SIGH Shares Music Video For New Single ‘Unputenpu’ Featuring OPETH’s MIKAEL ÅKERFELDT
Japanese metal band Sigh have released a video for “Unputenpu”, the first single from their forthcoming studio album, “Goh-ka”. The track features a guest guitar lead from Opeth’s Mikael Åkerfeldt, while frontman Mirai Kawashima says its lyrics reflect the uncontrollable nature of fortune, loss and death.
“Goh-ka” is described as a roughly hour-long, highly arranged album blending metal with psychedelic, progressive and classical influences. Its title carries meanings linked to infernal fire, apocalypse and karma, and its central concept draws on Buddhist “Kuso-zu” artworks depicting bodily decomposition; the album also features bassist Frédéric Leclercq and drummer Mike Heller, and was mixed and mastered by Lasse Lammert.
In short
- Sigh release “Unputenpu” video featuring Mikael Åkerfeldt.
- The song previews their forthcoming album, “Goh-ka”.
- “Goh-ka” explores mortality, impermanence and Buddhist imagery.
Explained simply
Sigh are a Japanese metal band whose music draws on styles including psychedelic, progressive and classical music. Their album Goh-ka is built around Kuso-zu, a Buddhist art tradition depicting the stages of a body’s decay after death.
The album’s title has associations with infernal fire, apocalypse and karma. Those ideas connect with the song’s lyrics, which frontman Mirai Kawashima says consider how fortune, loss and death can be beyond human control.
Opeth guitarist Mikael Åkerfeldt guests on the track, alongside other musicians contributing to the album, including bassist Frédéric Leclercq and drummer Mike Heller. The mix of performers and musical influences gives context to the album’s broad, carefully arranged sound.