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Darker Than Darkness: Style 93

Studio album by

Buck-Tick

Released

June 23, 1993

Recorded

February 20 – April 30, 1993

Studio

Sound Sky Studio, Tokyo

Genre

Length

61:56

Language

Japanese, 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

"Dress"
Released: May 21, 1993
"Die"
Released: October 21, 1993
"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.	Title	Length
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.	Title	Length
11.	"D.T.D"	6:42
12.	"Dress" (Aux Send Mix)	7:41
13.	"Die" (live)	5:25

Personnel

Atsushi Sakurai – lead vocals
Hisashi Imai – lead guitar, backing vocals, lead vocals on "Madman Blues"
Hidehiko Hoshino – rhythm guitar, keyboards, synthesizers, backing vocals, piano
Yutaka Higuchi – bass guitar
Toll Yagami – drums, percussion

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

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

External links

Music video for "Die" on YouTube

v t e Buck-Tick
Hisashi Imai Hidehiko Hoshino Yutaka Higuchi Toll Yagami Araki Atsushi Sakurai
Studio albums	Hurry Up Mode Sexual XXXXX! Seventh Heaven Taboo Aku no Hana Kurutta Taiyou Darker Than Darkness: Style 93 Six/Nine Cosmos Sexy Stream Liner One Life, One Death Kyokutou I Love You Mona Lisa Overdrive Juusankai wa Gekkou Tenshi no Revolver Memento Mori Razzle Dazzle Yume Miru Uchuu Arui wa Anarchy Atom Miraiha No.9 No.0 Abracadabra Izora
Singles	"To-Search" "Just One More Kiss" "Aku no Hana" "Speed" "M・A・D" "Jupiter" "Dress" "Heroin" "Sasayaki" "Gessekai" "Zangai" "Gensou no Hana" "Romance" "Dress (Bloody Trinity Mix)" "Kagerou" "Rendezvous" "Alice in Wonder Underground" "Heaven" "Galaxy" "Dokudanjou Beauty" "Kuchizuke" "Miss Take: Boku wa Miss Take" "Kemonotachi no Yoru/Rondo" "Datenshi"
EPs	Romanesque LTD
Remix albums	Hurry Up Mode (1990 Mix) Symphonic Buck-Tick in Berlin Shapeless
Live albums	Sweet Strange Live Disc One Life, One Death Cut Up At the Night Side
Compilation albums	Koroshi no Shirabe: This Is Not Greatest Hits Catalogue 1987–1995 BT 97BT99 Super Value Buck-Tick Catalogue 2005 Catalogue Victor→Mercury 87–99 Catalogue Ariola 00–10
Tribute albums	Parade: Respective Tracks of Buck-Tick Parade II: Respective Tracks of Buck-Tick
Videos	Akuma to Freud -Devil and Freud- Climax Together
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