Misanthropy Pure

This article is about the album. For the song, see Misanthropy Pure (song).

Misanthropy Pure is the third studio album by hardcore punk band Shai Hulud, released on May 26, 2008 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, 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 and 2003's That Within Blood Ill-Tempered, by Shai Hulud's guitarist, Matt Fox:

Misanthropy Pure
Studio album by Shai Hulud
Released	May 26, 2008 (2008-05-26)
Recorded	2007-2008at Silver Bullet Studios in Burlington, Connecticut
Genre	Metalcore, hardcore punk
Length	41:53
Label	Metal Blade
Producer	Greg Thomas, Matt Fox
Shai Hulud chronology
A Comprehensive Retrospective: or How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Release Bad and Useless Recordings (2005) Misanthropy Pure (2008) Not Without a Heart Once Nourished by Sticks and Stones Within Blood Ill-Tempered Misanthropy Pure Gold Can Stay (2009)
Singles from Misanthropy Pure
"Misanthropy Pure" Released: May 22, 2008

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AbsolutePunk.net	(79%)
Lambgoat
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Global Domination
Wonka Vision

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'.

"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", first shown on MTV2's Headbangers Ball on May 22, 2008.

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Venomspreader"	1:45
2.	"The Creation Ruin"	3:16
3.	"Misanthropy Pure"	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"	6:35

Credits

• Matt Mazzali - vocals
• Matt Fox - guitar, producer
• Matthew Fletcher - bass guitar
• Andrew Gormley - drums
• Greg Thomas - engineer, producer
• Dave Quiggle - artwork
• Recorded at Silver Bullet Studios in Burlington, CT
• Mixed by Eric Rachel at Trax East

Release history

Country	Release date
Europe	May 26, 2008 (2008-05-26)
United States	May 27, 2008 (2008-05-27)
Worldwide	May 30, 2008 (2008-05-30)