Genre: Rock
Original Release: 12/11/2003
1. Skin Like Winter (Split Ep Album Version)
2:21
2. Five Year Winter (Self Titled Album Version)
2:26
3. Fall Farewell, A (When Blood And Fire Bring Rest Album Version)
2:51
4. Suspend/Suspension (Parade Of Chaos Album Version)
5:50
5. Walk On By, Walk On Me (Split Ep Album Version)
2:56
6. Ravage Ritual (When Blood And Fire Bring Rest Album Version)
3:09
7. Times Of Separation (Splinter Shards The Birth Album Version)
4:56
8. Savannah (Liberate Album Version)
2:47
9. Race Of Standing Still, The (Self Titled Album Version)
5:06
10. Free The Three (Parade Of Chaos Album Version)
4:02
11. Angel Without Wings (Parade Of Chaos Album Version)
3:42
12. Ember (When Blood And Fire Bring Rest Album Version)
13. Ghost Psalm (Liberate Album Version)
5:40
14. Trashcanheads (Self Titled Album Version)
3:35
15. Icarus Complex, The (Legendary Album Version)
2:29
16. One Last Time (Legendary Album Version)
2:55
17. All Dressed Up (With No Place To Go) (Legendary Album Version)
Heavy Christian rock & roll is no longer anything really new. But Christian metalcore that sounds this dark and angry is pretty unusual. It should be said that the relationship between ZAO's music and the beliefs of its members has always been a bit ambiguous, and indeed there is little on this retrospective collection that would tip off the uninitiated listener as to the group's religious leanings. "Free the Three" seems, in fact, to be a defense of three adolescent Satan-worshippers unjustly accused of a murder; other songs, such as the sonically brutal "Skin Like Winter" (which slyly juxtaposes wall-of-guitar roar and screaming vocals with jaunty handclaps) and the complex, episodic "Ravage Ritual" (which evokes I Against I Read More
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