Static-X - Shadow Zone / X-Posed (Special Edition) (2003)

Shadow Zone is the third album by the band Static-X, released on October 7, 2003. Marked by many personnel and stylistic changes, the album sports a much more melodic sound than any other work in their catalog, while still staying in the confines of their industrial metal and nu metal sound.

While the album was still described commonly as industrial metal, nu metal, alternative metal, much like the rest of their work, Shadow Zone focused much more on melody than any other album in their catalog.

Static's vocal performance on Shadow Zone was commonly compared by journalists as similar to Jonathan Davis of Korn. Allmusic also felt that his vocals on the second single, "So" sounded similar to the vocals of Layne Staley of Alice in Chains.

Recording the album wrapped up in June 2003, Nick Oshiro, prior drummer of the band Seether, joined the band shortly after the recording process to tour in support of the album, as Freese was always meant to just be a temporary sessions drummer for the albums creation. The album's first single, "The Only", was released to radio in August 2003. Shadow Zone was released on October 7, 2003. A second single, "So", was later released in 2004.

The album debuted at no. 20 on the Billboard 200 charts, selling 48,418 copies in its first week, just over half the number of their prior album, Machine.

Wayne Static - lead vocals, guitar, keyboards, programming
Tripp Eisen - guitar
Tony Campos - bass, backing vocals

Session musicians
Josh Freese - drums
Ken Jay - additional keyboards

Track List (CD, 00:41:26):
[00:02:18] 01. Destroy All
[00:03:05] 02. Control It
[00:02:57] 03. New Pain
[00:03:05] 04. Shadow Zone
[00:02:47] 05. Dead World
[00:02:14] 06. Monster
[00:02:51] 07. The Only
[00:04:01] 08. Kill Your Idols
[00:04:01] 09. All In Wait
[00:02:39] 10. Otsegolectric
[00:03:40] 11. So
[00:01:38] 12. Transmission
[00:04:05] 13. Invincible
[00:02:00] 14. Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment

Track List (DVD - X-Posed, 00:33:34):
[00:04:08] 01. Enter The Shadow Zone
[00:02:37] 02. History Of Static-X
[00:02:37] 03. Push It
[00:01:47] 04. The Influence Of Kiss
[00:03:53] 05. Fan Q&A
[00:04:08] 06. What About Static-X Never Changes
[00:02:17] 07. Destroy All
[00:06:37] 08. Recording "Shadow Zone"
[00:01:31] 09. Picking Nick
[00:02:10] 10. Photoshoots
[00:01:43] 11. Shadow Zone