DIMENSION ZERO는 인플레임스의 두 기타리스트였던 예스퍼 스트롬블라드와 글렌 융스트롬의 프로젝트로서 1996년 중반에 탄생했다.
이들은 인플레임스와 같이 격렬하면서도 더욱 브루탈하고 속도감 있는 음악을 만들고자 했다. 우선, 이 프로젝트의 이름은 AGENT ORANGE였으나 동명의 밴드가 활동중인 관계로 DIMENSION ZERO라는 이름으로 개명하였다.
당시 라인업은 HANS NILSSON (드럼, 전 LUCIFERION , CRYSTAL AGE, 현 DIABOLIQUE), JOCKE GOTHBERG (보컬, 전 MARDUK), FREDRIK JOHANSSON (기타), GLENN LJUNGSTROM (기타, 전 IN FLAMES) 그리고 JESPER STROMBLAD (기타 및 베이스, 현 IN FLAMES)이었으며 이 라인업으로 97년 EP "PENETRATIONS OF THE LOST WORLD"를 공개했다.
한가지 짚고 넘어갈 부분은 프레드릭은 DARK TRANQUILLITY의 프레드릭과는 다른 인물이라는 점이다. 그는 스웨덴 스톡홀름의 음악학교에서 공부하던 재능 있는 뮤지션으로 당시 현 IN FLAMES 의 PETER IWERS와 함께 CHAMELEON이라는 밴드에서 활동하고 있었다.
이 데뷔 EP 앨범은 특히 일본에서 큰 성공을 거두었으나 각종 문제들로 인해 이 프로젝트는 끝이 나는 것처럼 보였다. EP발매 후 일 년이 지나 밴드는 세풀투라 트리뷰트 앨범을 위해 TROOPS OF DOOM을 녹음하였는데 여기에는 IN FLAMES 의 드러머 다니엘 스벤손이 보컬로 가담하였다. (그는 당시 SACRILIEGE에서 활동하고 있었다.)
이들은 또 MERCYFUL FATE의 트리뷰트 앨범에 MY DEMON을 커버하기도 했다. 또 다시 1년이 지나고 DIMENSION ZERO는 끝이 나는 듯했다. 그러나 98년 WAR DANCE COMPILATION 앨범에 "THEY ARE WAITING TO TAKE US"를 수록하였는데 이 때 다시금 보컬리스트 JOCKE 가 가담하였다. 그 후 밴드는 영구히 해산을 선언하였다. 이러한 결정을 내리게 된 데는 많은 이유가 있었고 이것은 슬프지만 사실이었다.
더 이상의 DIMENSION ZERO는 존재하지 않았다. 그러나 새 천년의 시작과 함께 이들은 다시 한번 팀으로서 작업을 시작하였다. 라인업에 다소 변동을 경험한 그들이었지만 이번 멤버들은 원년의 멤버들 그대로였다. 예스퍼가 기타와 베이스를 잡고 글렌이 기타를 연주한다. JOCKE가 보컬의 자리에, 드럼에는 HANS NILSSON이 돌아왔다. .... ....
Their eyes are opened slowly they are starting to breathe the sky is growling in wrath thunder and lightning is released aware of eachothers powers a feeling of battle appears facing heaven in anger a carnage is soon to await Through the virgin sky raping the surface penetrating earth powers from the lost world
Total fucking chaos the ancient meets today erased is the hope sudden death to come
Through the virgin sky raping the surface penetrating earth powers from the lost world
Visions from the past
marching into war unleashed upon the earth killing all that breathes
Through the virgin sky raping the surface penetrating earth powers from the lost world
Their eyes are opened slowly they are starting to breathe the sky is growling in wrath thunder and lightning is released aware of eachothers powers a feeling of battle appears facing heaven in anger a carnage is soon to await
Forever sombre is the heart of every evening swallowed In ruins are the pieces that you laid in hallowed harmony These veins are filled with ice which sleeps within the hollow Your darkness is not waiting, it has already arrived
Coming down slow Feel the inevitable against your skin Let it in
Like a wound which is not healing it is eating your mind The air is thick around your safe & dying presence You do not want to see the days that lies ahead of you Are you afraid to feel the blackness that your future is?
THIS IS YOUR DARKEST HOUR YOUR SOUL IT WILL DEVOUR REACH OUT & TOUCH YOUR BEING YOUR LIFE SHALL NOT RETURN
Awake, the whole world hates me Awake, the whole world denies me Morning captures me totally unaware I'm off the edge today, am I not I'm off the world today, am I not Night grabs me totally aware
No one has brought me here I have not been gone so long No one will take me there, I haven't got no choice Who's digging the ground in the depths Who's digging my holes to be
Morning, alright is it not Night for the living, am I here In between where can it be now What do you get from this light All time, no where, anywhere, no Who are you really, where do you hide
BEHOLD, I AM ALIVE ETERNALLY THEY ARE WAITING TO TAKE US TAKE US INTO THE GARDEN OF DEPTHS BEHOLD, I AM DEAD FOREVER
why?
BEHOLD, I AM ALIVE ETERNALLY THEY ARE WAITING TO TAKE US TAKE US INTO THE GARDEN OF DEPTHS BEHOLD, I AM DEAD FOREVER
There is nowhere left to go, tomorrow never gets here to this abandoned ground, where I can sleep within
Now the air is dark, now the coldness breathes now you see the sign, now you see it reign
when this fire starts to weaken out your soul the tender bows of innocence is the first to burn the cold and empty winds will rise and all the goodness is in fear
WALK WITH ME TO PAIN & SUFFOCATION WALK THROUGH ME WITH ANGER & FRUSTRATION WALK AROUND ME WITH THE FEAR & ACHE CAN YOU FEEL IT? ARE YOU READY TO BREAK?
When the seed is sown, you're about to see
that the evil that you fed, is nothing else but me you will beg to be, a soulless evil being do you know my name? do you feel the shame?
there is nowhere left to hide and the only way is to ride upon the crucial tide, you're stuck with me until you die
There is no where left to go, tomorrow never gets here to this abandoned ground, where I can sleep within
When I get to the bottom I go back to the top of the slide Where I stop and I turn and I go for a ride Till I get to the bottom and I see you again.
Do you, don't you want me to love you I'm coming down fast but I'm miles above you Tell me tell me tell me come on tell me the answer You may be a lover but you ain't no dancer.
Helter skelter helter skelter Helter skelter.
Will you, won't you want me to make you I'm coming down fast but don't let me break you Tell me tell me tell me the answer You may be a lover but you ain't no dancer.
Look out helter skelter helter skelter Helter skelter
Look out, cause here she comes.
When I get to the bottom I go back to the top of the slide And I stop and I turn and I go for a ride And I get to the bottom and I see you again
Well do you, don't you want me to make you I'm coming down fast but don't let me break you Tell me tell me tell me the answer You may be a lover but you ain't no dancer.
Look out helter skelter helter skelter Helter skelter Look out helter skelter She's coming down fast Yes she is Yes she is.