Hearts Once Nourished with Hope and Compassion

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Hearts Once Nourished with Hope and Compassion
Hearts Once Nourished with Hope and Compassion cover
Studio album by Shai Hulud
Released November 4, 1997 (original)
August 6, 2006 (reissue)
Recorded August–September 1997 at Morrisound Recording, Tampa, Florida
Genre Metalcore
Length 34:49
Label Crisis, Revelation
Producer Shai Hulud
Professional reviews
Shai Hulud chronology
A Profound Hatred of Man
(1997)
Hearts Once Nourished with Hope and Compassion
(1997)
The Fall of Every Man
(1998)
Alternate Cover
2006 Reissue cover.
2006 Reissue cover.
Special Edition LP (Picture Disc)
Picture Disc
Picture Disc
Singles from Hearts Once Nourished with Hope and Compassion
  1. "My Heart Bleeds the Darkest Blood"
    Released: 1997

Hearts Once Nourished with Hope and Compassion is the debut full length album by metalcore band Shai Hulud, released November 4, 1997 on the Revelation Records' subsidiary, Crisis Records, in CD/LP and 12" clear brown (106 press). It is now sold through Revelation Records. It was reissued in a remastered/remixed enhanced[1] form with new artwork on August 29, 2006. The enhanced features are the original releases' mp3s, before the remastering process. It is considered as one of most influential records on the actual hardcore/metalcore scene.[2][3][4]

In the song My Heart Bleeds the Darkest Blood the sample played before the songs began (on Solely Concentrating on the Negative Aspects of Life) is Bill Murray saying "It's gonna be cold. It's gonna be gray. And it's gonna last you for the rest of your life." in Groundhog Day. (1993). A music video was made for that song in 1997. [1]

The lyrics in the song "Outside the Boundaries of a Friend" are inspired in a failed relationship of guitarist Matt Fox. [5]

An early version of "Beyond Man" called "Favor" can be found in A Comprehensive Retrospective: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Release Bad and Useless Recordings from the 1995 demo.

The lyrics in the song "Eating Bullets of Acceptance" talk about how vegans idealise and thought they are better than anyone else. Interestingly the song was written by a vegan (Dave Silver)

The original name of the song "For the World" was "Sauve Qui Peut" (Save Which Can), the early version can be found in A Comprehensive Retrospective: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Release Bad and Useless Recordings and the Plea For Peace/Take Action compilation. The song was written by Damien Moyal.

The techno/industrial version of If Born From This Soil titled "If Born From This Soil: Treatments for the Infected Foetus" was arranged by Jonathan Wright and his project, Minor Procedure.

The sample that closes the record is "This is Lieutenant Ripley, last survivor of the Nostromo, signing off." Sigourney Weaver in Alien (1979)

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Solely Concentrating on the Negative Aspects of Life" – 3:08
  2. "My Heart Bleeds the Darkest Blood" – 2:05
  3. "Outside the Boundaries of a Friend" – 3:32
  4. "Beliefs and Obsessions" – 2:45
  5. "A Profound Hatred of Man" – 3:05
  6. "Beyond Man" – 2:54
  7. "This Wake I Myself Have Stirred" – 2:47
  8. "Eating Bullets of Acceptance" – 2:35
  9. "For the World / If Born From This Soil: Treatments For The Infected Foetus" (starts – 5:58 into the track) – 11:56

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