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| | Awake? | | | Music Artist : | | Zao | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Ferret | | Release Date : | | 2009-05-05 | | Store Price : | | $14.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $14.98 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. 1,000,000 Outstretched Arms Of Nothing
2. Entropica
3. The Eyes Behind The Throne
4. Human Cattle Masses Marching Forward
5. Romance Of The Southern Spirit
6. What Will You Find?
7. Awake?
8. Quiet Passenger Pt. 1
9. Reveal
10. Quiet Passenger Pt. 2/The World Caved In
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Zao continues to melt my face
Submitted on: 2009-11-17 |
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| Yes ladies and gentlemen, Zao is back with more face-melting, heart pumping, intense metal that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the album is over. I've listened to Zao ever since Where Blood and Fire Bring Rest, and they have many songs that parallel all of the things they, and myself have been going through. Don't just write these guys off as "just another metal band" because they're not. This new album by Zao is all heartfelt with songs that have MEANING, they aren't just songs to be heard, but rather listened to. Zao is still one of my favorite bands to this day and I hope to hear more from them in the future, especially if Russ Cogdell is going to continue to play with them |
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 Pre-2000 Anyone?
Submitted on: 2009-10-16 |
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Decent album, but I must admit I miss the pre-2000 Zao. To me it seems they changed their direction too much with the release of their Self-Titled album.
I've been following Zao since the Splinter Shards days, and even started a music venue with the hopes of having Zao, one day, come and play a show (we ended up having them play three times actually). To me, the best albums were Liberate Te Ex Inferis and Where Blood and Fire Bring Rest. Those two albums alone completely changed the way we know hardcore music. But since then, I feel the band has changed direction too much. Is it because of their constant line-up changes? Or maybe it's because Daniel is getting burned out?
I still enjoy every Zao album, and with each upcoming release I get excited in anticipation for them. But, maybe I'm hoping for something that will never return.
But I digress, this is indeed a good album, and it's great to hear Zao is back at it again. However, I would say, fans of Parade of Chaos will enjoy this album, but fans of Liberate and Blood and Fire might not. I would suggest listening to the full album [...] before buying it. |
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 ZAO is AWAKE on this album. Get It!
Submitted on: 2009-07-24 |
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| ZAO is stilling droppin great albums after so many years. You wont be disjointed with this one. It has a different tone than their past, but still heavymetalmadness filled with thermalnuclearhardcoredestruction |
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AWAKE? Alive! and Well!
Submitted on: 2009-07-24 |
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Zao has been pioneering metal and (just as importantly) doing their own thing in one incarnation or another for 14 or so years. Awake? is the most recent album from an older Zao, the first one released without a tour to back it up. To me, that's a pretty bold move by the band and the label(Ferret Records) since it relies on Zao's pre-existing fan base. Enough about all that.
I have and enjoy something about all of Zao's albums, and AWAKE? is no different! I love the higher sound quality(though "The Fear"s raw style was awesome too) and, in all honesty, Scott's clean vocals aren't really that new to Zao songs (A Parade of Chaos and The Funeral of God feature him plenty) and they just sound great here.
Although the album doesn't stick to me as well as some of the others, it is its own creature and is a fantastic one at that. The fact that this album exists is a testament of Zao's dedication to music, and the fans. This fan is not disappointed! |
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It's alright
Submitted on: 2009-07-07 |
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I am fairly big Zao fan and own most of their albums. I would place this one at the same level as The Funeral of God. It has a similar overall sound, so if you liked that album, you will probably like this one as well. The music is fairly good, and the clean vocals are basically like Funeral of God, but I did not really find any of the songs particularly memorable, in a good or bad way.
For whatever reason, the physical release of this album is a limited edition. The linear notes are on separate pieces of thicker paper (not stapled together or folded), with the idea that you can pick your own cover. There are six pages/covers.
Personally, I am still waiting for a return to "Where Blood and Fire Bring Rest," and this album is nowhere near there, but it is not terrible, either. |
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