Matt Fox (musician)


Matt Fox is an American musician, founding member and a current lead guitarist for the hardcore punk band Shai Hulud and his side project Zombie Apocalypse.
Fox writes the most of the Shai Hulud's musical and lyrical output. He has also played guitar in many other rock bands, like Planet X, The Murrychesstoes, The One Eyed Kings, Unwillful Demise, S.F.B and Bingo Mut.

Metalcore term

Fox is credited with popularising the "metalcore" term in the late 90s/early 2000s, identifying bands like Earth Crisis, Deadguy and Integrity as metalcore bands, even calling Shai Hulud a metalcore band back then- as a tongue-in-cheek term with his friends. However, in some interviews, he has stated that he no longer considers Shai Hulud a metalcore band, since the term "has lost its original meaning", i.e. hardcore bands with a "heavier" sound. Fox even called the genre "trite" and "shallow music," "made by people that imitate it rather than love it." Fox currently, as of 2015, calls Shai Hulud's sound "Shai Hulud Unincorperated".

At Dawn We Wage War

At Dawn We Wage War is a small record label started by Fox in 2001. The label was started to release Shai Hulud related projects, but it ended up releasing other hardcore bands' music as well. The label's releases are distributed via Revelation Records and will be releasing the Hulud related projects it originally intended on releasing.

Personal life

Although Fox practices a drug and alcohol-free lifestyle, he is not part of the straight edge movement, as stated in many interviews.
Fox's favorite group is the thrash metal band Metallica. He also has been influenced by many other hardcore punk, metallic hardcore, thrash metal, punk rock and progressive metal bands.
Fox has stated that he suffers from coulrophobia, a fear of clowns.

Bands

  2. "Nuclear Door"
  1. "Stop the Bus It's Russell Epstein" - 3:22
  2. "I Can Own the World" - 2:22
  3. "Amir Bacollie" - 2:13
  4. "I'm Done" - 2:27
  1. "For The World" - 3:02
  2. "This Wake I Myself Have Stirred" - 2:54
  3. "Hardly" - 3:28
  2. "Just Until Sundown" - 3:14
  1. "To Bear the Brunt of Many Blades" - 3:45
  2. "We Who Finish Last" - 3:15
  3. "If A Mountain be my Obstacle" 3:22