Dahlia (album)

Dahlia (album)

Dahlia is the fifth, and final, studio album by Japanese heavy metal band X Japan. The album was released on November 4, 1996, by Atlantic Records. It is the band's last before breaking up the following year, and the last to feature new work by guitarist hide, due to his death two years later. The album is composed largely of ballads, with only a few tracks retaining the band's heavier musical traits seen on previous releases. It topped the Oricon chart and stayed on the chart for only 15 weeks, but managed to sell over half a million copies. Seven, nearly all, of the album's songs were released as singles, most of which also topped the singles chart and sold well.