"Half-Truism" is a punk rock

Punk rock

Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...

 song by The Offspring

The Offspring

The Offspring is an American punk rock band from Huntington Beach, California, formed in 1984. Known as Manic Subsidal until 1986, the band consists of lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist Dexter Holland, lead guitarist Kevin "Noodles" Wasserman, bassist Greg K. and drummer Pete Parada...

. The song is featured as the opening track on the band's eighth studio album Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace (2008) and was released as the fourth single from the album on May 12, 2009.

Premiere

Half-Truism was first premiered before the release of the album at the Australian Soundwave Festival

Soundwave Festival

Soundwave Festival, held every year at the Scarborough Spa Ocean Room, Scarborough, UK, is a music and arts festival created by the DIY Collective, a group of young people from around the Scarborough area. It was first held in 1999 on South Bay Beach, Scarborough and was moved to the Spa Complex...

. It was the second song from the album to be played live (the first being "Hammerhead" which was played in 2007 at the Summersonic festival).

Charts

Chart	Peak position
ARG Argentina FM Rock & Pop 95.5	14
U.S. Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks	30
U.S. Billboard Hot Modern Rock Tracks	21

In popular culture

• Half-Truism is featured as a playable song in the video game Guitar Hero On Tour: Modern Hits.
• The song also appears in the commercial for the 2009 Virgin Tour.

Personnel

• Dexter Holland
  Dexter Holland
  Bryan Keith "Dexter" Holland is the singer and rhythm guitarist for the California punk rock band The Offspring...
  
   - lead vocals, rhythm guitar
  Rhythm guitar
  Rhythm guitar is a technique and rôle that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with singers or other instruments; and to provide all or part of the harmony, ie. the chords, where a chord is a group of notes played together...
  
  
• Kevin 'Noodles' Wasserman
  Kevin 'Noodles' Wasserman
  Kevin John Wasserman , best known by his stage name Noodles, is the lead guitarist and backing vocalist for The Offspring.-Biography:...
  
   - lead guitar
  Lead guitar
  Lead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure...
  
  , backing vocals
• Greg Kriesel
  Greg Kriesel
  Gregory David Kriesel , best known by his stage name Greg K., is an American bass guitarist and backing vocalist for the punk band, The Offspring.-Biography:...
  
   - bass guitar
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  , backing vocals
• Josh Freese
  Josh Freese
  Josh Freese is an American session drummer and songwriter. He is a permanent member of A Perfect Circle, The Vandals, and Devo, having formerly played drums for Nine Inch Nails from late 2005 until late 2008, and for Guns N' Roses from mid-1998 to 2001. Freese has appeared on close to 300 records....
  
   - drums