Watch the Zeal & Ardor Eerie New Video for “Devil Is Fine”
The album Devil Is Fine is out Globally on February 24, 2017. The video for the title track “Devil Is Fine” premiered via Noisey at the end of 2016. Watch the powerful and arresting clip here. Devil is Fine hosts songs that join the clank of chains with heavy, hypnotic riffs, and that combine the xylophone with demonic chants in Latin. Building off of the album’s inspiration from music that soundtracked American slavery, a young man is chained between two trees, jerking his way back-and-forth. From the tree, he stares into a bird bath that shows the image of angelic figures transforming into demons.
Zeal & Ardor have been generating significant buzz online for the past year and it’s only growing louder by the day. With accolades from the aforementioned Noisey, Rolling Stone, and Alternative Press, the project is poised to grab even further global attention in 2017.
Zeal & Ardor is the one-man brainchild of Manuel Gagneux, a Swiss-American formerly based in New York City. His approach draws on an alternate history and stems from two thoughts: Christianity was imposed upon American slaves, just as it was imposed in Norway, and black metal in the ’90s grew as a rebellion to monotheism. What would have happened if American slaves had rebelled in the same way? Or put bluntly: What would satanic spirituals sound like?
Editors Note:
I get dozens of releases for videos, records and tours. I typical do not follow black metal. HOWEVER, the “Devil is Fine” video caught my attention and based on that, I made a decision to share with fans of The Pit! The Pit Crew!
The song, by itself, is a definite divorce from what I would consider standard black metal fair, but Zeal & Ardor brought a different sound that has a blues, slave spiritual, and chain gang feel to it. Not to mention the imagery found on the video is unforgettable and entrancing.
I am not sure about the rest of the record, but this song is officially in my rotation in the office.
Watch the Zeal & Ardor video. What are your thoughts about this song?
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