Zao discography

The following is the complete discography of Zao, an American metalcore band. The band's discography consists of eleven studio albums, two compilation albums, one video album, four music videos, and seven extended plays.

Zao discography
Members Russ Cogdell (left) and Dan Weyandt performing in Germany, 2004
Studio albums11
Compilation albums2
Video albums1
Music videos4
EPs7
B-sides7
Demos2

Albums

Studio albums

List of studio albums, with selected chart positions and certifications
Title Album details Peak chart positions
US Christian
[1]
US Heat
[2]
US Indie
[3]
US Hard Rock
[4]
US Rock
[5]
All Else Failed
  • Released: 1995
  • Label: Steadfast
  • Formats: CD, LP, DL
The Splinter Shards the Birth of Separation
Where Blood and Fire Bring Rest
  • Released: May 19, 1998
  • Label: Tooth & Nail/Solid State
  • Formats: CD, CS, LP, DL
Liberate Te Ex Inferis
  • Released: August 10, 1999
  • Label: Tooth & Nail/Solid State
  • Formats: CD, LP, DL
Self-Titled
  • Released: February 27, 2001
  • Label: Tooth & Nail/Solid State
  • Formats: CD, LP, DL
30
Parade of Chaos
  • Released: July 10, 2002
  • Label: Tooth & Nail/Solid State
  • Formats: CD, DL
2125
The Funeral of God
  • Released: July 12, 2004
  • Label: Ferret
  • Formats: CD, DL
2420
The Fear Is What Keeps Us Here
  • Released: June 12, 2006
  • Label: Ferret
  • Formats: CD, DL
1221
Awake?
  • Released: May 5, 2009
  • Label: Ferret
  • Formats: CD, DL
281945
The Well-Intentioned Virus
  • Released: December 9, 2016
  • Label: Observed/Observer Recordings
  • Formats: CD, CS, LP, DL
324732
The Crimson Corridor
  • Released: April 9, 2021
  • Label: Observed/Observer Recordings
  • Formats: CD, CS, LP, DL
16
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Re-recorded albums

List of studio albums, with selected chart positions and certifications
Title Album details Peak chart positions
US Christian
[6]
US Heat
[2]
US Indie
[7]
US Hard Rock
[8]
US Rock
[9]
All Else Failed
  • Released: February 19, 2003
  • Label: Tooth & Nail/Solid State
  • Formats: CD, DL
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Compilation albums

List of compilation albums
Title Album details
Legendary
  • Released: December 17, 2003
  • Label: Tooth & Nail/Solid State, EMI
  • Formats: CD, DL
The 2nd Era
  • Released: 2011
  • Label: Tooth & Nail/Solid State
  • Formats: CD, DL
Preface: Early Recordings 1995–1996
  • Released: October 9, 2020
  • Label: self-released
  • Formats: CD, DL

Extended plays

List of extended plays, with selected chart positions
Title EP details Peak chart positions
US Heat
[2]
The Tie That Binds
  • Released: 1995
  • Label: Steadfast
  • Formats: CD, LP
  • Notes: Split with Outcast
Treadwater
  • Released: 1996
  • Label: Steadfast
  • Formats: CD, LP
  • Notes: Split with Through and Through
Training for Utopia / Zao
  • Released: August 18, 1998
  • Label: Tooth & Nail/Solid State
  • Formats: CD
  • Notes: Split with Training for Utopia
Zao / Luti-Kriss Sampler
  • Released: 2001
  • Label: Tooth & Nail/Solid State
  • Formats: CS
  • Notes: Split with Luti-Kriss
On Wings of Lead / The Rising End
Xenephobe
  • Released: July 10, 2015
  • Label: Independent
  • Formats: CD, LP, DL
Pyrrhic Victory[10]
  • Released: November 3, 2017
  • Label: Observed/Observer Recordings
  • Formats: CD, LP, DL
11
Zao/Yashira
  • Released: September 21, 2018
  • Label: Mind Over Matter
  • Formats: LP, DL
Decoding Transmissions From the Möbius Strip
  • Released: February 8, 2019
  • Label: Observed/Observer Recordings
  • Formats: LP, DL
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Video albums

List of video albums
Title Album details
The Lesser Lights of Heaven
  • Released: November 15, 2005
  • Label: Ferret
  • Formats: DVD

Demo albums

List of demo albums
Title Album details
Author
  • Released: 1994
  • Label: Independent
  • Formats: CD, CS
Sustained
  • Released: 1995
  • Label: Independent
  • Formats: CD, CS

Remix albums

List of remix albums
Title Album details
Reformat/Reboot
  • Released: November 15, 2019
  • Label: Observed/Observer
  • Formats: CD, CS, LP, DL, NES

Songs

B-sides

Year Song Notes
N/A "Within a Dream"
2002 "Black Coffee" A cover of a Black Flag song on Black on Black: A Tribute to Black Flag and also on the Japanese release of The Fear Is What Keeps Us Here
"Sancho/Crimson Kroll"
2003 "21st Century Thriller" Recorded with Joshua Ashworth vocals for 2003 demo, later re-recorded with different lyrics for The Funeral of God as "The Rising End (The First Prophecy)"[11]
"She's Not Leaving, She's Not Breathing" Recorded with Joshua Ashworth vocals for 2003 demo, later re-recorded with different lyrics for The Funeral of God as "Praise the War Machine"[11]
2004 "The Romance of the Southern Spirit" On the Japanese release of The Funeral of God. Later re-recorded for Awake?.
2016 "Drifting Shadows in Walking Dreams" Released as a free flexi disc with Decibel.[12] Later appeared on Pyrrhic Victory.

Compilation appearances

Song Album
"Sancho" A Testament to Broken Walls
"Black Coffee" Black on Black: A Tribute to Black Flag
"The Rising End (The First Prophecy)" Music on the Brain Vol. 2
"Angel Without Wings" Point Break Vol. 1
"The Last Revelation (The Last Prophecy)" Progression Through Aggression Vol. 2
"Exchange" Songs from the Penalty Box
"A Fall Farewell" Songs from the Penalty Box Vol. 2
"To Think of You Is to Treasure an Absent Memory" This is Solid State Vol. 1
"Trashcanhands (Keyboard Coward)" This is Solid State Vol. 2
"The Icarus Complex" This is Solid State Vol. 3
"Resistance" This is Solid State Vol. 4
"Ravage Ritual" (disc 1) Tooth & Nail 10th Anniversary Box Set
"Savannah" (disc 2)
"5 Year Winter" (disc 4)
"Parade of Chaos" (disc 5)
"Repressed" (disc 4) Tooth & Nail 4th Anniversary Box Set
"The Rising End (The First Prophecy)" Van's Warped Tour '05
"Circle II The Lustful: If These Scars Could Speak" Cheapskates- Harder Side
"The Rising End (The First Prophecy)" New #### Vol. 10
Razor: Music from the Cutting Edge (Vol. 7)
Under the Gun DVD
"Physician Heal Thyself" The Best of Taste of Chaos Vol. 2

Music videos

Year Song Album
2004 "The Rising End (The First Prophecy)" The Funeral of God
2006 "My Love, My Love (We've Come Back from the Dead)" The Fear Is What Keeps Us Here
2017 "Xenophobe" The Well-Intentioned Virus
"Broken Pact Blues"
2019 "Transmission 1: I Saw the End" Decoding Transmissions From the Möbius Strip

References

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