“In Somniphobia” is a sonic nightmare that lasts for more than an hour. The musical direction is pretty much far from that of the last two albums,
« Scenes from Hell » and « Hangman’s Hymn ». It is not easy to describe its direction, but probably one can say that it is something between « Imaginary Sonicscape », « Hail Horror Hail » and « Gallows
Gallery », or rather, simply a nightmarish version of « Imaginary Sonicscape ».
Put heavy metal, classical music, jazz, Indian traditional music, Stockhausen, and Xenakis into a cauldron of hell and stir it, you’ll get « In Somniphobia ».
The first two songs are VERY heavy metal, but from the third track, it begins. Five songs are woven together, which part is named « Lucid Nightmares ». It
is a pure sonic description of nightmares. This is surrealistic, ethnic, druggy, atmospheric and definitely scary! Lots of vintage gems are being used such as Minimoog, Prophet-5, Clavinet D-6,
Roland RE-201 Space Echo etc. along with some ethnic instruments like Indian Sarangi, Sitar, Tampura, and Tabla. Kam Lee (ex-Massacre, Bone Gnawer etc.) and Metatron (The Meads of Asphodel)
cooperated with the lyrics and the vocals for “Lucid Nightmares”.
Recorded at Studio Moopies and Electric Space Studio in 2010 / 2011
Engineered by Takamichi Osada
Produced by Sigh