Beyond the Darkness
Beyond the Darkness is a 2003 compilation album by the Japanese punk band Balzac. It features re-recordings of songs from the band's first five studio albums: The Last Men on Earth, Deep – Teenagers from Outer Space, 13 Stairway – The Children of the Night, Zennou-Naru Musuu-No Me Ha Shi Wo Yubi Sasu, and Terrifying! Art of Dying – The Last Men on Earth II. Beyond the Darkness was Balzac's first North American release.
Reception
Stewart Mason of AllMusic gave the album a score of four-and-a-half stars out of five, calling the choruses of the songs on the album "surprisingly catchy" and the album as a whole "a solidly entertaining overview of what they're all about".Track listing
DVD
- "Beware of Darkness"
- "Yami-No Mukou-No Subete-Wo"
- "The Silence of Crows"
- "Out of the Blue"
- "Making of Beware of Darkness"
Personnel
- Atsushi Nakagawa – lead guitar
- Akio Imai – bass guitar
- Hirosuke Nishiyama – lead vocals, art direction
- Takayuki Yasuda – drums, programming
- Tetsuya Kotani – engineer
- Akihiko Takenaka – mastering
- Mikito Sakuhana – assistant
- Jerry Only – executive producer
- John Cafiero – liner notes, executive producer