Darker Than Darkness: Style 93

Darker Than Darkness: Style 93
Studio album by
Buck-Tick
ReleasedJune 23, 1993 (1993-06-23)
RecordedFebruary 20 – April 30, 1993
StudioSound Sky Studio, Tokyo
Genre
Length61:56
LanguageJapanese, English
LabelVictor
ProducerHitoshi 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]

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

  • Rie Hamada – backing vocals on "Dress"
  • Kazutoshi Yokoyama – backing vocals on "Dress" and "Kirameki no Naka De"

Production

  • Hitoshi Hiruma – producer, recording, mixing
  • Buck-Tick – producers
  • Osamu Takagi; Takafumi Muraki – executive producers
  • Shigetoshi Naitoh; Takahiro Uchida – engineer
  • Hirohito Fujishima; Katsumi Moriya – assistant engineers
  • Ken Sakaguchi – cover art, graphic design
  • M. Hasui – photography

Notes

  • On the originally released 1993 CD, after track ten it skips to track #75, titled "Not T Dise", after that the CD skips to track #84, titled "Kirameki no Naka de" and finally after that, it skips to track #93, titled "D-T-D". The names of these hidden bonus tracks were only given in a magazine published at the time. The digital remaster release includes "D-T-D" (credited; lyrics: Sakurai, music: Imai), but not "Not T Dise" or "Kirameki no Naka de".[7]

References

  1. ^ "Darker Than Darkness -style93-". jame-world.com. Retrieved 2011-04-13.
  2. ^ "BUCK-TICKのアルバム売り上げランキング". oricon.co.jp. Retrieved 2011-04-27.
  3. ^ "月次認定作品 認定年月：1993年 7月" (in Japanese). RIAJ. Retrieved 2017-11-04.
  4. ^ "1993年 アルバム年間TOP100" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2016-03-03.
  5. ^ "Buck-Tick". JAME World. April 26, 2013. Retrieved 2022-05-09.
  6. ^ "Top 44 Albums from 1989 - 1998". jame-world.com. 2004-05-09. Retrieved 2013-03-08.
  7. ^ "Darker Than Darkness -Style 93- review". Buck-Tick Zone.com. Archived from the original on 2012-02-26. Retrieved 2012-01-29.


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