Scenario IV: Dread Dreams
{{Infobox album
| name = Scenario IV: Dread Dreams
| type = studio
| artist = Sigh
| cover = Sigh – Scenario IV Dread Dreams.jpg
| alt =
| released = 1999
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Avant-garde metal, black metal
| length = 53:03
| label = Cacophonous
| producer =
| prev_title = Hail Horror Hail
| prev_year = 1997
| next_title = Imaginary Sonicscape
| next_year = 2001
}}
{{Album ratings
|rev1 = Allmusic
|rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r465992|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review]
|rev2 = Exclaim!
|rev2score = (favorable){{cite web|url=http://www.exclaim.ca/musicreviews/generalreview.aspx?csid2=846&fid1=6459&csid1=102|title=Sigh Scenario IV: Dread Dreams|work=Exclaim!|author=Palmerston, Sean|date=October 1999|accessdate=August 29, 2009}}
}}
Scenario IV: Dread Dreams is an album by the band Sigh. It was released by Cacophonous Records originally in 1999.
This album shows the traits of Sigh continuing to explore their more well known avant-garde, experimental sound. An example would be on "Black Curse" where Sigh have a standard black metal sound that eventually part way through turns into a mild funk riff and a country guitar sound. Sigh would expand on this type of experimental sound on the album Imaginary Sonicscape.
This was their last album for the Cacophonous label. Their next album appeared on Century Media.
Track listing
- All music by Sigh, except where noted. Lyrics by Mirai, except where noted.
{{Track list
|title1 = Diabolic Suicide
|length1 = 7:31
|title2 = Infernal Cries
|length2 = 4:35
|note2 = Damian, Mirai
|title3 = Black Curse
|length3 = 8:22
|note3 = Lyrics by Taiki of the band Devil, with English translation by Mirai
|title4 = Iconoclasm in the 4th Desert
|length4 = 7:30
|title5 = In the Mind of a Lunatic
|length5 = 4:34
|note5 = King
|title6 = Severed Ways
|length6 = 8:05
|note6 = Killjoy
|title7 = Imprisoned
|length7 = 5:17
|note7 = Damian
|title8 = Waltz: Dread Dreams
|length8 = 1:22
|note8 = Music by Mirai
|title9 = Divine Graveyard
|length9 = 5:47
|total_length = 53:03
}}
Personnel
- Mirai: Vocals, Keyboard, Bass, Sampling, Programming, Vocoder
- Shinichi: Acoustic & Electric Guitar
- Satoshi: Drums, Percussion
- Chie Kouno: Female chorus on tracks 1, 2 and 5
- Damian: Chorus on tracks 4,7 and 8