Darker Than Darkness: Style 93 Explained

Darker Than Darkness: Style 93
Type:	Studio album
Artist:	Buck-Tick
Cover:	Buck-Tick - Darker Than Darkness -Style 93-.jpg
Recorded:	February 20 – April 30, 1993
Studio:	Sound Sky Studio, Tokyo
Length:	61:56
Language:	Japanese, English
Label:	Victor
Producer:	Hitoshi Hiruma and Buck-Tick
Prev Title:	Kurutta Taiyou
Prev Year:	1991
Next Title:	Six/Nine
Next Year:	1995

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]

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]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Darker Than Darkness -style93-. jame-world.com. 2011-04-13.
2. Web site: BUCK-TICKのアルバム売り上げランキング. oricon.co.jp. 2011-04-27.
3. Web site: 月次認定作品 認定年月：1993年 7月. Japanese. RIAJ. 2017-11-04.
4. Web site: 1993年 アルバム年間TOP100. https://web.archive.org/web/20160303191719/http://www.geocities.jp/object_ori/1993a.html. 2016-03-03. ja.
5. Web site: Buck-Tick. April 26, 2013 . 2022-05-09. JAME World.
6. Web site: Top 44 Albums from 1989 - 1998. jame-world.com. 2004-05-09. 2013-03-08.
7. Web site: Darker Than Darkness -Style 93- review . Buck-Tick Zone.com . 2012-01-29 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120226125811/http://www.calavera.com/btzone/releases/album_darkerthandarkness.shtml . 2012-02-26 .