Awake? [LIMITED EDITION]

Zao (Heavy Metal), Zao

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 5, 2009)
• Original Release Date: May 5, 2009
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Limited Edition
• Label: Ferret
• ASIN: B001W9SYSI
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #97,125 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

This record's signature all-out heaviness will sound immediately familiar to anyone who has followed the band's convoluted, controversial, and altogether exciting career. Thunderous, epic, and full of passion, Zao (Greek for "alive") is driven by vocals that exorcise singer Daniel Weyandt's demons as if his life depended on the songs. His words reshape a personal history wrought with tragedy, suicide, and death into beautiful musings that connected with their brutal honesty and naked self-observation. They've toured with Bleeding Through and Dillinger Escape Plan, and next hit the road with In Flames, Trivium, Demon Hunter, and Throwdown.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Zao is still the kings of metalcore, June 2, 2009

By	king beagley "metal maven" (warsaw, in usa) - See all my reviews

where do I start? this is the 3rd Zao album that I have purchased and I have yet to be disappointed. it is still extreme, although they added some clean singing to it. I only have one minor complaint and that is the booklet was not stapled together. this flaw didn't keep me from enjoying the music though. a good five star release.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars first impressions, June 19, 2009

By	alex (queens, NY) - See all my reviews

just got the disc today and listening to it for the fourth time as I write this. It's a solid Zao release, by no means their best and so far there has been nothing on the disc to jump out and specifically grab me, maybe that will change with time. I noticed to my horror that the clean singing on this album sounds exactly like Billie Joe from Green Day and I can't help but being distracted by this unpleasant similarity once I noticed it (hope it doesn't ruin it for anyone else)

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very Good, May 7, 2009

By	Milton Burrow - See all my reviews

After making their most intense and harsh album, Zao disappeared for a while. Awake? marks their return with a friendlier album that still remains haunting. The music is somewhere in between the ferocity of The Fear is What Keeps Us Here and the melody of The Funeral of God. There is an acoustic ending track which trounces the one on Parade of Chaos. If you like Zao, you will be delighted by this album. If you are expecting another Fear... you will be disappointed.