Darker Than Darkness: Style 93

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Darker Than Darkness: Style 93
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Studio album by
ReleasedJune 23, 1993 (1993-06-23)
RecordedFebruary 20 – April 30, 1993
StudioSound Sky Studio, Tokyo
Genre
Length61:56
LanguageJapanese, English
Label Victor
Producer Hitoshi Hiruma and Buck-Tick
Buck-Tick chronology
Kurutta Taiyou
(1991)
Darker Than Darkness: Style 93
(1993)
Six/Nine
(1995)
Singles from Darker Than Darkness: Style 93
  1. "Dress"
    Released: May 21, 1993
  2. "Die"
    Released: October 21, 1993
  3. "Dress (Bloody Trinity Mix)"
    Released: April 2, 2005

Darker Than Darkness: Style 93 is the seventh studio album by the Japanese rock band Buck-Tick. It was released on June 23, 1993, through Victor Entertainment. [1] The album peaked at number two on the Oricon chart, [2] became a certified gold seller by July 1993, [3] and subsequently sold 213,260 copies. [4] Darker Than Darkness: Style 93 was digitally remastered and re-released on September 19, 2002, with two bonus tracks. It was remastered and re-released again on September 5, 2007. "Dress" was remixed and used as the opening theme for the anime Trinity Blood (2005), [5] this version was also released as a single. The album was named one of the top albums from 1989 to 1998 in a 2004 issue of the music magazine Band Yarouze. [6]

Contents

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Atsushi Sakurai, except where noted; all music is composed by Hisashi Imai, except where noted

No.TitleLength
1."Kirameki no Naka de..." (キラメキの中で...)4:41
2."Deep Slow"4:32
3."Yuuwaku" (誘惑; music written by Hidehiko Hoshino)5:58
4."Ao no Sekai" (青の世界)4:57
5."Kamikaze" (神風; lyrics written by Imai)4:45
6."Zero"4:05
7."Dress" (ドレス; music written by Hoshino)6:22
8."Lion"4:31
9."Madman Blues (Minashigo no Yuuutsu)" (Madman Blues -ミナシ児ノ憂鬱-; lyrics written by Imai)5:12
10."Die"4:34
93."D.T.D" (hidden track)6:42
Total length:61:56
2002 digital remaster
No.TitleLength
11."D.T.D"6:42
12."Dress" (Aux Send Mix)7:41
13."Die" (live)5:25

Personnel

Additional performers

Production

Notes

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