Shihad

From 1988 until 2025 Shihad provided a guitar-driven soundtrack for a car-surfing, black jeans-garbed generation, without a single change in band membership. Led by Jon Toogood, Shihad's raw, no-holds-barred rock produced hit albums The General Electric (1999), Pacifier (2002), Beautiful Machine (2008) and Old Gods (2021), iconic singles (e.g. 'Home Again') and a committed Australasian fanbase. Evolutions into post-grunge and electro-punk, and a brief name-change (Pacifier) did not betray their metal roots, typified in legendary live performances. The band's story to date was told in 2012 documentary Shihad - Beautiful Machine.