We started The Murder Book in mid 2003.  We were five friends wanting to play a fashionable style, emulating that of Swedish metal bands and emo-core, fitting us into the new hardcore genre.  Fuck That.

We wanted to create the furious, ugly, dark, heavy, pissed off hardcore that is equal in humor and in hatred.  Drawing influences from bands such as:  Reversal of Man, Cursed, Chokehold, etc…