Learning brutality and catchiness from Entombed, Blindside and Selfmindead have given the American crazy-core that Coalesce helped invent a much-needed focus.
Zao gives you sadness the way it exists in physical form: unrelenting, claustrophobic, overwhelming, unforgiving, and obese. Evilcore at its most brilliant.
Plenty of gang shouts and breakdown parts to warm your high school bully’s heart, but there’s also enough “sad, in an ‘Orion’ by Metallica way” in the riffs.
Got the energy, spastic tendencies, torturous sludge grinds, eye-popping screams, evil guitars, and all-around noisy shit to fit right in with the family.