NOBLE

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Versailles 1st album: NOBLE
Release date:
2008.07.16, 2008.10.21 (America), 2008.09.30 (reissue), 2008.07.09 (iTunes)
Label:
Sherow Artist Society, CLJ Records (Europe), MaruMusic (America)
Catalog number:
SASCD-038, SASCD-045, CLJ 8837-2.2, MAR-004
Price: 3,675 yen, 16.99 €, 11.98 $, 3,150 yen (reissue)
Length: 57 minutes
Ranking: #42 (normal chart), #4→#15→#20 (indies chart), #5 (iTunes rock chart)
 
Versailles first full-length album. Three songs had been already released in the live-only single A Noble was Born in Chaos, while
The Revenant Choir is a re-recorded version of the original track. The PV for Aristocrat's Symphony available with the first press has been re-released in the history DVD History of the Other Side.

tracklist

01.

Prelude

(1:33)

 

 

(music: KAMIJO)    

02.

Aristocrat's Symphony

(6:15)

[lyrics]

 

(music: KAMIJO/lyrics: KAMIJO)    

03.

Antique in the Future

(4:56)

[lyrics]

 

(music: KAMIJO/lyrics: KAMIJO)    

04.

Second Fear -Another Descendant-

(3:08)

[lyrics]

 

(music: TERU/lyrics: KAMIJO)    

05.

zombie

(3:52)

[lyrics]

 

(music: TERU/lyrics: KAMIJO)    

06

After Cloudia

(4:53)

[lyrics]

 

(music: HIZAKI/lyrics: KAMIJO)    

07.

windress

(4:28)

[lyrics]

 

(music: HIZAKI/lyrics: KAMIJO)    

08.

The Revenant Choir

(7:00)

[lyrics]

 

(music: Versailles/lyrics: KAMIJO)    

09.

To The Chaos Inside

(3:14)

[lyrics]

 

(music: TERU/lyrics: KAMIJO)    

10.

SUZERAIN

(4:20)

[lyrics]

 

(music: HIZAKI/lyrics: KAMIJO)    

11.

History of the Other Side

(9:38)

[lyrics]

 

(music: HIZAKI/lyrics: KAMIJO)    

12.

Episode

(3:10)

[lyrics]

 

(music: KAMIJO/lyrics: KAMIJO)    

13.

The Revenant Choir (Original Version) (Bonus Track)

(8:51)

[lyrics]

 

(music: Versailles/lyrics: KAMIJO)    

13.

PRINCE (Bonus Track)

(4:56)

[lyrics]

 

(music: KAMIJO & HIZAKI/lyrics: KAMIJO)    
 
DVD
   

01.

Prelude    

 

(music: KAMIJO)    

02.

Aristocrat's Symphony   [lyrics]

 

(music: KAMIJO/lyrics: KAMIJO)    

03.

Episode   [lyrics]

 

(music: KAMIJO/lyrics: KAMIJO)    

CREDITS

Vocals: KAMIJO
Guitar: HIZAKI
Guitar: TERU
Bass: Jasmine You
Drums: YUKI
 
Guest Piano (M-12): Kazami (DaizyStripper)
Guest Keyboard (M-6): NAOMI
 
Recording engineer: Tsukasa Okamoto (Innig Recording Hostelry), Tetsuya Tochigi
Mix engineer: Tsukasa Okamoto (Innig Recording Hostelry)

Recording studios: APPLAUSE RECORDS STUDIO, BAZOOKA STUDIO, MIMANI-AOYAMA RDSTUDIO
Mixing studio: APPLAUSE RECORDS STUDIO
Mastering engineer: Yukio Kobashi (HEART BEAT RECORDING STUDIO)
Mastering studio: HEART BEAT RECORDING STUDIO MASTERING ROOM B

Video Production: Yamashita Yoko Inc., EME, Music Band's LTD.
Camera crew: Yusuke Omori (BANDS-AID), Kenjirou Ogawa (BANDS-AID), Yuuki "Gori" Yoshikawa (BANDS-AID)
Camera staff: Junpei Omori (BANDS-AID), Rie Kitamura (BANDS-AID), Chie Watanabe (BANDS-AID)
Video edit director: Tomohiro Hatamoto, Kenjirou Ogawa

Guitar & bass tech: Seiji Hiroshima (ESP)
Equipment support: Takashi Shinji (ESP), Yuichi Sugata (ESP), Keiichiro Kawamata (FREAKS MARKET)

Promotion: Delacroix/RECSIS INC.
Promotion staff: Ayako Oda (Delacroix), Hirotsugu Imanaka (Digex), Nahoko Togo, Roger Shackelford (Tainted Reality/USA)
Management: Mayumi Kojima (Delacroix), Hiroki Yamashita (Delacroix), Ayaka Yamazaki (Delacroix)

Photographer: Takaaki Henmi
Art director: wait a minutes (Sherow Artist Society)
Image model: Mia Danbron

Hair & make-up: Eriko Matsumoto (APT), Reno Nakamura
Costume design: Sawako Sato (ID-JAPAN)
Costume supervisor: Hidefumi Sato (ID-JAPAN)
Costume production: ID-JAPAN C.C.P

Label chief producer: MTK.TONE (Sherow Artist Society)
Support crew: Enya, Aya, Chisei (Sherow Artist Society)
Supervisor: MTK.TONE (Sherow Artist Society)
Executive producer: KAMIJO (Sherow Artist Society)
Special thanks: Descendant of the Rose

 

 

© Sherow Artist Society All rights reserved.

Contents by Loire. Layout by Lucifer.

  

editions

 


*Sold-out

First Press*
2008.07.16
SASCD-038

 

Deluxe press with additional 32-page booklet, slipcase and bonus DVD. CD features 12 tracks. The first copies came with a band logo sticker and a coupon for pre-ordering tickets for the December 23th oneman.
 

European Edition
2008.07.16
CLJ8837-2.2
 

Comes with the bonus DVD and the bonus track "The Revenant Choir (Original Version), taken from the first single. Also included an additional booklet with lyric translations.
 

Second Press
2008.09.30
SASCD-045
 
Comes with the bonus track "PRINCE" but without the bonus DVD and deluxe package of the first press.

American Edition
2009.10.21
MAR-004
 

Come with both the bonus DVD and the bonus track "PRINCE".

OFFICIAL STORE BONUSES

 

Jishuban Club: signed A4 portrait, one member comment DVD shot in Texas.

Brand-X: postcard, comment DVD

Like an Edison: signed photoset, one member comment DVD shot in Los Angeles.
Closet child: postcard, comment DVD

disk union: official guitar pick, signed photo set

Tower Records: 2 random trading cards
Shinseidou: 2 random trading cards
Third Stage:
signed postcard, comment CD-R

CDJapan/NeoWing: postcard
ZEAL LINK: comment DVD

Pure Sound: postcard, comment DVD

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