Scenes from Hell is the eighth full-length studio album

Studio album

A studio album is an album made up of tracks recorded in the controlled environment of a recording studio. A studio album contains newly written and recorded or previously unreleased or remixed material, distinguishing itself from a compilation or reissue album of previously recorded material, or...

 by the Japanese extreme metal

Extreme metal

Extreme metal is a loosely defined umbrella term for a number of related heavy metal music subgenres that have developed since the early 1980s. The term usually refers to a more abrasive, harsher, underground, non-commercialized style or sound nearly always associated with genres like black metal,...

 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 is the band's first full-length recording to feature Dr. Mikannibal. On October 15, 2009 the band posted the album cover and set January 19, 2010 as the official release date.

A music video was released for the song "Prelude to the Oracle".

Track listing

All music and lyrics by Mirai Kawashima

1. "Prelude to the Oracle" - 4:10
2. "L’art de Mourir" - 4:55
3. "The Soul Grave" - 3:59
4. "The Red Funeral" - 6:54
5. "The Summer Funeral" - 7:06
6. "Musica in Tempora Belli" - 5:59
7. "Vanitas" - 6:24
8. "Scenes from Hell" - 3:35

Personnel

• Mirai Kawasima - Vocals, orchestrations, piano, organ, theremin, whistle, sitar, tabla, tampura
• Dr. Mikannibal - Vocals, saxophone
• Satoshi Fujinami - Bass
• Shinichi Ishikawa - Guitar
• Junichi Harashima - Drums
• James Murphy - Mastering
• Eliran Kantor
  Eliran Kantor
  Eliran Kantor is a Berlin-based artist and illustrator known mostly for creating album covers for heavy metal bands such as Testament, Mekong Delta, Sigh and Anacrusis...
  
   - Artwork
• David Tibet
  David Tibet
  David Tibet is a British poet and artist who founded the music group Current 93, of which he is the only full-time member. He had earlier collaborated with Psychic TV and 23 Skidoo...
  
  - Spoken word on The Red Funeral