Purification Through Violence
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{{Infobox album
| name = Purification through Violence
| type = studio
| artist = Dying Fetus
| cover = Purification Through Violence.jpg
| alt =
| released = August 6, 1996
| recorded = 1996
| studio =
| genre = *Brutal death metal
- grindcore{{cite web|url=https://www.seaoftranquility.org/reviews.php?op=showcontent&id=10423|title=Dying Fetus: Purification Through Violence (Relapse Reissue)|publisher=Sea of Tranquility}}
| length = 28:42
| label = Pulverizer
| producer = Dying Fetus
| prev_title = Infatuation with Malevolence
| prev_year = 1995
| next_title = Killing on Adrenaline
| next_year = 1998
}}
Purification through Violence is the debut studio album by American death metal band Dying Fetus, following Infatuation with Malevolence, a collection of early demos.{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/dying-fetus-mn0000135156/biography|title=Dying Fetus | Biography & History|website=AllMusic}} It was released in 1996.
The band left Pulverizer Records shortly after the album's release.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uIIf03bGyAAC&q=Purification+Through+Violence+dying+fetus+1996&pg=PA128|title=New Wave of American Heavy Metal|first=Garry|last=Sharpe-Young|date=August 25, 2005|publisher=Zonda Books Limited|isbn=9780958268400|via=Google Books}}
Release history
Purification Through Violence was reissued in January 2011 by Relapse.{{Cite web|url=https://www.metalsucks.net/2011/02/22/you-know-dying-fetus…-but-do-you-really-know-dying-fetus/|title=YOU KNOW DYING FETUS… BUT DO YOU REALLY KNOW DYING FETUS?|date=February 22, 2011|website=MetalSucks}} It included the bonus tracks "Beaten into Submission" (1997 rehearsal demo) and "Raped on the Altar" (live in Herbolzheim, Germany, 1998).
Track listing
{{tracklist
| all_lyrics = Jason Netherton
| all_music = John Gallagher except for track 8
| title1 = Blunt Force Trauma
| length1 = 5:26
| title2 = Beaten into Submission
| length2 = 2:50
| title3 = Skull Fucked
| length3 = 2:55
| title4 = Permanently Disfigured
| length4 = 3:25
| title5 = Raped on the Altar
| length5 = 3:55
| title6 = Nothing Left to Pray for
| length6 = 3:55
| title7 = Nocturnal Crucifixion
| length7 = 3:23
| title8 = Scum (Fuck the Weak)
| note8 = Napalm Death cover
| length8 = 2:53
}}
Personnel
- John Gallagher – guitars/vocals
- Jason Netherton – bass guitar/vocals
- Brian Latta – guitars
- Rob Belton – drums
References
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