Death Knows Your Name

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Death Knows Your Name
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Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 19, 2006
RecordedFebruary 2005–February 2006
God City Studios. Salem, Massachusetts, USA
Genre Hardcore punk
Length35:18
Label Deathwish (DWI52)
Producer Kurt Ballou
The Hope Conspiracy chronology
Hang Your Cross
(2006)
Death Knows Your Name
(2006)
True Nihilist
(2009)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Interpunk(positive) [3]
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Death Knows Your Name is the third full-length album from hardcore punk band The Hope Conspiracy. It was released September 19, 2006 through Deathwish Inc. [1]

In January 2022, Deathwish will release a remastered reissue of Death Knows Your Name with updated artwork and the bonus track "Eurohell" from the band's out-of-print 2006 EP, Hang Your Cross . [5]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."They Know Not"3:35
2."Deadtown Nothing"2:16
3."A Darkness In The Light"2:01
4."Animal Farm"3:40
5."Curse Of The Oil Snakes"2:21
6."Hang Your Cross"2:28
7."Suicide Design"3:22
8."Leech Bloody Leech"1:34
9."So Many Pigs So Few Bullets"2:36
10."Sadistic Sacred Whore"5:59
11."Stolen Days"5:26

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