Violet (The Birthday Massacre album) explained

Violet
Type:	ep
Longtype:	/ Studio album
Artist:	The Birthday Massacre
Cover:	tbmviolet.jpg
Released:	October 25, 2004 (EP); August 9, 2005 (album)
Studio:	Dire Studios, Desolation Studios, Phase One Studios
Genre:	Electronic rock,^[1] gothic rock, new wave,^[2] dream pop
Length:
Label:	Metropolis
Producer:	The Birthday Massacre
Prev Title:	Nothing and Nowhere
Prev Year:	2002
Next Title:	Blue
Next Year:	2005

Violet is the second studio album by The Birthday Massacre, released on August 9, 2005. It was first released as an extended play (EP) on October 25, 2004, then commercially released on August 9, 2005 as a long play (LP) through Metropolis Records (North America/UK), Repo Records ^[3] (Europe) and Hellion Records (Brazil). The LP version included four re-recorded and slightly reworked tracks from their Nothing and Nowhere album: "Happy Birthday", "Horror Show", "Video Kid" and "The Dream".

VIOLET

Personnel

Credits adapted from Violet album liner notes.^[4]

• Chibi - vocals
• Rainbow - rhythm guitar
• M. Falcore - lead guitar
• Aslan - bass
• Rhim - drums

Release history

Region	Date
Germany^[5]	October 25, 2004
Canada	August 9, 2005^[6]
United Kingdom	September 12, 2005
France	November 28, 2005^[7]
Italy	December 12, 2005^[8]
Netherlands	March 1, 2007^[9] ^[10]

Notes

• The LP version was originally released in Europe on Repo Records in 2004.
• Tracks "Happy Birthday", "Horror Show", "Video Kid" and "The Dream" are all somewhat reworked versions of their equivalents on the band's previous album Nothing and Nowhere.
• Videos for both "Blue" and "Nevermind" were produced. "Blue" is an elaborate story-based video while "Nevermind" is a straightforward performance video, both of which were released on the "Blue DVD".
• Although the track list on the CD labels the final track as "Nevermind", if burned on iTunes, the track will be titled "Neverland".
• The band recorded a cover of The NeverEnding Story theme for the album, but left it off after not being pleased with the final result. The only existing version of the song is a low quality mp3 that can be found on P2P file sharing systems, or on their original EP under the name Imagica. However, on March 19, 2021, they released a newly recorded version as a single.^[11]
• On the 2004 release of Violet, Adm is pictured in the booklet as the keyboardist. On the 2005 re-release, he is removed from the booklet picture because he had left the band by that time.
• The track "Happy Birthday" was featured in the eighth episode of the first season of The Vampire Diaries, "162 Candles.",^[12]

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Birthday Massacre: Violet - Reviews @ Ultimate-Guitar.com. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20140326090556/http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/compact_discs/the_birthday_massacre/violet/index.html. 2014-03-26.
2. Web site: The Birthday Massacre on Apple Music. iTunes. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20140619182755/https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/the-birthday-massacre/id76797904. 2014-06-19.
3. Web site: Repo Records. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20110719081806/http://www.reporecords.de/tbm.htm. 2011-07-19.
4. The Birthday Massacre . Violet . liner notes . . 2004.
5. Web site: Violet. Amazon.
6. Web site: VIOLET by BIRTHDAY MASSACRE. HMV Canada. September 6, 2013.
7. Web site: Violet - Digipack : The Birthday Massacre. fr. Fnac. August 4, 2013. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20101220040857/http://musique.fnac.com/a1778649/The-Birthday-Massacre-Violet-Digipack-CD-album. December 20, 2010.
8. Web site: Birthday Massacre - Violet. it. Internet Bookshop Italia. August 4, 2013. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20160305141523/http://www.ibs.it/disco/4042564009408/birthday-massacre/violet.html. March 5, 2016.
9. Web site: Violet, Birthday Massacre . nl . bol.com . October 6, 2013 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20150923223719/http://www.bol.com/nl/p/violet/1000004003142549/ . September 23, 2015 .
10. Web site: Violet; The Birthday Massacre. nl . . October 6, 2013.
11. Web site: The NeverEnding Story, by the Birthday Massacre.
12. Web site: TVD Music Scene - Happy Birthday - The Birthday Massacre - 1x08. TheVampireDiariesOne. 28 May 2011. YouTube. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20170905233954/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiNHAiY68Ko. 5 September 2017.