Scenario IV: Dread Dreams is an album by the band Sigh

Sigh (band)

is a Japanese extreme metal band from Tokyo, formed in 1990. They are credited as being one of the first Japanese black metal bands, when the majority of black metal in early 1990s came from Scandinavia. They gradually shifted from a more traditional black/thrash metal sound, to a more...

. It was released by Cacophonous Records originally in 1999.

This album shows the traits of Sigh continuing to explore their more well known Avantgarde/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

Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in the mid-late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony and brings a strong rhythmic groove of electric bass and drums to the foreground...

 riff and a country

Country music

Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 guitar sound. Sigh would expand on this type of experimental sound on the album Imaginary Sonicscape

Imaginary Sonicscape

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":-Personnel:...

.

This was their last album for the Cacophonous label. Their next album appeared on Century Media.

Track listing

All music by Sigh and lyrics by Mirai except where noted.

1. "Diabolic Suicide" – 7:31
2. "Infernal Cries" – 4:35 Lyrics by Damian
   Ritual Carnage
   Ritual Carnage is a thrash metal band formed in 1994. All the members are Japanese except for Damian Montgomery, their American frontman and leader.- Current members :* Damian "Danny Carnage" Montgomery – vocals...
   
    and Mirai
3. "Black Curse" – 8:22 Lyrics by Taiki (of the band Devil), translated into English by Mirai
4. "Iconoclasm in the 4th Desert" – 7:30
5. "In the Mind of a Lunatic" – 4:34 Lyrics by King
   Deceased (band)
   Deceased is a death/thrash metal band from Virginia, that has attained a dedicated, though cult following throughout a lengthy recording and live career. Founded in 1984, by drummer and vocalist King Fowley, the first band to sign Relapse Records, they released four full albums through the label,...
   
   
6. "Severed Ways" – 8:05 Lyrics by Killjoy
   Necrophagia
   Necrophagia is an American death metal band. The group was assembled in Wellsville, Ohio in 1983 and are credited as being one of the very first musical groups to be classified within the death metal genre. The group was founded by Frank Pucci...
   
   
7. "Imprisoned" – 5:17 Lyrics by Damian
8. "Waltz: Dread Dreams" – 1:22 Music by Mirai
9. "Divine Graveyard" – 5:47

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