Shai Hulud - Misanthropy Pure (2008)

Band: Shai Hulud
Album: Misanthropy Pure
Genre: Alternative Metal/Heavy Metal/Metalcore
Country: Pompano Beach, Florida, United States
Label: Metal Blade
Year: 2008

"Tracklist"

01. "Venomspreader"
02. "The Creation Ruin"
03. "Misanthropy Pure"
04. "We Who Finish Last"
05. "Chorus of the Dissimilar"
06. "In the Mind and Marrow"
07. "To Bear the Brunt of Many Blades"
08. "Four Earths"
09. "Set Your Body Ablaze"
10. "Be Winged"
11. "Cold Lord Quietus: They Congregate to Mourn/The Persecution of Every Ne"

Misanthropy Pure ♪♫

Shai Hulud - A Profound Hatred of Man (2006)

Band: Shai Hulud
Album: A Profund Hatred of Man
Genre: Alternative Metal/Hardcore/Metalcore
Country: Pompano Beach, Florida, United States
Label: Revelation Records
Year: 2006

"Tracklist"

01. "Hardly"
02. "If Born from This Soil"
03. "For the World"
04. "The Bonds of Those Who Have No Understanding of Consequence"
05. "Love Is the Fall of Every Man"
06. "When One Bests Defeat"
07. "Fearless Vampire Killers"
08. "Set Your Body Ablaze"
09. "Anesthesia"
10. "Linoleum"
11. "Damage, Inc."
12. "Lost Cause"
13. "Faithless Is He Who Says Farewell When the Road Darkens"

A Profund Hatred of Man ♪♫

Shai Hulud - A Comprehensive Retrospective (2005)

Band: Shai Hulud
Album: A Comprehensive Retrospective
Genre: Alternative Metal/Hardcore/Metalcore
Country: Pompano Beach, Florida, United States
Label: Revelation Records
Year: 2005

"Tracklist"

01. "Hardly [Shai Hulud Demo]"
02. "Orwell [Shai Hulud Demo]"
03. "Unlearned [Shai Hulud Demo]"
04. "Sauve Qui Peut [Shai Hulud Demo]"
05. "This Wake I Myself Have Stirred [Shai Hulud Demo]"
06. "Favor [Shai Hulud Demo]"
07. "Solely Concentrating on the Negative Aspects of Life [Live]"
08. "Gyroscope [Live]"
09. "Hardly [Live]"
10. "Stop Now!"
11. "Keep Your Day Jobs"
12. "New Song (Sauve Qui Peut)"
13. "Tree (Hardly)"
14. "This Wake I Myself Have Stirred"
15. "Unlearned"
16. "This Wake I Myself Have Stirred"
17. "For the World [Cad's First Demo]"
18. "This Wake I Myself Have Stirred [Cad's First Demo]"
19. "Hardly [Cad's First Demo]"
20. "Unlearned [Solo Rhythm Tracks]"
21. "Acre Wood [Solo Rhythm Tracks]"
22. "Tree (Hardly) [Solo Rhythm Tracks]"
23. "This Wake I Myself Have Stirred [Solo Rhythm Tracks]"
24. "Sauve Qui Peut (For the World) [Solo Rhythm Tracks]"

A Comprehensive Retrospective ♪♫

Shai Hulud - That Within Blood Ill Tempered (2003)

In strictly musical terms, this album is pretty impressive. Shai Hulud may not have invented the juxtaposition of tuneless, roaring vocals with intricate and sophisticated chord progressions, call it "Hard Emo Mathcore," or maybe "Metal Screamo," but on That Within Blood Ill Tempered it pretty much sets the gold standard for this particular brand of aggro rock. Despite the lack of anything approaching a vocal melody, songs like "Scornful of the Motives and Virtue of Others" and "This Song: For the True and Passionate Lovers of Music" generate enough interest with their alternately cascading and crunching guitar parts and their college, calculus rhythmic shifts that they end up holding your attention despite the sameness of the vocals. However, as you have surely gathered by now, the band's lyrical pretensions are a serious problem. The album title, the syntax of which is so affected and twisted as to render it meaningless, is fair warning: The guys in Shai Hulud appear to be suffering from a terminal case of Freshman Creative Writing Seminar, and they can't seem to tell the difference between pretentious syntax and actual intellectual content. The result is a lyrical disaster: The songs are all crawling (or perhaps "rife"? "fraught"?) with cringe inducing and often downright nonsensical pronouncements like "And man will continue to suffer unto itself Until some stand to rally the fray by firm example" or "Could any being bask in malevolence? As if its indifference might pardon it." They seem to be sincere (or so they claim, explicitly, in both the booklet design and the opening lines of the first song), but sincerity isn't enough: They need to be sincere about something in particular, and they need to be coherent in their expression of whatever it is they're sincere about. That won't happen until at least one of them figures out how to use a predicate.

