The Truth is the fourth album by American metalcore band Bleeding Through, released on January 10, 2006. It was produced by Rob Caggiano, former lead guitarist of Anthrax. It was the last album to feature lead guitarist and founding member Scott Danough.
The album produced three singles ("Kill to Believe", "Love in Slow Motion" and "Line in the Sand"), all with accompanying music videos (with "Love in Slow Motion" being a sequel to the "Kill to Believe" video).
The band chose Rob Caggiano as the producer, due to them being impressed by his previous work and felt he could deliver a âÂÂbig heavy sound.â They also valued his outside perspective adding he could hear things they might be too close to notice after playing and rewriting songs many times. In August of 2005 Branden Schieppati promised the album would be far more "blunt and direct.âÂÂ
The artwork and was done by Asterik Studios.
The Truth entered the Billboard charts at number 48 (with 17,000 copies sold in its first week) making it the highest-charting release by the band to date. It has gone on to sell more than 250,000 copies since its release.
Although it received mostly mixed reviews, Billboard magazine called The Truth "one of the four most important hard rock albums of 2006".
Blabbermouth.net praised CaggianoâÂÂs production, stating âÂÂThe entire affair feels more focused than This Is Love, This Is Murderous also adding âÂÂDon't make the mistake of focusing on image and casting Bleeding Through into the metalcore and eyeliner scrap heap. Doing so might cause you to miss out on a crushingly heavy and eminently memorable album that gets better with repeat listens.â Aubin Paul of punk News wrote âÂÂWith The Truth, the band has really delivered a near-exceptional metalcore release.âÂÂ
A special edition of the album entitled The Complete Truth was released on July 15, 2008. The band penned a guest blog on the Headbanger's Blog and commented on the release: