Despite being an independent record label, it sold more than ten thousand copies, topping Oricon's indie music chart.

[2] A September 4 show at Kyoto Sports Valley,[2] is a popular bootleg recording of the tour, however, only audio of "Stab Me in the Back" from it was officially released, being included on the 1999 Perfect Best compilation.

[6][7] The album's title, Vanishing Vision, was chosen to mean the band was shedding the shameless image they had acquired for a fresh start.

Its cover art drawn by Shiro Nishiguchi was inspired by the track "Sadistic Desire", with input from each band member.

Taiji wrote the 16-beat rhythm, slap bass song "Give Me the Pleasure" after watching a news report on a murder.

The piece is unusual for X in that it uses minor seventh chords and has an ethnic drum beat that also used instruments such as the timbales and cow bell.

"[8] The lyrics for this version of "Kurenai" are entirely in English, it would later appear mostly in Japanese on Blue Blood and be released as their major debut single, becoming one of their signature songs.