In 1995 Zao released their frst album All Else Failed on Steadfast Records, 21 years later, after a series of highly in?uential records on Solid State and their biggest commercial/critical successes (The Funeral Of God [2004] and 2006's The Fear Is What Keeps Us Here) on Ferret Records. Zao returns with their 11th full-length album The Well-Intentioned Virus. Having ceased extensive touring in 2007 the band reconvened in 2009 for the album Awake?. After a non-existent press push and unhappy with the availability of the album to fans, the band decided to rebuild it's operations and began planting the seeds of starting their own label Observed/Observer Recordings. Never a band to repeat a past success and always searching for new boundaries to push within their own music, The Well-Intentioned Virus finds Zao utilizing just as many familiar