Vanishing Vision

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Vanishing Vision
Vanishing Vision cover
Studio album by X Japan
Released April 14, 1988
Genre Heavy metal, power metal, progressive metal
Length 42:03
Label Extasy
Producer X Japan
X Japan chronology
Vanishing Vision
(1988)
Blue Blood
(1989)

Vanishing Vision is the debut album of X Japan and was released on April 14, 1988 on Yoshiki Hayashi's own label, Extasy Records, selling over 800,000 copies.[1] Included are early versions of the songs "Kurenai" and "Unfinished" which would later be rerecorded for the band's second album Blue Blood.

[edit] Track listing

# Title Lyrics Music Length
1. "Dear Loser"     Taiji 2:27
2. "Vanishing Love"   Yoshiki Yoshiki 6:01
3. "Phantom of Guilt"   Toshi Taiji 5:18
4. "Sadistic Desire"   Yoshiki Hide 6:09
5. "Give Me the Pleasure"   Yoshiki Hide, Taiji 2:57
6. "I'll Kill You"   Yoshiki Yoshiki 3:29
7. "Alive"   Yoshiki Yoshiki 8:24
8. "Kurenai"   Yoshiki Yoshiki 5:46
9. "Unfinished"   Yoshiki Yoshiki 1:32

[edit] References

  1. ^ Yang, Jeff; Can, Dina; Hong, Terry (1997). Eastern Standard Time. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, p. 264. ISBN 0-395-76341-X.