Zao Lyrics

There are at least three bands called ZAO:

1) The American Zao?s storied career was documented on the two-disc ?The Lesser Lights Of Heaven? DVD and the luminaries of today?s heavy music scene are well aware of their debt to the band. Underoath and Unearth opened for Zao. Thrice and Fall Out Boy listened to Zao while growing up. As I Lay Dying invited Dan Weyandt to guest on their last album and Matt Heafy from Trivium joined the band onstage to perform ?Praise The War Machine.?

Greensburg, Pennsylvania isn?t known for many things besides being in close proximity to the mall where George A. Romero filmed ?Dawn Of The Dead.? And the renegade spirit, commentary on the world around us, and personal introspection that drives the bespectacled filmmaker lives and breathes within Zao, a band whose backwoods roots have allowed them to stay one step ahead of the trends by staying true to their isolated selves.

Zao?s original incarnation formed in the mid-90s with the evangelical zeal of Focused, the fervor of Earth Crisis and the image of vintage rockabilly. When that version of the band fell apart shortly after the 1997 Cornerstone Festival, Zao as it would come   Read Full Biography of Zao