Zone Zero: The Lost Legacy

This is a bit of a strange release. The good people at Shadow Kingdom Records have seen fit to unleash this compilation on the unsuspecting world and suggest that this "collection captures the magic of a band heavily influenced by the New Wave of British Heavy Metal but somehow fell through the cracks of that burgeoning scene." Apparently Zone Zero weren't exactly prolific during their time together in Sweden in the early 1980s and I've no doubt that this redressed that situation especially now that the band is apparently back together. Sadly one can see why they didn't set the word alight back in the day as there's nothing here to set them apart from thousands of other bands around at the time. There is absolutely nothing wrong with any of the tracks here but there is equally nothing that stands up and shouts (see what I did there?) anything other than bog standard NWOBHM.

Track Listing
CD 1
1. Judgement Day 1981 [Live]
2. Demon from Kingdom of Death 1981 [Live]
3. Magic Woman 1981 [Live]
4. Only Survivor 1981 [Live]
5. Wannabe 1981 [Live]
6. Genocide Patrol 1981
7. Win or Die 1982
8. Evil Dream 1982
9. Demon from Kingdom of Death 1982

CD2
10. Innocent 1983
11. Zone Zero 1983
12. Riding on the Wind 1983
13. Revenge 1983
14. Breaker of the Chains 1983 [Rehearsals]
15. Searching for the Metal 1983 [Rehearsals]
16. Someone's Calling my Name 1983 [Rehearsals]
17. Tarakian 1983 [Rehearsals]
18. I Want the Metal Back 2004
19. Chasing Victory 2008
20. Miss You 2008
21. Twilight of the Gods 2008

Added: May 28th 2014
Reviewer: Simon Bray
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Related Link: Band @ Bandcamp
Hits: 1896
Language: english

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