''Where Blood and Fire Bring Rest'' is the third full-length album released by
metalcore band
Zao on
Solid State/
Tooth & Nail. It was the first album to feature vocalist
Dan Weyandt after the departure of Shawn Jonas along with new bassists/guitarists, Russ Cogdell and
Brett Detar
Brett Detar is an American singer, songwriter, film composer, and music producer. He is perhaps best known as frontman for the band The Juliana Theory and as former guitarist in Zao.
Detar launched a career as a singer/songwriter in the Americ ...
. The album contains a sample from the film ''
The Shining'' at the end of "Lies Of Serpents, A River of Tears", as well as a sample from the horror film ''
The Prophecy'' during the intro to "Ravage Ritual". It is often considered among the greatest metalcore albums ever made.
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Lyrical content
The lyrics on ''Blood & Fire'' deal with personal issues that vocalist
Dan Weyandt was dealing with at the time they were written.
The song "To Think Of You Is To Treasure An Absent Memory", deals with the suffering, and untimely deaths of Weyandt's friends and stepbrother.
"Lies of Serpents" and "Ravage Ritual" both deal with hypocrisy in the
Christian church.
Track listing
Personnel
;Zao
*
Dan Weyandt – vocals
*Russ Cogdell – guitar, bass
*
Jesse Smith – drums
*
Brett Detar
Brett Detar is an American singer, songwriter, film composer, and music producer. He is perhaps best known as frontman for the band The Juliana Theory and as former guitarist in Zao.
Detar launched a career as a singer/songwriter in the Americ ...
– guitar, bass, piano
;Production
*
Don Clark - Concept, Design, Layout Design
*Dave Rankin - Artwork
*
Brandon Ebel
Brandon Ebel is the founder, president and CEO of Tooth & Nail Records. He founded the label in 1993 in California, United States. The label has since grown to include sub-labels BEC Recordings, Solid State Records and Uprok Records. Ebel has ...
- Executive Producer
*
Bruce Fitzhugh
Bruce Fitzhugh is the second and best known lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist and founding member of Arkansas's Christian metal band Living Sacrifice. The lead vocalist role was left to Bruce shortly after the departure of former lead Darren Joh ...
- Producer
*Brian Gardner - Mastering
*Jason Magnusson - Assistant Producer
*Tim Owen - Photography
*
Barry Poynter - Engineer, Mixing
Album information
*Record label (vinyl version)
Broken Circles Records
References
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Zao (American band) albums
1998 albums
Tooth & Nail Records albums
Solid State Records albums