Gauze (album)

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 ($). 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, 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.

Personnel
Musicians
 * Dir En Grey – producer, arrangements
 * Kyo – vocals, lyricist
 * Kaoru – guitar
 * Die – guitar
 * Toshiya – bass guitar
 * Shinya – drums
 * Shelly Berg – violin ("Akuro no Oka")
 * Baez FX. - breathing (Zan)

Additional chorus on Schwein no isu on Mazohyst Of Decadence
 * Matsuyama
 * Mikio
 * Okuyama
 * Ōsaka
 * Shintani
 * You (Death Side)
 * Zigyaku
 * バンチUFO
 * Kazue Tatsumi

Technique
 * Yoshiki – producer, arrangements ("Yurameki", "Cage", "Yokan", "-Zan-" and "Akuro no Oka")
 * Toru Yamazaki – co-producer ("Yurameki", "Cage", "Yokan", "-Zan-" and "Akuro no Oka")
 * Dynamite Tommy, Toshiyuki Takano, Norio Higuchi, and Takeyasu Hashizume – executive producers
 * Joe Chiccarelli – mixing (on Yurameki)
 * Eric Westfall – (on Cage)
 * Bill Kennedy – (on Zan)
 * Stan Katayama – (on Akuro no Oka)
 * Shelly Berg, Tom Halm & Yoshiki – string arrangements ("Cage" and "Akuro no Oka")
 * Michio – artwork