Manuel Gagneux began writing music as Zeal & Ardor with a point to prove. A regular on 4chan forums around 2013, he was taking requests to mash genres together when one user, with a racist ...

thumbing his nose to genre convention and inviting his bandmates into the studio to make their boldest statement yet… Listen to Zeal & Ardor’s brand-new single to my ilk – which has ...

If you’ve ever listened to Zeal & Ardor, you know those guys know how to go off. Mixing spiritual music with black metal to create a blissfully hellish avant-garde powerhouse, the brainchild of Manuel ...

Plus new music from Sevendust, At the Gates, Zeal & Ardor and Chelsea Grin, touring news from Anthrax and more in Wire-to-Wire. Zeal & Ardor’s mix of black metal, blues and traditional slave ...

The next track from Zeal & Ardor’s self-titled third LP sees Manuel Gagneux focussing on lyrics and atmosphere, rather than “using harsh tones to convey heaviness”. ArcTanGent 2022 has ...