Zao will be releasing their first full-length album since 2009 on December 9th via their own Observed/Observer Recordings. Here’s what the band had to say about The Well-Intentioned Virus record: “This is probably the first time the band has made a record where there was no ‘end-game.’ We just kept building up songs until we had a batch that we felt worked together as an album. Nobody was watching us or pushing a deadline. By the time we got to that point, we realized the hard part of funding and making the actual recording was already done. It just made sense to put it out ourselves. The whole thing could implode at any minute, but that seems to be the way the band does it’s best work, hanging on for dear life.”

The band has premiered four killer tracks over the past few weeks, and we have them all for you today! Enjoy ‘Observed/Observer’, ‘A Well-Intentioned Virus’, ‘Haunting Pools’ and ‘Xenophobe’ below, and pre-order The Well-Intentioned Virus today!