EZO "Fire Fire (Japan, Invitation Records, Japanese Hard Rock Collection Series, VICL-2080)"

EZO (イーズィーオー, Iiziiō) was a Japanese heavy metal band originally formed as Flatbacker in the spring of 1982 in Sapporo, Japan out of the remnants of two high school bands, Power-Station and Scrap. EZO has been named a "seminal influence by such artists as Steve McDonald of Redd Kross and Michael Steele of The Bangles."

EZO consisted of Masaki Yamada (vocals), Taro Takahashi (bass), Shoyo Iida (guitar) and Hiro Homma (drums).

Fire Fire is the second studio album released by Japanese metal band Ezo. It was released on May 21, 1989 on Geffen Records.

Track listing

All songs by EZO and Jody Gray except where indicated.

1. "Love Junkie" – 4:44
2. "Night Crawler" (EZO, Chris Gates, Gray, James Palace) – 4:21
3. "Fire Fire" – 5:51
4. "Wild Talk" – 4:37
5. "Burn Down the Night" – 4:39
6. "Black Moon" – 3:54
7. "Back to Zero" – 4:23
8. "Cold Blooded" (EZO, Gray, Palace, Stephan Galfas) – 3:59
9. "She's Ridin' the Rhythm" (EZO, Gray, Palace) – 3:54
10. "Streetwalker" (EZO, Gray, Palace) – 4:15
11. "Million Miles Away" (EZO, Gates, Gray) – 3:49

Time:  48:33

Recording information:

Recorded and mixed at Atlantic Studio, New York, NY, USA.

Preproduction at P.A.W. Rehearsal Studio.

Mastered at Sterling Sound, New York.

Stephan Galfas – producer, mixing

Jody Gray, James Palace – associate producers

Mark Corbin, Ellen Fitton – engineers

Noah Baron – mixing

George Marino – mastering at Sterling Sound, New York

Norio Yamamoto – coordinator

Sigh "Imaginary Sonicscape (架空音景) (Germany, Century Media, 77374-2)"

Imaginary Sonicscape is the fifth studio album by Japanese black metal band Sigh, released on July 4, 2001. Produced by Sigh, it was the band's first record released on Century Media Records. The musical styles of Imaginary Sonicscape further explored the experimental tendencies of the band's previous album Scenario IV: Dread Dreams with further psychedelic elements to the band's sound.

After leaving their previous record label Cacophonous Records for Century Media due to lack of promotion, Sigh entered the studio to record Imaginary Sonicscape in September 2000 at Studio Zen/Electric Space Studio. The album took many months to perfect under the direction of Yukito Okazaki from the stoner metal band Eternal Elysium. While the band's new sound was influenced by jazz, classical music and Frank Zappa, the lyrics of the album were based on the band's views on life and death. Band member Mirai described it as "Most of they [sic] lyrics on the album are about life and death and fear of getting old, fear of losing somebody you love." The style of the album draws from many genres outside of the extreme metal sound, occasionally drifting into sounds ranging from dub, giggling babies, jazz fusion and disco. Frontman Mirai explained that the band "never intend to make it musically varied or weird. I always choose the best way to express the feeling. Sometimes it could be heavy guitars while sometimes it could be a classical piano solo. And as a result, sometimes the song has lots of different elements. It's just a result, not a purpose." The band finished recording the album in March 2001.

Imaginary Sonicscape was released on July 4, 2001. The album failed to chart in the United States. The album was well received from the extreme metal audience. The British extreme music magazine Terrorizer placed the album as the 10th best album of 2001. William York of the music database Allmusic gave the album four and a half stars out of five noting that "On one hand, this is great heavy metal, and on the other, it's genuinely twisted experimental/psychedelic music. An amazing, weird album, and also the best place for newcomers to start with this band."

