Violet (The Birthday Massacre album)

Violet
Studio album by The Birthday Massacre
Released	October 25, 2004
Recorded	2004
Genre	Synthrock New Wave Gothic Rock
Length	30:42 (EP) / 46.54 (LP)
Label	Metropolis Records Repo Records Hellion Records
Producer	Rainbow, M.Falcore, J.Aslan
The Birthday Massacre chronology
Nothing and Nowhere (2002) Violet (2004) Blue (2005)

Violet is an album by The Birthday Massacre. It was first released as an EP in 2004, then commercially released as an LP through Metropolis Records (North America/UK), Repo Records ^[1] (Europe) and Hellion Records (Brazil) in 2005 with some added tracks from their Nothing and Nowhere LP.

Track listing

EP Version

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
1.	"Prologue"		Rainbow, M. Falcore	0:37
2.	"Lovers End"	Rainbow, Chibi	Rainbow, M. Falcore	4:18
3.	"Violet"	Rainbow	Rainbow, M. Falcore	3:37
4.	"Red"		J. Aslan	1:17
5.	"Play Dead"	Rainbow, Chibi	Rainbow, M. Falcore	4:47
6.	"Blue"	Rainbow	Rainbow	4:29
7.	"Black"		J. Aslan	1:34
8.	"Holiday"	Rainbow, Chibi	Rainbow	5:15
9.	"Nevermind"	Rainbow	Rainbow, M. Falcore	4:45

LP Version

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
1.	"Prologue"		Rainbow, M. Falcore	0:38
2.	"Lovers End"	Rainbow, Chibi	Rainbow, M. Falcore	4:14
3.	"Happy Birthday"	Rainbow	Rainbow	3:39
4.	"Horror Show"	Rainbow	Rainbow, M. Falcore	4:06
5.	"Violet"	Rainbow	Rainbow, M. Falcore	3:37
6.	"Red"		J. Aslan	1:11
7.	"Play Dead"	Rainbow, Chibi	Rainbow, M. Falcore	4:47
8.	"Blue"	Rainbow	Rainbow	4:30
9.	"Video Kid"	Rainbow	Rainbow	4:34
10.	"The Dream"	Rainbow, Chibi	Rainbow, M. Falcore	3:51
11.	"Black"		J. Aslan	1:29
12.	"Holiday"	Rainbow, Chibi	Rainbow	5:14
13.	"Nevermind"	Rainbow	Rainbow, M. Falcore	4:36

Release history

Country	Date
Germany	October 25, 2004
Canada	August 9, 2005
Japan
United States
United Kingdom	September 12, 2005
France	November 29, 2005

Credits

• Chibi - Vocals
• Rainbow - Guitar and Programming
• Michael Falcore - Lead Guitar
• J. Aslan - Bass
• Rhim - Drums

Album reviews

• Allmusic link

Notes

• The LP version was originally released in Europe on Repo Records in 2004.
• Tracks "Happy Birthday", "Horror Show", "Video Kid" and "The Dream" are all somewhat reworked versions of their equivalents on the band's previous album Nothing and Nowhere.
• Videos for both "Blue" and "Nevermind" were produced. "Blue" is an elaborate story-based video while "Nevermind" is a straightforward performance video, both of which were released on the "Blue DVD".
• Although the track list on the CD labels the final track as "Nevermind," if burned on iTunes, the track will be titled "Neverland."
• The band recorded a cover of The Neverending Story theme for the album, but left it off after not being pleased with the final result. The only existing version of the song is a low quality mp3 that can be found on P2P file sharing systems, or on their original EP under the name Imagica.
• On the 2004 release of Violet, Adm is pictured in the booklet as the keyboardist. On the 2005 re-release, he is removed from the booklet picture because he had left the band by that time.

1. ^ "Repo Records". http://reporecords.de/tbm.htm.