Hidden World is the debut album by hardcore punk

Hardcore punk

Hardcore punk is an underground music genre that originated in the late 1970s, following the mainstream success of punk rock. Hardcore is generally faster, thicker, and heavier than earlier punk rock. The origin of the term "hardcore punk" is uncertain. The Vancouver-based band D.O.A...

 band Fucked Up

Fucked Up

Fucked Up is a hardcore punk band from Toronto, Canada. The band won the 2009 Polaris Music Prize for the album The Chemistry of Common Life.-History:The band formed and played their first shows in early 2001...

. It was released on double vinyl by Deranged Records

Deranged Records

Deranged Records is a Canadian punk record label based in Roberts Creek, British Columbia. It was founded in 1999 by Gordon Dufresne. Notable bands who have had releases with the label are Fucked Up, Career Suicide and Brutal Knights...

 and on CD by Jade Tree

Jade Tree

Jade tree may refer to:*the jade plant, Crassula ovata*the dwarf jade plant, Portulacaria afra*Jade Tree...

. It is the band's first long-play record. Hidden World was picked as #1 punk album of the year by Canadian magazine Exclaim!

Exclaim!

Exclaim! is a monthly Canadian music magazine that features in-depth coverage of new music across all genres with special focus on Canadian and cutting-edge artists...

 and was also nominated for the 2007 PLUG Independent Music Awards

PLUG Independent Music Awards

The PLUG Independent Music Awards, or just PLUG Awards, began in 2001 as a "cartel" of music lovers ranging from DJs and managers to indie retailers and fans.*This event is not in any way associated with the .-2008:...

 Punk Album of the Year.

Releases

October 9th 2006 - On Jade Tree

Jade Tree

Jade tree may refer to:*the jade plant, Crassula ovata*the dwarf jade plant, Portulacaria afra*Jade Tree...

, CD

October 2006 - On Deranged Records, vinyl (double LP)

February 2007 - On Welfare Records, 8 Track (Limited to 75 copies)

Track listing

1. "Crusades" - 6:43
2. "David Comes to Life" - 2:20
3. "Invisible Leader" - 4:30
4. "Carried Out to the Sea" - 3:11
5. "Baiting the Public" - 5:56
6. "Fate of Fates" - 6:06
7. "Two Snakes" - 7:17
8. "Hidden World" - 5:44
9. "Manqueller Man" - 4:16
10. "Blaze of Glory" - 5:10
11. "Triumph of Life" - 6:02
12. "Jacobs Ladder" - 5:50
13. "Vivian Girls" - 9:26

Art

The cover art shows a goddess rising above a river and the field of snakes. Another piece of art in the booklet shows these snakes emerging from a giant tentacle/Cornucopia

Cornucopia

The cornucopia or horn of plenty is a symbol of abundance and nourishment, commonly a large horn-shaped container overflowing with produce, flowers, nuts, other edibles, or wealth in some form...

. It also features many sigils.

The album's logo is Vesica piscis

Vesica piscis

The vesica piscis is a shape that is the intersection of two circles with the same radius, intersecting in such a way that the center of each circle lies on the circumference of the other. The name literally means the "bladder of a fish" in Latin...

, or Venn diagram

Venn diagram

Venn diagrams or set diagrams are diagrams that show all possible logical relations between a finite collection of sets . Venn diagrams were conceived around 1880 by John Venn...

of two sets, presumably the real world and the hidden world.

It was illustrated by Jason Gardener of Buckland, Massachusetts.