Sup everyone!? Sir-Up here to let everyone know that the ZED album is now available to purchase right here on our myspace for only 11.50 ! that's with shipping of course. This is 100 copy limited edition first run! so get it now while we still got them. We should have a link in the up and coming weeks to get the digital ,but if I were you snag a hard copy.The CD's are handcrafted and artwork all done by EPP's own members Fanatical and Benjamin Bear. So get em while they're hot. Also if you live in the Orlando area A Comic Shop is selling them for $10.00! starting today. So head down to A Comic Shop and get one.Also before I go I wanted to post one review of our album posted on Hipsterplease.com reviewed by Z.




Perhaps the most surprising of this year's crop of Halloween releases is this zombie-themed project from Orlando's Emergency Pizza Party. Though EPP made no secret that it had something big planned for 2008, they were fairly tight-lipped about the specifics, and Z.E.D. comes through as an interesting blend of disparate elements. Part concept album, part radio play, part b-movie, and part promotional tie-in for A Comic Shop's proactive zombie response program of the same name, it manages to inject some much need charm into the undead apocalypse. By blending good music with (intentionally) bad acting, Z.E.D. stalks the line between the frightening and the fun, the sublime and the silly, and along the way it boasts some of Emergency Pizza Party's best work to date.

While it opens with a pair of retreads ("Lost in the Woods" and "Necronomicon Ex Robotis" from RT's original Halloween EP), it quickly blossoms into "Safety Cabin," an early highpoint that features some great rhymes from Fanatical and guest rapper funk49 Dr. BassWave. Speaking of, this album marks the return of both Fanatical and Benjamin Bear to the EPP fold, which helps to take the sting out of the fact that Betty Rebel is missing from much of the action. MC Wreckshin and Sir-Up, who act as hero and villain respectively, are in abundance, and really help to power the story on, all the while redefining the zombie epic.

Touching on everything from zombie preparedness ("The Escape") to undead homophobia ("Phone Frantic Panic") to surprise guest stars ("Journey Ongoing!!!!"), Zombie Emergency Defense is a fun ride that succeeds more often than it flounders. Sure, the dialog and narration can get a little cheesy, but that's sort of the genius of it.

so grab it while it's hot… or cold… or whatever sort of clever corpse reference floats your proverbial boat.