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Zao are not fucking around. After a 20+ year career, they hit harder than ever with this recording. A perfect set list, mastered to an intimidating perfection.
Favorite track: Ghost Psalm (Live From The Church).
Replicate Extinction
The first time I heard Zao was in 1999. I was a young teenager. hearing this now is surreal. To hear this level of quality from these giants is surely a blessing. and what a fantastic production. thank you for this amazing performance, ZAO. I'm especially impressed by how the band has continued to refine the old songs. the tightness and quality of craftsmanship from ZAO here is just fantastic. Quality release.
Blue Monday '89
Amazing performance; tight production, thick guitars, vicious drums and Dan sounding like a snarling hellbeast gargling razorblades - absolutely awesome. Would love to see more releases like this in the future...
Favorite track: How Are The Weak Free (Live From The Church).
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We are the Ship of Theseus
Singular and all
A sum drawn to the surface
By the fragments we recall
We are the Ship of Theseus
Composed of flesh and bone
An atypical anomaly
Unfolding on its own
A lost singularity sprawls out over time
Searching for the space where dimensions can combine
A lost singularity sprawls out over time
Searching for the place where everything will become nothing
Nothing
Nothing can ever stay the same
Disrupted function
Collapse the waveform
This is the Ship of Theseus
(We are) fragments of the frame
Composing a new identity
From the prototypal remains
Come out of your stare
Touch the ground with your prayers
Breathe out the lies
His words were sharpened hooks beneath your skin
You let them in as he shone into the eyes around him
Cradled by a cold floor
Isolation reveals his true motivation
Her petals are slowly torn away
Scarlet adorns the snow
Human cattle masses marching
Their eyes are blank and erratic
Susceptible to the droning hypnosis that rides through dissonant skies
Loud and arrogant choir like voices
Singing as they trample the earth
And the truths of the past
Violence meets their opposition
Human cattle masses marching forward
Scared and consuming
Wearing their master's brand
Questioning not where they are going
Human cattle masses marching forward
Forward
In a fevered dream
A code was shown to me by disembodied tongues clear and clean
You’ll see it, but not with your eyes
Obscured through our mortal disguise
The maze-like depths of the haunting pools
If one were to arrive below the line
Pulled by the tide
One can’t come out
This code the tongues have spoken
“It was broken when we found it
(We found it like that)”
You’ll see it, but not with your eyes
Obscured through our mortal disguise
The maze-like depths of the haunting pools
If one were to arrive below the line
Pulled by the tide
One can’t come out
Here but not here, torn from the axis
Torn from the axis, here but not here
We’re unable to awake
And we’ve forgot that we are sleeping
We’re unable to awake
And we’ve forgot that it’s a dream
A shell within a shell… within a shell…within a shell...
Within a shell… in a disguise
Pulled from a dream into another dream
Croatoan
I saw the end in the beginning
A vision of a wheel spinning unbound
(Ascend)
I saw the sky consuming itself
The air was vacant and absent of sound
(Ascend, Descend)
Unbroken consciousness amends
Abide in smoldering inverted pyres
Whisper to us from futures past
Reveal to us our own true form
(Ascend)
Within the mind’s darkness
There lies a doorway
A mirror that does not cast forth a reflection
(Descend)
Formed in a forge not made by man
It’s frame not cast by human hands
Those able to gaze beyond its surface
Trembling they’ll shatter and pass through
For we’re called to join the parade
The one in which we all must march
As our true fears are displayed
It calls from the void
It’s voice echoes from within the space where creation was destroyed
Anger casts shadows of doubt
Inviting them in has hollowed you out
The purest disgust one can ever feel
It lives in our voice it guides our eyes
It’s forcing us to realize
We’re born from the fear, the fear of death
Proven designs crush weakened minds
Exceptions to the rule and anomalies
Stir up violence with silver spoons
Cries of persecution from the persecutors tongue
The medium agitates the hive
Frothing hordes of true believers
You are right, yes you are right
You have been chosen to ruin countless heathen lives
Our path of sight through perception is soiled
