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2003 studio album by Balzac

Beyond The Darkness

Studio album by Balzac

Released

July 29, 2003

Genre

Length

59:51

Label

Misfits

Producer

Balzac

Balzac chronology

Zennou-Naru Musuu-No Me Ha Shi Wo Yubi Sasu
(2000)

Beyond The Darkness
(2003)

Came Out of the Grave
(2004)

Beyond the Darkness (Japanese: 闇を超えて, Hepburn: Yami-no mukou-no subete-wo) 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 (1995), Deep – Teenagers from Outer Space (1997), 13 Stairway – The Children of the Night (1998), Zennou-Naru Musuu-No Me Ha Shi Wo Yubi Sasu (2000), and Terrifying! Art of Dying – The Last Men on Earth II (2002). Beyond the Darkness was Balzac's first North American release.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic

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

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Thirteen"	2:29
2.	"Day the Earth Caught Fire"	3:02
3.	"Wall"	2:51
4.	"Into the Light of the 13 Dark Night"	3:26
5.	"The Black Light Shines in '99"	2:07
6.	"Nowhere #13"	3:15
7.	"Yami-No Mukou-No Subete-Wo"	4:00
8.	"Out of the Blue II"	5:59
9.	"In Your Face"	0:44
10.	"The Silence of Crows"	2:56
11.	"Tomorrow"	2:35
12.	"Vanishes in Oblivion"	2:45
13.	"The End of Century"	2:15
14.	"Monster II"	3:33
15.	"Beware of Darkness"	4:33
16.	"Violent Paradise"	2:07
17.	"The Bleeding Light"	3:55
Total length:		52:32

Bonus tracks
No.	Title	Length
18.	"Diabolos" (live)	3:15
19.	"13 Ghosts" (live)	1:11
20.	"Day the Earth Caught Fire" (live)	2:53
Total length:		7:19

DVD

"Beware of Darkness"
"Yami-No Mukou-No Subete-Wo"
"The Silence of Crows"
"Out of the Blue"
"Making of Beware of Darkness"

Personnel

Balzac

Atsushi Nakagawa – lead guitar
Akio Imai – bass guitar
Hirosuke Nishiyama – lead vocals, art direction
Takayuki Yasuda – drums, programming

Production

Tetsuya Kotani – engineer
Akihiko Takenaka – mastering
Mikito Sakuhana – assistant
Jerry Only – executive producer
John Cafiero – liner notes, executive producer

References

^ Mason, Stewart. Beyond the Darkness at AllMusic. Retrieved 13 November 2011.
Paul, Aubin (4 November 2005). "Balzac - Out of the Grave and Into the Dark [CD/DVD]". Punknews.org. Retrieved 28 January 2021.

v t e Balzac
Hirosuke Nishiyama Atsushi Nakagawa Akio Imai Takayuki Manabe Tetsuya Yoritsugu "Anti" Azuchi Naoki Koji Hajime Nishio Kill Masami Futoshi Okano Masami
Studio albums	Terrifying! Art of Dying – The Last Men on Earth II Beyond the Darkness Out of the Light of the 13 Dark Night Came Out of the Grave Dark-Ism Deep Blue: Chaos from Darkism II Paranoid Dream of the Zodiac Deep Blue: Chaos from Darkism Hatred: Destruction = Construction The Birth of Evil Paradox Bloodsucker Returns
Live albums	Live at O-East 20040305 Liquid Room 20050403 Official Bootleg
Compilation albums	The 4 Brothers Meet Misery Skull Out of the Grave and into the Dark
Singles	"Atom Age Vampire in 308" "Isolation from No.13" "When the Fiendish Ghouls Night"
Related articles	Discography

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