Band: Shai Hulud
Album: That Within Blood Ill Tempered
Genre: Alternative Metal/Hardcore/Metalcore
Country: Pompano Beach, California, United States
Label: Revelation Records
Year: 2003

"Tracklist"

01. "Scornful of the Motives and Virtue of Others"
02. "Let Us at Last Praise the Colonizers of Dreams"
03. "The Consummate Dragon"
04. "Willing Oneself to Forget What Cannot Otherwise Be Forgiven"
05. "Two and Twenty Misfortunes"
06. "Being Exemplary"
07. "Given Flight by Demon's Wings"
08. "Whether to Cry or Destroy"
09. "This Song: For the True and Passionate Lovers of Music"
10. "Ending the Perpetual Tragedy

That Within Blood Ill Tempered ♪♫

Shai Hulud & Another Victim - Together on One Convenient Format (2000)

Band: Shai Hulud/Another Victim
Album: Together on One Convenient Format
Genre: Hardcore/Alternative Metal
Country: Pompano Beach, Florida, United States
Label: Trust Kill Records
Year: 2000


"Tracklist"


01. "Set Your Body Ablaze"
02. "Anesthesia"
03. "Linoleum"
04. "Bitter End"
05. "Boiling Point"
06. "Free in Constraint"

Together on One Convenient Format ♪♫

Shai Hulud

A positively themed metalcore band with some straight edge and Christian leanings, the influential Shai Hulud has maintained a strong band identity since their original formation in the mid of 90's, even though their apparent inability to stick with one lineup, label, hometown, or even band name has left them with a convoluted history.
Shai Hulud formed in Pompano Beach, Florida, taking their name from the giant desert worms central to Frank Herbert's Dune mythology. The original lineup consisted of guitarists Matt Fox and Oliver Chapoy, bassist Dave Silber, and drummer Steve Kleisath, who split his time between Shai Hulud and Strongarm. Original singer Damian Moyal left the band during sessions for their first EP, 1997 A Profound Hatred of Man, replaced by Chad Gilbert in time for the band full-length debut, Hearts Once Nourished with Hope and Compassion.
Over the course of several split EP's, 1998 The Fall of Every Man with Indecision, 2000 A Whole New Level of Sickness (Together on One Convenient Format) with Another Victim, and Crush 'Em All, Vol. 1 with Boysetsfire, the band lineup continued its mutations, with new member Matt Fletcher first replacing Chapoy on guitar before shifting to bass, Gilbert leaving to play guitar in New Found Glory, and Kleisath leaving to form Further Seems Forever with Dashboard Confessional Chris Carrabba.
By the time the band recorded their second full-length album, 2003 That Within Blood Ill Tempered, the lineup had moved from Florida to Poughkeepsie, NY, and settled down to a relatively stable quartet: new recruit Geert van der Velde on vocals, Fox, Fletcher, and drummer Tony Tintari. After van der Welde departed the band in 2004, Fletcher and Fox announced that Shai Hulud was disbanding following a brief farewell tour (with Gilbert temporarily returning on vocals) and the pair was forming a new band, the Warmth of Red Blood.
Following the 2005 release of the wryly titled odds and sods compilation A Comprehensive Retrospective: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Release Bad and Useless Recordings, Fletcher and Fox reversed course, and in the spring of 2006 announced that Shai Hulud was re-forming with a new lineup featuring singer Eric Dellon (who is also in Fletcher and Fox's tongue-in cheek thrash side project Zombie Apocalypse), second guitarist Ryan Burns, and drummer Brian Go. The re-formed Shai Hulud signed with Metal Blade Records and began work on a new album in the summer of 2006, while former label Revelation Records released a compilation called A Profound Hatred of Man that gathered the EP of that title along with all of the non LP and split EP tracks the band recorded between 1997 and 2001.

Band: Shai Hulud

Album: Hearts Once Nourished with Hope & Compassion

Genre: Metalcore/Alternative Metal/Post-Hardcore

Country: Pompano Beach, Florida, United States

Label: Crisis Records

Year: 1997

"Tracklist"

01. "Solely Concentrating on the Negative Aspects of Life"
02. "My Heart Bleeds the Darkest Blood"
03. "Outside the Boundaries of a Friend"
04. "Beliefs and Obsessions"
05. "A Profound Hatred of Man"
06. "Beyond Man"
07. "This Wake I Myself Have Stirred"
08. "Eating Bullets of Acceptance"
09. "For the World/If Born From This Soil: Treatments for the Infected ..."

Hearts Once Nourished with Hope & Compassion ♪♫