As our sanity turns spoiled
Commands sent down by light and sound
Imaginary generals lie tired from the war
They will become what they abhor
A well-intentioned virus posing as a cure
Every kiss is a goodbye kiss
And every touch is momentary
Like trying to hold her ghost
Yet she disappears at sunrise
Sometimes the past is all we have
I see you in my mind so clearly
A salvation to these tired, cold and searching eyes
We fade, we fade away like dream
We come, we come apart at the seam
Every moment comes to an end
Just another fading memory
She let life destroy her
Move through me like a ghost
No one to break their blades
No one to cut their throats
All of your words will wash away
My broken heart stills mends
But you could care less anyway
They will hunt again
With years to plan and sharpen their teeth
To smile and walk free
But no one knows, no one knows
Free the wolf from his cage
Watch him hunt, stalk his prey
We let them go
They will hunt again
Prey on the simple
Feast in the temple
Free the wolf
Free the wolf from his cage
Watch him hunt, stalk his prey
We must put him down
We'll put him down again
Our protectors hide and grin
Realization comes through reaping
Reality contained in quiet
My companions are walking corpses
I am buried with their words
Buried with your words
Turned their backs on me
Scared to see the ghost
You turned and walked away
Scared to see the ghost
Time to go
One last look, one last touch
A ghost to those I love
Time to go
One last look, one last touch
Goodbye to those I love
Time to go
One last look, one last touch
So close
Torn From the axis
As we scatter the ashes
So close to separation
A ghost without a name
So close to separation
A ghost without a grave
So close
A ring of haze encircles the enshrouded truth within
Another veil is broken as the cosmos prepare to break forth in fulfillment
A blanket of deception
Lifted from sacred whispers which contain the thought of all that is one
A sword unsheathed is drawn
Bringing years of deception to its knees by the stars that died
Before the earth itself
Still so many choose to warm themselves beneath deception
As the end draws near and history closes
I see that the wind and the rain and all which is the latter
Will bring clarity and understanding to this trembling world
May the lack of knowledge that destroys us be lifted from our minds
Rain!
about
A live in the studio recording/film by Zao
credits
released April 19, 2024
ZAO:
Russ Cogdell
Jeff Gretz
Martin Lunn
Scott Mellinger
Daniel Weyandt
Recorded and Filmed at the Church Recording Studio (Pittsburgh, PA) on June 6 2021
Audio Recording and Mixing: Dave Hidek
Audio mastering: Garrett Haines at Treelady Mastering
Film Editor: Doug Helmick
Director of Photography: Phillip William Atkins
Color Grading: Allan Stallard
Camera Operators: Phillip William Atkins, Bailey Donovan, Kevin Galloway
Gaffer: Phillip William Atkins
Best Boy: Bailey Donovan
Key Grip: Kevin Galloway
Animations/Credit Sequence/Menus: Russ Cogdell
Cover art and Logo: Chris Smith
Additional menu art elements by Matt Kerley, Christopher Mckinney and Connor Anderson
Album Art layout by Jeff Gretz
Huge thanks to Dana Cannone at The Church, Iman Homsi at Veeps, Danny Trudell at Holy Mountain Printing, and Jarryd Meyer and the team at Resolution Rentals
Into The Jaws Of Dread Composed by Daniel Weyandt, Scott Mellinger,, Martin Lunn, Jeff Gretz, Russ Cogdell, Chris Dudley
Ship of Theseus, Croatoan & A Well-Intentioned Virus Composed by Daniel Weyandt, Scott Mellinger, Russ Cogdell, Martin Lunn, Jeff Gretz
Human Cattle Masses Marching Forward Composed by Daniel Weyandt, Scott Mellinger, Martin Lunn, Jeff Gretz
Transmission I: I Saw The End & Haunting Pools Composed by Daniel Weyandt, Scott Mellinger, Jeff Gretz
Romance Of The Southern Spirit Composed by Daniel Weyandt, Scott Mellinger, Russ Cogdell, Shawn Koschik, Stephen Peck
How Are The Weak Free Composed by Daniel Weyandt, Scott Mellinger, Jesse Smith
If These Scars Could Speak & Ghost Psalm Composed by Daniel Weyandt, Scott Mellinger, Russ Cogdell, Rob Horner, Jesse Smith
The Latter Rain Composed by Daniel Weyandt, Russ Cogdell, Brett Detar, Jesse Smith
All of the writers have their songs registered with BMI except Russ Cogdell And Chris Dudley who are with ASCAP. For some reason Brett Detar is with SESAC
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There isnt a single album on this earth more important to me than Drawing Black Lines. it was the first CD I ever bought with my own money. and probably my most listened to album of all time. Lyndon Harvey
