Misanthropy Pure
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| Studio album by Shai Hulud | |||||
| Released |  May 26, 2008 May 27, 2008 May 30, 2008 |
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| Recorded | 2006-2007 at Silver Bullet Media in Burlington, Connecticut | ||||
| Genre | Metalcore[1] Hardcore punk Progressive Metal |
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| Length | 41:53 | ||||
| Label | Metal Blade | ||||
| Producer | Matt Fox, Greg Thomas | ||||
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Misanthropy Pure is the third studio album by metalcore band Shai Hulud, released on May 26 in Europe (except in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Italy, where it will arrive on May 30) and May 27 in the U.S. [2]through Metal Blade Records, the band's first record release by that label. It has been described as the blender between between 1997's Hearts Once Nourished with Hope and Compassion and 2003's That Within Blood Ill-Tempered, as stated by Shai Hulud's guitarist, Matt Fox:
"The sound.. it's hard for me to answer it accurately, it would be better to ask somebody who is listening to it. If you ask me, when I listen to 'Hearts Once Nourished..' our first album, I think it's very rhythm based. It's very very melodic, but it's definitely more rhythm based. When you listen to 'That Within Blood Ill-Tempered,' it's clearly more melody based... so a lot of my friends said: 'If you guys could combine the drive, the rock, and the aggression of 'Hearts,' and the structuring, the melody and the intelligence of 'That Within Blood Ill Tempered,' you might have my favorite album of all time. So again, because I can never answer a question just directly, to answer your question directly, what we try to do is combine both albums. We wanted to make it smart, and heavy, we wanna make it sound great. We wanted to give something to people where they could groove along to it and rock for more than a second and a half without changing, but we also wanted to maintain some technical intelligent aspect, and the melodic nature of our last album. So if you take both those albums, throw them in a blender, I think you might have something that resembles 'Misanthrophy Pure.'"[3]
"It's faster, slower, more metal, less metal, more rock, more progressive, and less progressive than anything we've ever done. It's like that movie 'Deep Blue Sea'. 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".
[edit] Track listing
- Venomspreader - 1:45
- The Creation Ruin - 3:16
- Misanthropy Pure - 4:28
- We Who Finish Last - 3:08
- Chorus of the Dissimilar - 3:34
- In the Mind and Marrow - 4:47
- To Bear The Brunt of Many Blades - 3:35
- Four Earths - 5:10
- Set Your Body Ablaze - 3:20
- Be Winged - 2:15
- Cold Lord Quietus/They Congregate to Mourn/The Persecution of Every Next Breath/Go Forth to Life - 6:35
[edit] Credits
- Matt Mazzali - vocals
- Matt Fox - guitar, producer
- Matthew Fletcher - bass
- Andrew Gormley - drums
- Greg Thomas - Engineer, Co-producer
- Recorded in Silver Bullet Media, CT
- Mixed by Eric Rachel at Trax East
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