Zao has announced their next full length. The record is titled Awake? and is due out May 5, 2009. It is the follow-up to The Fear Is What Keeps Us Here which was released in 2006.

The album was produced at at Lambesis Studios by Zao guitarist Scott Mellinger (with As I Lay Dying vocalist Tim Lambesis and Daniel Castleman). The record will be a digital release, accompanied by a limited and numbered physical pressing.

The band has posted the track, "What Will You Find?" and you can check it out on their myspace page.