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, released on August 30, 2000. It was the band's last original studio album before a prolonged hiatus. It reached number one on the

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chart and sold over a million copies, being certified by the

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. The album cover features a photo taken by Mote Sinabel of a gargoyle found on the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France. One of the singles from the album, "

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* hyde –

vocals Singing is the art of creating music with the voice. It is the oldest form of musical expression, and the human voice can be considered the first musical instrument. The definition of singing varies across sources. Some sources define sing ...

rhythm guitar In music performances, rhythm guitar is a guitar technique and role that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse (music), pulse in conjunction with other instruments from the rhythm section (e.g., d ...

on track 2, keyboards on track 11 * ken –

guitar The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with Fretless guitar, some exceptions) and typically has six or Twelve-string guitar, twelve strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming ...

, keyboards on tracks 3, 5, 6, 10, 11 *

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bass guitar The bass guitar (), also known as the electric bass guitar, electric bass, or simply the bass, is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family. It is similar in appearance and construction to an Electric guitar, electric but with a longer nec ...

backing vocals A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are us ...

, keyboards on tracks 6 and 7 * yukihiro –

drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

, keyboards on track 1 * K – female voice on tracks 2 and 10 * Hajime Okano – keyboards on tracks 3, 5, 6, 7 and 11 * Hitoshi Saitou – keyboards on tracks 6, 7 and 11 * Cheiko – backing vocals on track 3 * Nobuhiko Nakayama –

synthesizer A synthesizer (also synthesiser or synth) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals. Synthesizers typically create sounds by generating waveforms through methods including subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis a ...

on track 4 * Ittetsu Gen – strings on track 6 * Yasushi Nakanishi –

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