Zeal & Ardor - Zeal & Ardor (2022)

If you don't know Manuel Gagneux yet, keep this name in mind: he is the mentor of the Swiss band Zeal & Ardor, who have just released their third album of the same name.
Formada em 2013, a banda mistura como poucos uma variedade extensa de sonoridades como notoriamente o Black metal com Groove, Blues, Soul, Pop, Gospel, Country e muitos outros estilos, tudo feito de uma forma arrojada, única e primorosa. Na verdade, está fórmula foi adotada logo no início do projeto no seu ótimo debut ” Devil os Fine” lançado em 2016 e no segundo álbum o incrível Stranger Fruit de 2018.

It's important when listening to Zeal & Ardor to let go of all your restraints and open your horizons. This isn't a black metal album, it's much more than that, it's an album of powerful music, with a huge explosion of energy that shocks you right from the start. Songs like Run, Death To the Holy, catapult us into an almost evangelical experience, such is the visceral intensity of the songs. From then on things only get better, Golden Liar, Bow, Church Burns just to name a few are works of art in every sense.
This third album is undoubtedly the consolidation of Zeal & Ardor, closing this first trilogy in a unique and great way, we are facing one of the most interesting bands on the scene and one of the best albums of 2022 without a doubt.
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