This Is Love, This Is Murderous is the third album by American metalcore

Metalcore

Metalcore is a subgenre of heavy metal combining various elements of extreme metal and hardcore punk. The name is a portmanteau of the names of the two genres. The term took on its current meaning in the mid-1990s, describing bands such as Earth Crisis, Deadguy and Integrity...

 band Bleeding Through

Bleeding Through

Bleeding Through is an American metalcore band from Orange County, California. Formed in 1999, the band blends influences stemming from modern hardcore punk, symphonic black metal, and melodic death metal...

 released in 2003. It is their Trustkill Records

Trustkill Records

Trustkill Records was an American record label that started as a hardcore punk fanzine in April 1993. It started releasing hardcore, metal and rock records and merchandise in 1994...

 debut. It has sold more than 125,000 copies since its release.

Audio clips in the beginning of "Love Lost in A Hail of Gunfire" and "Revenge I Seek" were taken from the cult movie The Boondock Saints

The Boondock Saints

The Boondock Saints is a 1999 American action comedy film written and directed by Troy Duffy. The film stars Sean Patrick Flanery and Norman Reedus as Irish fraternal twins, Connor and Murphy MacManus, who become vigilantes after killing two members of the Russian Mafia in self-defense...

.

Music video

Music video

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s were made for the songs "Love Lost in a Hail of Gun Fire" and "On Wings of Lead". "Love Lost in a Hail of Gun Fire" is also available in a censored form on the MTV2 Headbanger's Ball: Volume 2 collection (this is the same edit as the video version).

Track listing

1. "Love Lost in a Hail of Gun Fire" – 4:57
2. "Sweet Vampirous" – 1:24
3. "Number Seven with a Bullet" – 5:07
4. "On Wings of Lead" – 5:21
5. "What I Bleed Without You" – 3:05
6. "This Is Love, This Is Murderous" – 4:30
7. "City of the Condemned" – 3:23
8. "Mutilation" – 3:47
9. "Murder by Numbers" – 3:30
10. "Dead Like Me" – 3:30
11. "Shadow Walker" – 2:01
12. "Revenge I Seek" – 4:21

The album was re-released on January 25, 2005 in a limited edition double disc format. It includes special O-Card packaging and the following extras on the second disc:

Personnel

• Brandan Schieppati
  Brandan Schieppati
  Brandan Schieppati is the singer of metalcore band Bleeding Through. He is Straight Edge and lives in Orange County with his wife Nicole. While best known through his musical career, he was also a late-round draft pick for Major League Baseball's Montreal Expos out of high school, around 1998...
  
   - vocals
  Singing
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  , guitar
  Guitar
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• Scott Danough
  Scott Danough
  Scott Danough is a co-founder and former guitar player for Bleeding Through. Scott played with Bleeding Through from its foundation in 1999 and appeared on the albums Dust to Ashes, Portrait of the Goddess, This is Love, This is Murderous, and The Truth. In April 2007 Scott and Bleeding Through...
  
   - guitar
• Brian Leppke
  Brian Leppke
  Bleeding Through's left-handed guitar player Brian "Lefty" Leppke joined the band in 2001 replacing Chad Tafolla. He has recorded five albums with the band including 2002's Portrait Of The Goddess, 2004's This is Love, This is Murderous, 2006's The Truth, 2008's Declaration, and 2010's Bleeding...
  
   - guitar
• Marta Peterson - keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
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• Molly Street - credited keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
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• Ryan Wombacher - bass
  Bass guitar
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• Derek Youngsma
  Derek Youngsma
  Current drummer for the Orange County, CA metalcore band Bleeding Through. Formally of Cast in Stone, Youngsma joined the band prior the band's second release 2002's Portrait Of The Goddess. He replaced Troy Born. He is also Christian, Straight Edge and married.-References:...
  
   - drums
  Drum kit
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• Biggie - road crew
• Case One - vocal group
• Ryan Downey - backing vocals
• Heather Finch - model
• Jeff Gros - photography
• Don Clark - layout design
• Mike Milford - vocal group
• R Dub - road crew
• Shawn Sullivan - engineer
• Ulrich Wild
  Ulrich Wild
  Ulrich Wild is an American record producer, engineer and mixer specializing in the rock and metal genres. Born and raised in Switzerland, Ulrich is now a naturalized citizen living in Los Angeles...
  
   - producer, mastering, mixing
• Ryan Wilson
  Ryan Wilson
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   - model, vocal group
• Shalon Wyllie - road crew

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

Year	Chart	Position
2003	Top Heatseekers	45
2003	Top Independent Albums	43