Zeal & Ardor is a band that have had me absolutely captivated. Their first two releases, Devil is Fine and Stranger Fruit, made my jaw drop. The poetry of combining beck and call rooted in African ...

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When Zeal & Ardor mastermind Manuel Gagneux dropped “Devil is Fine” in late 2016, metal’s lush family tree sprouted an entirely new branch. The turbulent concoction of black metal, classic blues and ...

Last year, Zeal & Ardor digitally released their debut album Devil Is Fine, it picked up some buzz, and now they’re giving it a worldwide physical release on February 24 via UK label MVKA. Zeal & ...

Zeal & Ardor’s sophomore album will officially see a 2018 release date. Stranger Fruit will be unleashed June 8, but you can check out the video for “Gravedigger’s Chant” right now. The experimental ...

Mastodon and Opeth ‘s co-headlining tour with support from Zeal & Ardor hit NYC’s Hammerstein Ballroom on Saturday (11/20). Mastodon were supporting their new album Hushed and Grim and they played a ...

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Zeal & Ardor is a Swiss avant-garde metal band started and led by Manuel Gagneux, a Swiss-American musician who had previously created a chamber pop project called Birdmask. Formed in 2013, the band ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

Zeal & Ardor’s last two singles, “Run” and “Erase,” were both devastatingly heavy. That is certainly not the case with the band’s latest, “Bow.” Bluesy, anthemic, and just begging to be used in a ...

Black metal bands are infamous for embracing neo-Nazi ideologies. In the 1980s, the satanic subgenre of metal emerged, and by the 1990s, a neo-fascist scene, the “national socialist black metal,” had ...

Last we wrote about genre-bending black metallers Zeal & Ardor was when we checked out frontman Manuel Gagneux’s yacht-rock side-project Soft Captain. Thankfully, though, Manuel still has ...