Released June 1985 Length 7:34 Writer(s) Yoshiki Hayashi | Recorded Sound Market Label Dada | |
Producer(s) X and Nobukatsu Hayashi | ||
"I'll Kill You" is the debut single by Japanese heavy metal band X Japan, then named X, released in June 1985.
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In 1988, Yoshiki explained that the song is not about killing people as the title would suggest, but is a love song in the vein of a disgruntled married couple. All 1,000 copies of the record sold out. The cover art notoriously features numerous photographs of dead bodies taken during the Vietnam War.
A different recording of the B-side, "Break the Darkness", was included on the sampler Heavy Metal Force III in November 1985. While a re-recording of the title track was later featured on the band's first album, Vanishing Vision. "I'll Kill You" was covered by French symphonic black metal band Anorexia Nervosa as a bonus track for the Japanese edition of their 2004 album Redemption Process and later included on their 2005 The September E.P. as well.