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Falling from Zero

album by Heaven Below

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 27, 2025
Entity authorityQ15737120
Source-derived summary

Falling From Zero is the second studio album from Los Angeles rock band Heaven Below. The album was released on March 20, 2012 via Broken Halo Media.

Composition

“The Mirror Never Lies”, the fourth song on the album, is a charity single for Children Without A Voice.

"Gravity Killed The Spaceman", the ninth song on the album, recognizes David Bowie's Space Oddity while "Major Tom" is a cover of Peter Schilling's 1980s hit single paired with an original framework from the ensemble.

The video for "Dodging a Bullet", the third song on the album, was directed by Adam Hendershott and Industrialism Films. The video features the musicians reenacting Pulp Fiction.

Release

The compact disc was released with 4 bonus tracks as well as The Mirror Never Lies: Mega-Single.

Critical reception

Jon Ondrashek of Target Audience Magazine states that the title track “Falling From Zero” features hard percussion and scraping vocals.

Track listing

Main album

The Last Goodbye - 1:00

Brutal As The Truth - 3:46

Dodging A Bullet - 3:27

The Mirror Never Lies - 3:58

Higher Than Heaven - 3:46

My Undoing - 3:26

Demonocracy - 4:11

Falling From Zero - 3:41

Gravity Killed The Spaceman (Pt. III of the Space Oddity, "Major Tom" trilogy) - 3:43

Nations Of Fire - 4:40

Villains Of Virtue - 3:45

Facing Angels - 4:36

Be All End All - 3:03

Failure Notice - 3:17

Legions Of The Brave/Closer (Hidden Track) - 8:49

CD-only bonus tracks

16.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Falling from Zero” is album by Heaven Below. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Falling, Zero and album, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2012—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2012-10-18. For this dossier, Falling, Zero and album is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “album by Heaven Below” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 27, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q15737120. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2012.

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This entry incorporates text from Falling from Zero” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.