Zeal & Ardor

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Zeal & Ardor at the ZMF 2019 in Freiburg
Zeal & Ardor in London 2018
Manuel Gagneux at the Winterthurer Musikfestwochen 2017

Zeal & Ardor ( English for "zeal and heat") is a music project by the American-Swiss Manuel Gagneux. The style of music is characterized by the mixture of gospel and black metal .

history

Zeal & Ardor was founded in 2013 by the Basel musician Manuel Gagneux. The idea for the project comes from a conversation on the 4chan internet platform . When Gagneux asked which two musical genres he should use to create a piece, he received the answers Black Metal and “ nigger music ”. After initial hesitation, he convinced himself of the idea and recorded several songs. Their publication was initially ignored. It was only after being discovered by American music journalist Kim Kelly that the tracks went viral on June 3, 2016.

The debut album Devil Is Fine was released on record in a limited edition in August 2016. The album was first released on CD on February 24, 2017.

In 2017 Zeal & Ardor went on a European tour for the first time, for which the solo project was expanded into a band. The new band members are Tiziano Volante (guitar), Mia Rafaela Dieu (bass), Marco von Allmen (drums), Mark Obrist and Denis Wagner (both backing vocals).

The music magazine Noisey listed Devil Is Fine as the sixth best album of 2016. In 2017, Zeal & Ardor won the Basel Pop Prize. In 2018 Zeal & Ardor was nominated for the Swiss Music Award in the category Best Live Act . Zeal & Ardor was also nominated for the Metal Hammer Awards and the Loudwire Music Awards 2017 in the categories Best Debut and Best New Artist .

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Devil Is Fine
  CH 17th 05.03.2017 (2 weeks)
Stranger Fruit
  DE 27 June 15, 2018 (1 week)
  AT 30th 06/22/2018 (1 week)
  CH 2 06/17/2018 (5 weeks)
  • 2014: Zeal and Ardor
  • 2016: Devil Is Fine
  • 2018: Stranger Fruit
  • 2019: Live in London (Live Album)

Web links

Commons : Zeal & Ardor  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c zeit.de: What the hell is that? , accessed February 19, 2018
  2. ↑ Neue Zürcher Zeitung: Black rhymes with black
  3. ↑ rfv.ch: Zeal & Ardor - Devil Is Fine: Brutally grounded
  4. ↑ noisey.vice.com: The 100 Best Albums of 2016 , accessed February 19, 2018
  5. ↑ Three times metal: Zeal & Ardor win Basler Pop-Preis - 2017 - News - Magazin - RFV Basel. Retrieved January 16, 2020 .
  6. ↑ telebasel.ch: Zeal & Ardor nominated as Best Live Act , accessed on February 19, 2018
  7. ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH