Dio -Distraught Overlord- Interview in Cure vol. 50 (9.2007) Scans + Interview Summary
This interview focuses primarily on the band's single 『白夜ニ燃ユル花〜汝、我は全能の者也〜』 (Byakuya ni Moyuru Hana ~Nanji, Ware wa Zennou no Mono Nari~)
断頭台は誰が為に揺れる~汝、我は全能の者也 編~ (Dantoudai wa Ta ga Tame ni Yureru ~Nanji, Ware wa Zennou no Mono Nari hen~)
Erina says this song was originally distributed for free at the band's first one-man live. The band reworked it and sped up the temp.
denka: "Performing this song drains an insane amount of physical stamina, so with the mindset of 'let's get this recording done quickly,' we recorded it in a single take."
抱いて眠れ絶望 (Daite Nemure Zetsubou)
Erina: "This wasn't actually included in the initially, but when we wrote it, we urgently swapped out a track we had already finished recording for it."
ivy: "For this song, I actually layered and recorded two bass tracks. I want people to feel the unsettling creepiness created by having two of them ring out."
mikaru: "The entire track is driven by the word 'zetsubou' (despair) in the lyrics. I want people to feel that it is precisely within that despair where paradise exists."
夢は瓦礫の中に (Yume wa Gareki no Naka ni)
erina: "We've been playing this song since the relatively early days of forming Dio, and it's a personal favorite of mine. However, because it's quite long, it's not suited for event lives, so we don't get a chance to perform it unless it's a long stage like a one-man live."
mikaru: "However, it became a precious song—the only one in Dio that shows an optimistic direction where you can catch a glimpse of hope for the future. Precisely because it's a song we created in our early days, the lyrics turn out showing hope for the future. If it were now, these are lyrics that absolutely 'would not exist'."
Ivy: "As for the bass, this song took the most time. When we started recording on the first day, I couldn't come up with a guitar part I was satisfied with, so I re-worked and re-imagined it over and over again. Even after spending 8 hours on it, I couldn't make anything I was happy with, so I threw my bass down for the day… (laughs)."
erina: "This is the primary track of this release. To the extent that I feel it's near the top rank of all the songs I've composed so far, it's a melodic track that I personally love."
mikaru: "This is a superb love song. The theme is 'bereavement.' A person who is left behind completely shatters their own sanity due to overwhelming sadness... The key words are 'sleep' and 'magic'."
erina: "The shoot for 'day after day' took place on location at a certain famous forest (jukai). We started in the afternoon and finished late at night. While dealing with things like getting warned by the police (laughs), we spent a total of about 23 hours shooting two videos."
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