1992 marked the fifth anniversary of Buck-Tick’s major label debut

1992 marked the fifth anniversary of Buck-Tick’s major label debut. While a “best-of” compilation album was considered to celebrate the occasion, some members of the band wanted to create a new album. They instead released the self-cover album Koroshi no Shirabe: This Is Not Greatest Hits in March. The band had spent many hours in the studio re-recording, and in some cases radically changing, songs they had previously released. After the album’s three-month-long tour ran from March to May, the band took a break to plan their next move. A two-day live event called Climax Together was held at Yokohama Arena on September 10 and 11. The event had been put together specifically to be filmed with innovative camera angles, and great care was taken with the lighting and design—for greater dramatic effect, the stage was even set up along the long side of the hall and obscured by a gigantic scrim which was dropped partway through the set.