''the WORLD Ruler'' is
Nightmare's fourth full-length studio album. Nightmare's experimentation with the styles of
electronica,
ambience, and usage of live brass began in this album. Three different versions of this album were released: a CD-only version; a CD+DVD version; and a bonus CD, DVD and photobook pack. It peaked at #6 in the
Oricon
, established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan and Western music. It started as, which was founded by Sōkō Koike in ...
Charts.
The tracks "The World" and "Alumina" were featured in
Death Note as the first opening and ending songs, respectively.
Track listing
Single Information
* ''theWORLD''/
:''Released'': October 18, 2006
:''Oricon Chart Peak Position'': #5
:"The WORLD" and "Alumina" were used as the first opening and ending theme, respectively, for the anime
Death Note.
Covers
"the WORLD" was covered by Fantôme Iris, a fictional visual kei band from multimedia franchise
Argonavis from BanG Dream!
''From Argonavis'' (stylized as ''from ARGONAVIS'', originally titled ''Argonavis from BanG Dream!'' in 2018–2021) is a Japanese multimedia project by Bushiroad. An anime television series by Sanzigen aired from April 10 to July 3, 2020 o ...
and added in the game started on January 14, 2021.
The full version of the song will be featured on ''Argonavis Cover Collection -Mix-'' which will be released on November 17, 2021.
References
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2006 albums
Nightmare (Japanese band) albums