"Silent Jealousy" is a single released by X Japan

X Japan

is a Japanese heavy metal band founded in 1982 by Yoshiki and Toshi. Originally named X , the group achieved their breakthrough success in 1989 with the release of their second album Blue Blood...

 (then named X) on September 11, 1991. The song's structure is comparable to "Kurenai

Kurenai (song)

is the major label debut single released by X Japan on September 1, 1989. Originally featured on the band's debut album Vanishing Vision, this version is more similar to the re-recording for the album Blue Blood, but is still slightly different...

", opening with a calm intro, performed on a single instrument, followed by a speed metal

Speed metal

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 composition with symphonic

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 elements. It also includes a short excerpt of Tchaikovsky

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

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's "Swan Lake

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" during the piano

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-driven bridge

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The B-side is an alternate version of "Sadistic Desire", originally featured on the band's debut album Vanishing Vision

Vanishing Vision

Vanishing Vision is the debut album of X Japan and was released on April 14, 1988 on Yoshiki's own label, Extasy Records, selling over 800,000 copies. Included are early versions of the songs "Kurenai" and "Unfinished" which would later be rerecorded for the band's second album Blue Blood.-Track...

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Live recordings of "Silent Jealousy" can be found on the "Say Anything" single and various releases featuring the band's Tokyo Dome

Tokyo Dome

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 performance on January 7, 1992, as part of the three-day concert series On the Verge of Destruction

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.

Australia

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n metal band Lord

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 covered the title song as a bonus track on the Japanese version of their 2007 album Ascendence

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, with vocals performed by Hideaki Niwa. Finnish power metal band Sonata Arctica

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 also covered part of the song during one of the concerts on their Japanese tour. It also served as wrestler Chris Jericho

Chris Jericho

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's one night entrance song for his return to Japan.

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