''A Dead Sinking Story'' is an album by the

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ese band

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. The album was released on August 18, 2003 on

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. It is their only album recorded with three guitarists; Daichi Takasugi joined before the creation of the album and left after the related tour.

Track listing

Personnel

*Dairoku Seki – Drums *Tetsuya Fukagawa – Sequencer, Vocals *Nobukata Kawai – Guitar *Masahiro Tobita – Guitar *Manabu Nakagawa – Bass Guitar *Daichi Takasugi – Guitar *Takashi Kitaguchi – Engineering *Tatsuya Kase – Mastering

Reception

Reception was almost uniformly positive, with

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, and Punknews.org all praising the album's hybrid of

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, and

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References

* 2003 albums Level Plane Records albums Envy (band) albums {{2000s-punk-album-stub