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 loved 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.

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.

Track List

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

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)

Featured artists:
 * 1) J$TACKINS: Rapping on Flower Road