Things I Found On Flower Road EP

Things I Found On Flower Road is the debut EP independently released by Negative Zero. It was made as a tribute to Linkin Park back when they were known as Xero and had Mark Wakefield on vocals. After multiple teasers, delays, and random drops of motivation and members, the EP was finally released on July, 7 2021

Background
In May 2020, Raishi was working on Xero tracks and posting it on his YouTube channel such as (Xero: Reading My Eyes Instrumental). Then, Raishi created a song called "Faith" on his YouTube channel as a "Xero Instrumental Idea". The song was 48 seconds long with no vocals and was incomplete people liked the song that they left a comment to finish the song and in August 2020 the "Xero Part 2" project began and Faith was finished and uploaded to YouTube. After the song was made a singer called Aaron offered to be a vocalist for the song then Raishi released a video saying that they are looking for a rapper, a rapper named Tyler said he sounded like Mike Shinoda and Raishi then made him a rapper. Tyler only did rapping for "Faith" but he caused many problems with the project and when Gage (Young Hostyle) joined Tyler was no longer the rapper. Later on, Raishi found a vocalist called Danny (Elvishspirit) who sounded a lot like former Xero Singer "Mark Wakefield". The first song that Raishi listened to by Danny was an early version of Get Out that Danny wrote. Raishi liked the song and Get Out was later used on the EP. Danny was then in the project and they got to work. However, Danny mentioned that he was very busy and that he could not stay in the project for long as he had a job and his own band he was in. He was able to record vocals for the songs and write them. After that a DJ called "And One" said that he could do scratching and Raishi let him in the project. After that, they got to work with a lot of songs such as remaking Cuidado and rewriting some songs. Later on, a guitarist called Machine Man joined the band he played guitar on all songs but he only ended up on Deftest and Get Out.

In April 21, 2021 the first verse of Cuidado was released on YouTube and on June 26, 2021 the preview for Flower Road was released onYoutube.

The project had a release date for the EP on July 7, 2021 and the release for Flower Road on July 4, 2021 including the release of Cuidado on July 5, 2021.

The EP was very close to being delayed due to Raishi's internet not working on July 6, 2021 (a day before the EP released).

On July 7, 2021 Raishi was not active at all until he came back a few hours later with his internet fixed to post the EP on YouTube.

The EP was released on SoundCloud and Bandcamp on July, 10 2021.

A few days after the EP was released, guitarist Machine Man was fired from the band as he had trouble playing a lot of songs for the EP which is why his guitar is only on 2 songs (Get Out and Deftest).

About The Tracks

 * The song Flower Road was the most anticipated song from the project. It went through multiple reworks by Raishi, spanning out years in developing and workshopping, until Raishi, and the rest of the project was satisfied. It’s also the only song on the EP to feature J$tackins (formerly known as JQT), who is also a rapper, and is also a personal friend of Gage. J$tackins can be heard in the bridge of the song.


 * The song Faith was the second most anticipated song from the project and was one of the first songs to be created before Negative Xero started, it was made and released on Youtube by Raishi as a sort of test song. It remained more true to its original form, with only slight deviations from the original.


 * The song Get Out is a song written by Danny personally pre-Negative Zero in his free time. It was initially written by Danny out of boredom and uploaded to Youtube, but unbeknownst to him, it would eventually be seen by Raishi, and then used as an audition type of song to be the deciding factor if Danny could join the project, the answer was yes. Get Out was later slightly reworked a bit to be used as an actual song on the EP.


 * The song Deftest, which was originally conceptified as a troll song of sorts to trick hardcore Linkin Park fans into thinking it was the unreleased Xero demo known as Deftest. Deftist later became a proper song and is quite different from the previous songs on the EP, it seems to opt for a little more of a Post-Grunge sound, and it’s one of the only songs on the EP where Danny does most of the vocals.


 * The song Cuidado had the most changes done to it out of all of the other songs on the EP. It’s one of the only songs on the EP where Gage does most of the vocals and even some singing. The song opted for more of a sadder mood unlike the original version of Cuidado. Unlike Faith, It's one of the only songs on the EP that sounds almost nothing like the original version.

Unused Tracks
The song was supposed to be She Couldn't recreated as a Xero Demo but it never made it into the EP for an unknown reason and possibly to save time. This song never made it into the EP to save time. A instrumental was created but it was cut shortly after. This song was cut 1 month before the EPs release because it was incomplete and the band had to save time. An outro song was supposed to be on the EP but it wasn't worked on and it was cut last minute.
 * 1) Dot (She Couldn't Recreated as a Xero Demo)
 * 1) Hiroshima
 * 1) Social Media
 * 1) Outro

Track List

 * 1) Flower Road
 * 2) Get Out
 * 3) Faith
 * 4) Cuidado
 * 5) Deftest

Bonus Tracks:
 * 1) In The End

Negative Zero is:
 * 1) Raishi: Writer and Producer
 * 2) Elvishspirit: Writer, vocals and guitar on Get Out and Deftest.
 * 3) Young Hostyle: emcee, vocals and writer.
 * 4) And One: scratching
 * 5) Machine Man / MrS041: Rhythm Guitar (On Get Out and Deftest)
 * 6) Rethorea: Artist and music video animator for Flower Road and Cuidado.