Mozaiq
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Mozaiq is the fourth studio album
Studio album
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 by the metal
Heavy metal music
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 band, Blood Stain Child
Blood Stain Child
Blood Stain Child is a Japanese melodic death metal band from the city of Osaka. The band's musical style combines modern melodic death metal with electro-industrial and trance or as they call it 'hybrid metal trance'...

. It was released on July 18, 2007 in Japan
Japan
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 and was released on 20 July, 2007 in Europe
Europe
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. Mozaiq contains 11 tracks plus an extra track that differs; for Japan "Ez do dance" a cover after TRF
TRF (band)
TRF is a Japanese pop/dance group. Its members are rapper DJ Koo, lead vocalist Yu-ki, and dancers Chiharu, Etsu, and Sam.-History:...

 and for Europe "Cosmic Highway".

Style

Mozaiq is more techno-trance
Trance music
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 influenced than all their previous materials, stating that it "is really about breaking down the boundaries of what we refer to as Heavy Music". It contains more clean vocals, especially on "Neo-Gothic Romance". Track "Metropolice" is build upon female vocal samples. Instrumentation is lower-paced than on their previous works, especially their debut album, and synths sometimes cross into industrial
Industrial music
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/eurodance
Eurodance
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 territory.

Track listing

  1. "Exotic-6-Coordinator" − 3:36
  2. "Cyber Green" − 3:20
  3. "Freedom" − 4:16
  4. "Energy Blast" − 3:47
  5. "Pitch Black Room" − 4:15
  6. "Another Dimension" − 3:44
  7. "Metropolice" − 4:00
  8. "C.E.0079" − 4:42
  9. "Innocence" − 3:32
  10. "Peacemaker" − 3:33
  11. "Neo-Gothic-Romance" − 3:57
  12. "Ez Do Dance" (Bonus track, Japan
    Japan
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    ) (TRF
    TRF (band)
    TRF is a Japanese pop/dance group. Its members are rapper DJ Koo, lead vocalist Yu-ki, and dancers Chiharu, Etsu, and Sam.-History:...

     cover) − 4:00
  13. "Cosmic Highway" (Bonus track, Europe
    Europe
    Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...

     and USA) − 3:07
  14. "Nuclear Trance" (Bonus track, Korea
    Korea
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    ) − 5:06

Videography

A video
Music video
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for "Freedom" was shot which can be viewed here. The video shows the band playing apparently in the dark at night near an enormous beacon. Towards the end of the video, it brightens up and turns into day.

Band

  • Sadew − Death Vocals, Clean Vocals
  • Ryo − Bass, Death Vocals, Clean Vocals
  • Ryu Kuriyama − Guitars, Clean Vocals
  • G.S.R − Guitars
  • Aki − Keyboards, Clean Vocals
  • Violator − Drums
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