Pyrrhic Victory is the third release on Zao’s Observed/Observer Recordings label (and the band’s 12th overall). Coming less than year after their critically acclaimed 2016 release The Well-Intentioned Virus and recorded at the same sessions, Pyrrhic Victory finds the band in a slightly more “direct/to the point” mode. Conceived as an...

Original artwork for the Zao EP "Xenophobe / Fear Itself" by Matt Kerley, presented as a museum quality giclee print in three sizes.Stock: Fine Line, Coarse Watercolor, 315 GSMPoster tube included with each order.

The long out of print original 1996 recording of Zao's debut full length. Remastered for 2018, and sounding more brutal than ever. Available for the very first time on both vinyl and cassette. Track Listing: 01. Resistance02. In Loving Kindness03. Endure04. Growing In Grace05. Foresight06. PS 7707. Exchange08. In These...

Freshly repressed after being out of print for more than 5 years, here we have the legendary hardcore juggernauts Zao teaming up for a split 7" release with touring pals (and Good Fight Music alum) Yashira.This split is a perfect example of how a release like this can exemplify the best of both bands...

…Although they never truly went away. Since 2016’s critically acclaimed “The Well-Intentioned Virus” (really, just ask the critics, they LOVED it, even NPR jumped on board – who would have thought?) the band has been releasing EPs, remix albums, Nintendo cartridges with actual music on them, concept 7 inches packaged in...

Originally released in 2019 on a variety of super limited edition formats (Picture Disc, Cd's packaged in repurposed Floppy Discs, A Nintendo Cartridge) This 2023 repress of Reformat/Reboot on standard 140g black vinyl and digipack CD sees Zao's album "The Well-Intentioned Virus" deconstructed and re-imagined by Joseph Milligan (Anberlin), Steve Moore (Zombi),...

Original artwork for the Zao album "Crimson Corridor" by Christopher McKenney, presented as a museum quality giclee print in three sizes.Stock: Fine Line, Coarse Watercolor, 315 GSMPoster tube included with each order.

Original artwork for the Zao EP "Pyrrhic Victory" by Matt Kerley, presented as a museum quality giclee print in three sizes.Stock: Fine Line, Coarse Watercolor, 315 GSMPoster tube included with each order.

Original artwork for the Zao album "The Splinter Shards The Birth Of Separation" by David Rankin, presented as a museum quality giclee print in three sizes.Stock: Fine Line, Coarse Watercolor, 315 GSMPoster tube included with each order.

In 1995 ZAO released their first album All Else Failed on Steadfast Records, 21 years later, after a series of highly influential records on Solid State and their biggest commercial/critical successes (The Funeral Of God and 2006’s The Fear Is What Keeps Us Here) on Ferret Records. Zao returned with their...

In June of 2021, Zao entered The Church recording studio in Pittsburgh, PA where they had recorded The Crimson Corridor and filmed a live-in-studio performance for a special pay per view event. The result was Live From The Church, a career spanning 12-song set of Crimson Corridor songs mixed with rare and some...

Original artwork for Zao "Parade Of Chaos", presented as a museum quality giclee print in three sizes.Stock: Fine Line, Coarse Watercolor, 315 GSMPoster tube included with each order.