| I'll Kill You | |
| Cover: | X I'll Kill You.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | X |
| Released: | June 1985 |
| Studio: | Sound Market |
| Genre: | Speed metal, power metal |
| Length: | 7:34 |
| Label: | Dada |
| Producer: | X and Nobukatsu Hayashi |
| Next Title: | Orgasm |
| Next Year: | 1986 |
"I'll Kill You" is the debut single by Japanese heavy metal band X Japan, then named X, released in June 1985.
In 1988, Yoshiki explained that the song is not about killing people as the title would suggest, but is a love song in the vein of a disgruntled married couple.[1] All 1,000 copies of the record sold out.[2] The cover art notoriously features numerous photographs of dead bodies taken during the Vietnam War.
A different recording of the B-side, "Break the Darkness", was included on the sampler Heavy Metal Force III in November 1985.[3] While a re-recording of the title track was later featured on the band's first album, Vanishing Vision. "I'll Kill You" was covered by French symphonic black metal band Anorexia Nervosa as a bonus track for the Japanese edition of their 2004 album Redemption Process and later included on their 2005 The September E.P. as well.[4] [5]