Zeal & Ardor

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Carpenter Brut, Zeal & Ardor and more for RADAR Festival 2025

RADAR Festival 2025 is go! The Manchester event has unveiled the first 15 names for next year, including Carpenter Brut as a UK exclusive.

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The first wave of bands have been announced for Desertfest London 2025

Zeal & Ardor and Elder are set to headline Desertfest 2025, while elsewhere the likes of Amenra, Stoned Jesus, The Devil & The Almighty Blues, Planet Of Zeus and more will be playing across the Camden weekender.

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Album review: Zeal & Ardor – GREIF

Avant-garde Swiss trailblazer Manuel Gagneux turns another page through Zeal & Ardor’s involving and endlessly creative fourth album, GREIF.

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Zeal & Ardor drop new single, announce North American headline tour

“We would be remiss if we didn’t share something closer to what we are known for…” Stream Zeal & Ardor’s almighty new single Hide In Shade.

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Zeal & Ardor show their “honest and vulnerable” side with new single, Fend You Off

Zeal & Ardor have peeled back another layer of their upcoming fourth album GREIF – listen to Fend You Off now…

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Zeal & Ardor: “The more music we put into this world, the more obvious it becomes who we really are”

Over the last decade, Zeal & Ardor has grown from a niche experiment inspired by a bigoted shitpost into one of the most exciting and invigorating outfits in avant-garde metal. With fearless fourth album GREIF, Manuel Gagneux is still broadening horizons, thumbing his nose to genre convention and inviting his bandmates into the studio to make their boldest statement yet…

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Zeal & Ardor release new single, to my ilk, from upcoming fourth album

Listen to Zeal & Ardor’s brand-new single to my ilk – which has “another level of emotion” according to Manuel Gagneux.

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The Kerrang! verdict on the 50 albums that shaped 2022.

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All the highlights from ArcTanGent 2022

Last weekend, we headed west to ArcTanGent for three days of the weird, wonderful, and well-good. Here’s all the best bits…

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Bloodstock announce 10 bands for 2023, including two headliners

Bloodstock have already confirmed 10 bands for next year’s line-up – including two headliners, Killswitch Engage and Megadeth!

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Zeal & Ardor unveil massive UK and European winter tour

Fresh from supporting Meshuggah, the mighty Zeal & Ardor are heading out on a mammoth 29-date tour in winter.

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From Mike Patton to Iron Maiden: The icons who inspired Zeal & Ardor

Zeal & Ardor’s take on black metal is an eclectic melting pot. But what inspires the broad church of noise? Mainman Manuel Gagneux reveals the musical heroes that guide him…

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The making of Bring Me The Horizon – only in the new issue of Kerrang! magazine

Bring Me The Horizon hit the cover of Kerrang! magazine as we discover how they took on their final form and why they’ll always do whatever the hell they want…

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The big review: Zeal & Ardor – Zeal & Ardor

Swiss-American avant-black metal outfit Zeal & Ardor hit harder than ever on brilliant third album…

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Zeal & Ardor: “I just want to take people by surprise”

Zeal & Ardor were only meant to be a one-time thing on the internet. Now, on the eve of their brilliant, self-titled third album, they’ve become celebrated as one of metal’s most forward-thinking bands. For mainman Manuel Gagneux, it’s a strange development to process. Here’s how he went from a teenage punk hanging out in Swiss squats, to the man lighting up heavy music…

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Listen to Church Burns, the final single from Zeal & Ardor’s new album

Zeal & Ardor’s upcoming self-titled album is just around the corner now – listen to final single Church Burns now.

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22 new albums to get excited for in 2022

From Parkway Drive and PVRIS to blink-182 and Behemoth, there’s some truly colossal albums coming in 2022…

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Carpenter Brut, Zeal & Ardor and more for RADAR Festival 2025

The first wave of bands have been announced for ﻿Desertfest London 2025

Album review: Zeal & Ardor – GREIF

Zeal & ﻿Ardor drop new single, announce ﻿North American headline tour

Zeal & Ardor show their “honest and vulnerable” side with new single, Fend You Off

Zeal & Ardor: “The more music we put into this world, the more obvious it becomes who we really are”

Zeal & Ardor release new single, to my ilk, from upcoming fourth album

The 50 best albums of 2022

All the highlights from ArcTanGent 2022

Bloodstock announce 10 bands for 2023, including two headliners

Zeal & Ardor unveil massive UK and European winter tour

From Mike Patton to Iron Maiden: The icons who inspired Zeal & Ardor

The making of Bring Me The Horizon – only in the new issue of Kerrang! magazine

The big review: Zeal & Ardor – Zeal & Ardor

Zeal & Ardor: “I just want to take people by surprise”

Listen to Church Burns, the final single from Zeal & Ardor’s new album

22 new albums to get excited for in 2022

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The first wave of bands have been announced for Desertfest London 2025

Zeal & Ardor drop new single, announce North American headline tour