Beyond the Darkness

Beyond the Darkness (闇を超えて) is a 2003 compilation album by the Japanese punk band Balzac. It features re-recordings of songs from the band's first five studio albums: The Last Men on Earth (1995), Deep – Teenagers from Outer Space (1997), 13 Stairway – The Children of the Night (1998), Zennou-Naru Musuu-No Me Ha Shi Wo Yubi Sasu (2000), and Terrifying! Art of Dying – The Last Men on Earth II (2002). Beyond the Darkness was Balzac's first North American release.

Reception
Stewart Mason of AllMusic gave the album a score of four-and-a-half stars out of five, calling the choruses of the songs on the album "surprisingly catchy" and the album as a whole "a solidly entertaining overview of what they're [Balzac's] all about".

DVD

 * 1) "Beware of Darkness"
 * 2) "Yami-No Mukou-No Subete-Wo"
 * 3) "The Silence of Crows"
 * 4) "Out of the Blue"
 * 5) "Making of Beware of Darkness"

Personnel
Balzac
 * Atsushi Nakagawa – lead guitar
 * Akio Imai – bass guitar
 * Hirosuke Nishiyama – lead vocals, art direction
 * Takayuki Yasuda – drums, programming

Production
 * Tetsuya Kotani – engineer
 * Akihiko Takenaka – mastering
 * Mikito Sakuhana – assistant
 * Jerry Only – executive producer
 * John Cafiero – liner notes, executive producer