is a 2003 compilation album by the Japanese punk band Balzac. It features re-recordings of songs from the band's first five studio albums: The Last Men on Earth (1995), Deep – Teenagers from Outer Space (1997), 13 Stairway – The Children of the Night (1998), Zennou-Naru Musuu-No Me Ha Shi Wo Yubi Sasu (2000), and Terrifying! Art of Dying – The Last Men on Earth II (2002). Beyond the Darkness was Balzac's first North American release.
Reception
Stewart Mason of AllMusic gave the album a score of four-and-a-half stars out of five, calling the choruses of the songs on the album "surprisingly catchy" and the album as a whole "a solidly entertaining overview of what they're [Balzac's] all about".
Track listing
DVD
"Beware of Darkness" "Yami-No Mukou-No Subete-Wo" "The Silence of Crows" "Out of the Blue" "Making of Beware of Darkness"