Misanthropy Pure is the third studio album by hardcore punk

Hardcore punk

Hardcore punk is an underground music genre that originated in the late 1970s, following the mainstream success of punk rock. Hardcore is generally faster, thicker, and heavier than earlier punk rock. The origin of the term "hardcore punk" is uncertain. The Vancouver-based band D.O.A...

 band Shai Hulud

Shai Hulud (band)

Shai Hulud is an American hardcore punk band with progressive metal influences, originally formed in Pompano Beach, Florida, the band later moved up to Poughkeepsie, New York....

, released on May 26 in Europe (except in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Italy, where it arrived on May 30) and May 27 in the U.S. through Metal Blade Records

Metal Blade Records

Metal Blade Records is a record label which was founded by Brian Slagel in 1982. The U.S. corporate office for Metal Blade is located in Agoura Hills, California. It also has offices in Arizona, Germany, Japan, Canada, and the UK. The label is distributed in the U.S. by Sony BMG Music...

, the band's first record release by that label. It has been described as the blender between 1997's Hearts Once Nourished with Hope and Compassion

Hearts Once Nourished with Hope and Compassion

Hearts Once Nourished with Hope and Compassion is the first full length album by hardcore punk band Shai Hulud, released on November 4, 1997, on the Revelation Records' subsidiary, Crisis Records, in CD/LP and 12" clear brown . It is now sold through Revelation Records. It was reissued in a...

and 2003's That Within Blood Ill-Tempered

That Within Blood Ill-Tempered

That Within Blood Ill-Tempered is the second studio album by hardcore punk band Shai Hulud. It was released on May 20, 2003, through Revelation Records on CD and 300 pressings on LP format. A picture disc was released through Matt Fox's At Dawn We Wage War Records on March 30, 2004, with 1100...

, by Shai Hulud's guitarist, Matt Fox

Matthew Fox (musician)

Matt Fox is an American musician, founding member and a current lead guitarist for the hardcore punk band Shai Hulud and his side project Zombie Apocalypse....

:

"It's faster, slower, more metal

Heavy metal music

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, less metal, more rock

Rock music

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, more progressive

Progressive metal

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, and less progressive than anything we've ever done. It's like that movie 'Deep Blue Sea

Deep Blue Sea

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'. The tagline on the DVD box is 'Bigger. Faster. Smarter. Meaner.' That's how this record is. Is it the best thing we've ever done? I don't know. We'll leave that to those who listen."

A music video was made for the song "Misanthropy Pure

Misanthropy Pure (song)

Misanthropy Pure is the debut single from the hardcore punk band Shai Hulud off their third album Misanthropy Pure.A music video was made for the song, directed by David Brodsky. The video aired a number of times on MTV2's Headbanger's Ball and was chosen as viewer's choice. It features...

", first shown on MTV2

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's Headbangers Ball

Headbangers Ball

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on May 22, 2008.

Track listing

1. Venomspreader - 1:45
2. The Creation Ruin - 3:16
3. Misanthropy Pure
   Misanthropy Pure (song)
   Misanthropy Pure is the debut single from the hardcore punk band Shai Hulud off their third album Misanthropy Pure.A music video was made for the song, directed by David Brodsky. The video aired a number of times on MTV2's Headbanger's Ball and was chosen as viewer's choice. It features...
   
    - 4:28
4. We Who Finish Last - 3:08
5. Chorus of the Dissimilar - 3:34
6. In the Mind and Marrow - 4:47
7. To Bear The Brunt of Many Blades - 3:35
8. Four Earths - 5:10
9. Set Your Body Ablaze - 3:20
10. Be Winged - 2:15
11. Cold Lord Quietus/They Congregate to Mourn/The Persecution of Every Next Breath/Go Forth to Life - 6:35

Credits

• Matt Mazzali - vocals
  Screaming (music)
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• Matt Fox
  Matthew Fox (musician)
  Matt Fox is an American musician, founding member and a current lead guitarist for the hardcore punk band Shai Hulud and his side project Zombie Apocalypse....
  
   - guitar
  Electric guitar
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  , producer
• Matthew Fletcher
  Matthew Fletcher (musician)
  "Mad" Matt Fletcher is an American musician, and the current bassist for the hardcore band Shai Hulud, since 1999, and his side project with founding Shai Hulud member Matthew Fox, Zombie Apocalypse...
  
   - bass guitar
  Bass guitar
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• Andrew Gormley
  Andrew Gormley
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   - drums
  Drum kit
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• Greg Thomas
  Greg Thomas
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   - engineer, co-producer
• Dave Quiggle - artwork
• Recorded in Silver Bullet Media
  Silver Bullet Media
  Silver Bullet Studios is located in Burlington, Connecticut, and was opened in 2004 by Greg Thomas. The band Kingdom of Sorrow started writing their first songs at Silver Bullet in 2005. The 2008 Shai Hulud album Misanthropy Pure was recorded here...
  
  , Connecticut
• Mixed by Eric Rachel at Trax East

Release history

Country	Release date
Europe
United States
Worldwide