Metalcore outfit Zao will be looking at the past with their forthcoming rarities compilation.

The 14-track release includes material featuring founding vocalist Eric Reeder and Shawn Jonas, who appeared on the band’s first two albums: 1995’s All Else Failed and 1997’s The Splinter Shards the Birth of Separation. The compilation also includes a pair of songs from the Zao side project Monroe. The Treadwater 7” version of “Repressed” can be streamed below.

Pre-orders for the compilation, which will be released on October 9 can be made on Zao’s Bandcamp page. The 25th anniversary vinyl pressing of All Else Failed will also be released that day. Pre-orders for that can be found here.

Zao are putting the finishing touches on the follow up to 2016’s The Well-Intentioned Virus.

Preface: Early Recordings 1995​-​1996 tracklisting

1. Conflict

2. Rest

3. Sickness

4. Increased

5. Deep

6. Flight

7. Security

8. Exchange

9. Sorrow

10. Need

11. Captive

12. Deep

13. Nobin

14. Repressed