I'll Kill You

"I'll Kill You"
Single by X
Released June 1985
Recorded Sound Market
Genre Speed metal, power metal
Length 7:34
Label Dada
Producer(s) X and Nobukatsu Hayashi
X singles chronology
"I'll Kill You"
(1985)		 "Orgasm"
(1986)

"I'll Kill You" is the debut single by Japanese heavy metal band X Japan, then named X, released in June 1985.

Overview

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]

Track listing

Side A
No. TitleWriter(s) Length
1. "I'll Kill You"  Yoshiki Hayashi 3:21
Side B
No. TitleWriter(s) Length
1. "Break the Darkness"  Yoshiki Hayashi 4:13

Personnel

X
Production staff

References

  1. ↑ Kawamoto, Hirotake (June 1988). "Track by track analysis of Vanishing Vision by X". Rockin'f.
  2. ↑ "Indies eXplosion: The Early History of X JAPAN". JRock Revolution. 2007-10-29. Retrieved 2013-03-17.
  3. ↑ "HEAVY METAL FORCE III". Amazon.co.jp. Retrieved 2013-05-22.
  4. ↑ "リデンプション・プロセス". Amazon.co.jp. Retrieved 2011-11-13.
  5. ↑ "September E.P.". Amazon.co.jp. Retrieved 2013-03-17.
  6. ↑ "I'll Kill You" liner notes, 1985-06. Retrieved 2011-11-14.