Not To Bad At All

Ok ZAO is one of the most talented bands ever and pretty much the fathers of modern metalcore. Every album they put out is going to have something good and note worthy on it, but keep in mind no one's perfect. I do agree that this one is not ZAO's best CD and it marks the first time where they departed from their more basic sound to experiment a little bit and for what it is I think they did a great job. Dan is still at the top of his game on this album along with his amazing lyrics. There are some great guitar riffs and solos on songs like 5 Year Winter that leave you in awe, then the drumming is a lot faster and intense then previous albums. I would put this album after Blood and Fire, Liberate and Funeral of God for quality albums, but this is still an album ZAO fans can be proud of, I think their expreiment works here, it's not until their next album where they go a bit too far.

Ok, just Ok

While "5 Year Winter" and "Trashcanhands" are the highlights of the CD, songs like "The End of His World" make you say why. I didn't really like the move to electric drums even though Jesse is still a beast.

ZAO goes Techno!

1. 5 Year Winter 10/10

2. Alive Is Dead (Instrumental)So Cool! 10/10

3. Tool to Scream Nice 9/10

4. Witchhunter 9/10

5. Trashcanhands AWESOME SONG!!! 20/10

6. Race of Standing Still Cool song. 10/10

7. FJL (Instrumental) 8/10

8. End of His World Descent but not the best 8/10

9. Dreams That Don't Come True 8/10

10. At Zero (Simeon Simmons) 8/10