the Japanese avant-garde outfit channeling black metal through a prism of progressive complexity and theatrical excess on Peaceville. Tremolo-picked riffs collide with orchestral arrangements, operatic vocals, and polyrhythmic passages that resist easy categorization. The result is simultaneously corrosive and baroque—a record that treats black metal’s raw aggression as a launching point for compositional ambition rather than a ceiling.