★★★★★
Lies of Serpents, a River of TearsTo Think of You Is to Treasure an Absent MemoryA Fall FarewellMarchEmberRavage RitualFifteen RhemaFor a Fair DesireThe Latter RainViolet By a show of hands, how many forgot that Brett Detar of Juliana Theory fame also did a stint playing guitar for Zao? Somewhat embarrassingly, my hand is raised...
- www.indievisionmusic.com
2010-12-21
★★★★★
"Maybe the scariest and coolest album ever made." That was the perfect slogan to help market the third installment in Zao's dark saga. By this time in 1999, Where Blood And Fire Bring Rest had revolutionized hardcore metal and Zao was ready to capitalize on their success with Liberate Te Ex Inferis, which means "Save Yourself From Hell."This album has been admired by many musicians in and out of the Christian music scene and still holds true to this day as a metal masterpiece...
- www.jesusfreakhideout.com
2010-12-20
★★★★★
Awake, Zao's 2009 release starts off with an intro track that calmly takes you into the beginning with nothing really significant standing out. "Entropica" carries out along the same lines initially, after getting across a little redundancy the band opens up a little bit into their song writing. The melodies really begin to stand out through the end of this track and moving into "The Eyes Behind The Throne...
- www.reviewrinserepeat.com
2010-12-14
★★★★★
Once again, the legendary ZAO has returned with their tenth studio album Awake? Three years have passed since the release of their 2006 breakthrough release, The Fear Is What Keeps Us Here, which marked the end of the band's two-album contract with Ferret Music. In 2008, the band re-signed to Ferret and much anticipation was expected for their next studio album, as well as the return of former guitarist Russ Cogdell...
- www.jesusfreakhideout.com
2010-12-14
★★★★★
Thought Zao was long gone? You were so wrong... Many metal bands have come and gone, never lasting even five years. Some of the more fortunate ones might actually make it a decade. Enter Zao, a band with fifteen years of some of the most brutal metal under their belts. They've survived the nu-metal craze and are still cranking out good music. With The Funeral of God being their tenth record, you might expect Zao to experiment with something different. Well, they did...
- www.jesusfreakhideout.com
2010-12-14
★★★★★
So begins the second era of Zao. They opened up 1998 with a new lineup, a new style, and a new message. Drummer Jesse Smith took over the band after original members Shawn Jonas, Mic Cox, and Roy Goudy stepped down the previous year. From that point onward, the message of the band became more about the band members being alive because of their faith in God...
- www.jesusfreakhideout.com
2010-12-14
★★★★★
Throughout the late 80's, the music industry witnessed the birth of a number of bands tapping into what has now become thrash metal. In the beginning, we were introduced to the first Christian thrash metal band called The Crucified. Afterwards, Vengeance Rising, Living Sacrifice, and others followed in their footsteps...
- www.jesusfreakhideout.com
2010-12-14
★★★★★
ZAO have been around a long time, since 1993 in fact, and in that time have had a multitude of line up changes to the extent that there are no original members left! That by no means implies that the members are new, with vocalist Daniel Weyandt and guitarist Scott Mellinger joining back in 1997. Metalcore has now been around for quite a few years and has long since been the new boy in town...
- hangout.altsounds.com
2010-11-02
★★★★★
Within the world of hard and heavy music, "metalcore" is big business right now - a sub-genre that has its heart in classic thrash and death metal but its head in the beatdowns and ideology of hardcore punk.Zao is one of, if not the seminal metalcore group, a band whose gargantuan guitar sound, ear-shredding vocals and intelligent lyricism has influenced everyone from New Wave Of American Heavy Metal exponents like Killswitch Engage to beyond-extreme noise terrorists like Norma Jean...
- www.musicomh.com
2010-08-23
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