Matt Fox (musician)

Matt Fox
Background information
Birth name Matthew Ian Fox
Also known as Matt Fox, The World Devourer (on The Fall of Every Man)
Born April 28, 1973
Smithtown, New York, United States
Origin Pompano Beach, Florida, United States
Genres Hardcore punk, progressive metal, metalcore, crossover thrash, horror hardcore, ska punk
Occupation(s) Musician, songwriter
Instruments Guitar, bass, drums
Years active 1990–present
Labels Metal Blade, Revelation, Trustkill, Century Media, Crisis, Far Out, Undecided, At Dawn We Wage War (Ides of March), Stryder
Associated acts Shai Hulud, Zombie Apocalypse, Strongarm, New Found Glory, Merauder
Website www.hulud.com

Matt Fox (born Matthew Ian Fox April 28, 1973, Smithtown, New York) 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.[1][2]

Metalcore term

Matt is credited with popularising the "metalcore" term in the late 90s/early 2000s, identifying bands like Earth Crisis, Deadguy and Integrity as metalcore bands,[3] 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."[4]

At Dawn We Wage War

At Dawn We Wage War (former Ides of March) is a small record label started by Matt 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 Matt practices a drug and alcohol-free lifestyle, he is not part of the straight edge movement, as stated in many interviews.

Matt's favorite group is the thrash metal band Metallica.[5] He also has been influenced by many other hardcore punk, metallic hardcore, thrash metal, punk rock and progressive metal bands.

It seems that he suffers from coulrophobia.[6]

Bands

Discography

For a more comprehensive list, see Shai Hulud discography.
  1. "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
  1. "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

References

  1. ↑ Strongarm Biography "...Shai Hulud's guitar player Matt Fox around 1991 in a band called Planet X"
  2. ↑ Rockfreaks.net - Interviews with Shai Hulud 28.11.2007 "I played in a ska punk band called Bingo Mud" (sic)
  3. ↑ "Shai Hulud, interview with Punknews.org - 05/28/08". Retrieved 2008-09-21. As far as coining the term “metalcore” or coining a sound, I don’t think we did. There were bands before Shai Hulud started that my friends and I were referring to as “metalcore”. Bands like Burn, Deadguy, Earth Crisis, even Integrity. These bands that were heavier than the average hardcore bands. These bands that were more progressive than the average hardcore band. My friends and I would always refer to them as “metalcore” because it wasn’t purely hardcore and it wasn’t purely metal. It was like a heavier hardcore band with hardcore ethics and attitude but clearly a metal influence. So we would joke around and say “Hey, it’s metalcore. Cool!” But it was definitely a tongue-in-cheek term.
  4. ↑ Metalsucks.net - Interview with Shai Hulud guitarist Matt Fox "“Metalcore,” the actual genre in 2008 doesn’t usually seem like a hybrid of hardcore and metal as much as it just seems like metal, only written by people who imitate it rather than love it, typically resulting in trite and shallow music"
  5. ↑ TheHvScene.com - Interview with Matt Fox 3.13.04 "My biggest influence, hands down, was metallica. You can blame Metallica for me being 30 and brokethats why I still play music."
  6. ↑ ruleeverymoment.com - Interview with Matt Fox in 2003 "...When I was younger that Ringling Brothers clown scared the crap out of me."

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