Gauze (album)

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Gauze
Studio album by Dir En Grey
Released	July 28, 1999 (1999-07-28)
Studio	Warner Music Greenbird One Voice Komazawa Epicurus Tokyo Bay Victor One on One (Los Angeles)
Genre	Alternative rock pop rock
Length	64:47
Language	Japanese English German
Label	East West Japan
Producer	Dir En Grey Yoshiki
Dir En Grey chronology
Missa (1997) Gauze (1999) Macabre (2000)
Alternative cover
2001 re-issue cover
Singles from Gauze
"Akuro no Oka" Released: January 20, 1999 "Yurameki" Released: January 20, 1999 "Zan" Released: January 20, 1999 "Cage" Released: May 26, 1999 "Yokan" Released: July 14, 1999

Gauze (stylized as GAUZE) is the debut studio album by Japanese heavy metal band Dir En Grey. The album was originally released on July 28, 1999, as a standard version with a thick CD case, 36-page booklet with the CD reading surface painted red, through East West Japan. An initial limited version was released on the same day, including a translucent red sleeve with a cloud pattern, 12-page picture booklet, a 36-page lyrics booklet, and the red painted CD in a maxi-CD single case for a sticker price of ¥3,059 ($27.87). The album was later re-issued as standard version only, with a silver disc on October 31, 2001, through Free-Will. Five tracks were produced by X Japan co-founder Yoshiki Hayashi,^[3] all of which had been previously released as singles.

The lyrics booklet features two pages for each song; one features the lyrics, while the facing page features a picture and a small poem or verse, as a companion piece.