The album was remastered and reissued in 2009 with two bonus tracks: "Voices" and "Born Condemned Criminal," and a longer version of "Bring Back the Dead":

Tracklist:

1. "Corpsecry - Angelfall" 6:42
2. "Scarlet Dream" 5:10
3. "Nietzschean Conspiracy" (Bård Eithun, Mirai) 5:24
4. "A Sunset Song" 6:49
5. "Impromptu (Allegro Maestoso)" (Mirai) 1:24
6. "Dreamsphere (Return to the Chaos)" 6:50
7. "Ecstatic Transformation" 5:35
8. "Born Condemned Criminal" 5:43
9. "Slaughtergarden Suite" 10:57
10. "Bring Back the Dead" 6:40
11. "Requiem - Nostalgia" (Ends with excerpt of Frédéric Chopin's Minute Waltz) 7:52

Sigh "Imaginary Sonicscape (架空音景) (Japan, Victor Entertainment, VICP-61448)"

Imaginary Sonicscape is the fifth studio album by Japanese black metal band Sigh, released on July 4, 2001. Produced by Sigh, it was the band's first record released on Century Media Records. The musical styles of Imaginary Sonicscape further explored the experimental tendencies of the band's previous album Scenario IV: Dread Dreams with further psychedelic elements to the band's sound.

After leaving their previous record label Cacophonous Records for Century Media due to lack of promotion, Sigh entered the studio to record Imaginary Sonicscape in September 2000 at Studio Zen/Electric Space Studio. The album took many months to perfect under the direction of Yukito Okazaki from the stoner metal band Eternal Elysium. While the band's new sound was influenced by jazz, classical music and Frank Zappa, the lyrics of the album were based on the band's views on life and death. Band member Mirai described it as "Most of they [sic] lyrics on the album are about life and death and fear of getting old, fear of losing somebody you love." The style of the album draws from many genres outside of the extreme metal sound, occasionally drifting into sounds ranging from dub, giggling babies, jazz fusion and disco. Frontman Mirai explained that the band "never intend to make it musically varied or weird. I always choose the best way to express the feeling. Sometimes it could be heavy guitars while sometimes it could be a classical piano solo. And as a result, sometimes the song has lots of different elements. It's just a result, not a purpose." The band finished recording the album in March 2001.

Imaginary Sonicscape was released on July 4, 2001. The album failed to chart in the United States. The album was well received from the extreme metal audience. The British extreme music magazine Terrorizer placed the album as the 10th best album of 2001. William York of the music database Allmusic gave the album four and a half stars out of five noting that "On one hand, this is great heavy metal, and on the other, it's genuinely twisted experimental/psychedelic music. An amazing, weird album, and also the best place for newcomers to start with this band."

The album was remastered and reissued in 2009 with two bonus tracks: "Voices" and "Born Condemned Criminal," and a longer version of "Bring Back the Dead":

Tracklist:

1. "Corpsecry - Angelfall" 6:42
2. "Scarlet Dream" 5:10
3. "Nietzschean Conspiracy" (Bård Eithun, Mirai) 5:24
4. "A Sunset Song" 6:49
5. "Impromptu (Allegro Maestoso)" (Mirai) 1:24
6. "Dreamsphere (Return to the Chaos)" 6:50
7. "Voices" 7:02
8. "Ecstatic Transformation" 5:35
9. "Born Condemned Criminal" 5:43
10. "Slaughtergarden Suite" 10:57
11. "Born Condemned Criminal"  05:45  
12. "Bring Back the Dead" 06:40  
13. "Requiem - Nostalgia" 07:58

Time:  01:09:16

Comes with two booklets. Track 9 is bonus track for this Japanese edition.

Sigh "Graveward (Japan, Rubicon Music, RBNCD-1189)"

Graveward is the tenth album by Japanese Avant-Garde Black Metal band Sigh, released April 13th, 2015.

Tracklist:

1. Kaedit Nos Pestis 04:36
2. Graveward 05:16   
3. The Tombfiller 04:51   
4. The Forlorn 05:47   
5. The Molesters of My Soul 05:19   
6. Out of the Grave 03:45
7. The Trial by the Dead 04:28   
8. The Casketburner 05:03
9. A Messenger from Tomorrow 07:11   
10. Dwellers in a Dream 03:26   
11. Graveward Suite 03:37   
12. The Tombfiller (alternate guitar solo version) 04:53  
13. The Forlorn (Europe / US original version) 05:47  
14. The Molesters of My Soul (alternate version) 04:46  
15. Out of the Grave (previously unreleased demo version) 03:48  
16. Dwellers in a Dream (alternate guitar solo version) 03:33  

Time:  01:16:06

"A Messenger from Tomorrow" is divided in three parts:

I). The Message

II). Foreboding

III). Doomsday

Official music video:

— "Out of the Grave"

Recording information:

Recorded at Studio Moopies / Electric Space Studio.