ZEAL & ARDOR "Götterdämmerung" REACTION & ANALYSIS by Metal Vocalist / Vocal Coach
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- čas přidán 5. 02. 2022
- I've wanted to talk about Zeal and Ardor for a LONG TIME on this channel. Manuel's vocals have expanded in my opinion, and I love the agression in this song! If you haven't listened to Zeal and Ardor, you ABSOLUTELY should! Lets hang out while I react to and analyze "Götterdämmerung" by Zeal and Ardor!
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Stellar vid!
Q: Are Zeal & Ardor black metal?
A: Who cares? Their music is fire.
Zeal and ardor is weird with Genres. This song feels a lot black metal than others, yet Devil is fine and Gravediggers Chant are much more Bluesy/slave Chanty. Extremely Unique band.
I love how fluid they are. One song to the next can change tremendously, but they're always so soulful and full of emotion. So good.
Like a modern Opeth, kindof
This whole album is just insane! I can already guess it's gonna be my album of the year 🤘
@@TrubH Its honestly one of the only black metal albums I could listen to in its entirety and actually like. It's amazing how the concept sounds so gimmicky but is executed in a way that feels natural instead of forced.
There is a video of Manuel shopping for records where he briefly talks about where the inspiration for the mix of genres comes from. He recommends some amazing albums in it too.
Zeal & Ardor sound sooooo good live! It's crazy to think this band was birthed as a 4chan "suggest me two genres of music and I'll make a song with them." The result was this black metal and chain gang fusion that is weirdly so awesome and fun. But yeah, they absolutely kill it live.
What a wild way to start a band. It work, though!
black metal and [n-word] music
its 4chan after all
check out birdmask as well, its his previous work (i like halcyon days)
oh also always interested in more zeal and ardor - very few videos about them
Saw them with opeth and mastodon, they were incredible man. Was a big fan before the live show, but them live jumped me to a whole new level
The evolution of his screams is insane from record to record. As fa as I know Zeal & Ardor is his first metal project and in the first record the screams sounded samey. On this tho he has really gotten into the details. Very impressive imo
he an extremely creative and motivated guy, he's definitely constantly practicing
"Death to the Holy" off this same album is a great song.
I love run, listened to it non-stop when it came out. The whole album is terrific
@@matthewengland6428 YES!
@@matthewengland6428 true true
The part from 21:30 to 21:40 made me perk up because of the lyrics.
"Walle walle manche Strecke, dass zum Zwecke Götter sterben" is a very on-the-nose reference to Goethe's "Der Zauberlehrling":
Walle walle manche Strecke
Dass zum Zwecke Wasser fließe
Und mit reichem vollen Schwalle
Zu dem Bade sich ergieße.
Fucking amazing.
Hi, I'm French and I have'nt understand the whole vidéo but it's very intersting ! I love Zeal and Ardor, they needs to be more known because they are bringing a new way to make Metal and it's so good !
The part when Manuel Gagneux says "Deus, Magnus, etc" is very cool, it's resonnating like a sermon from gods.
I hope I'm comprehensible lol.
also that protest ep was WAY TOO GOOD to go under the radar
If we’re talking Wake of a Nation, that was Pulitzer-prize worthy
I was soooo excited to see this video! Z&A are an amazing band, both the idea and the execution of the genre mix is pretty much flawless and Manuel's voice is extremely special!
Z&A is 1000% a lesson into how to fuse genres effectively. Im glad you enjoyed the video!
Oh wow, I can’t wait for tomorrow! 😀 I heard this band for the first time last week and am working my way through their discography right now. This is the song I come back to the most. His black metal screams are 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻 and it just hits so hard.
Totally agree. His clean voice is great, and his harsh voice is superb as well
I was just expecting someone digging the dude's brilliant vocals, but I actually learned a lot from just this video. Thanks, dude.
Stoked you got Z&A on the channel. The theatrics of his voice are amazing throughout the whole album One of my favourite bands
Hell yeah, me too! I'd love to have Manuel on the channel sometime.
Solid review! This is the song that really got me intro Z&A
As always thx for the great review. I love to explore new bands and song from your channel.
Thanks for the kind words! Hopefully you enjoy the Z&A Rabbit hole!
You’re reading my mind man. I thought about requesting this a couple weeks ago and never got around to it then you posted it!
This is very cool, best explanation of false cord techniques I've seen on CZcams.
I’m glad to hear I hope you had an enjoyable break Mark.
Thanks for this! Reminded me I need to pick up this album on vinyl. I’ve been in love with this band since they released Stranger Fruit in 2018. Love that you’re covering them. They don’t get enough love!
Stranger fruit was wild, especially when later on I was introduced to "Strange Fruit" as sung by Billie Holiday. Hits hard.
holy shit this song is amazing!! I love to get these gems from you
I love Zeal and Ardor so much! I don't care if it is a soft or heavy song, i get goosebumps all the time
You earned a sub.
Great information here broken down.
Great choice to take a break. Your CZcams channel should never become a burden
i'm a simple man.
i see zeal and ardor, i click
Beng of mixed hrritage myself and a huge metal and alt fan, I can not stress what this band means to me...
This song is dope, I will be listening to more of this band.
And, I fucking love you, Mark. Your energy is my favorite thing. And I have 2 kids
Think about it, man. 🤘
Zeal & Ardor is one of my favorites from the last half decade or so (jeez, that album came out in 2016...). So fresh. I don't always like each and every _song_ (some of the more atmospheric avant garde tracks, specifically), but Manuel is great at composing albums that take you on a journey. If you have an opportunity to see them live, definitely do so. Also, he is a funny guy who likes a lot of weird music, so check out some interviews with him, too.
Really appreciated the breakdown here (with the added bonus of confusing my wife as to what the heck I'm listening to). Zeal & Ardor's kinda keeping me sane right now, so the deep breakdown adds another layer of interest to why they're sticking to me so hard.
Same! I genuinely feel all around good when listening to em. Haven't had a newer band do that. Just found out about em 2 months ago. I can't stop listening.
4:18 the German pronunciation is alright. One does notice you are probably English-native speaker pronouncing the "ö" as "o", but it is something German speakers are used to when talking to non-native speakers. In German if there is these little dots above a vowl like ä, ö and ü, that means they are pronounced more like ae, oe, and ue.
"o" like in "oh god" becomes "ö" which sounds kind of like the "toilette-bowl ööööh there: 2:02" ^^
Thanks for the tip!
Such a brilliant band so underrated
Zeal & Ardor are dope! I am a sucker for obscure and mystical imagery. So they give me a lot. I think I read an interview with him where he said that the idea came from a challenge on 4chan where they were like 'what if black music X black metal' in less polite words. And he thought yeah what if gospel X black metal.
The German parts of the lyrics are awesome in an 'occult' context. Basicly he recites rhymes that sound like a witches spell on how to kill the gods.
I especially love: ritze zeichen in den boden bis um dich die erde bebt. Zeig den göttern wessen wille in dem höllenfeuer schwebt - carve runes into the ground tille the earth shakes around you. Show the gods whose will is in the hellfire.
Or: walle, walle manche strecke - which is aluides to goethes poem der zauberlehrling (i think there is a mickey mouse movie of this. Goethe is kind of a big deal in german poetry).
And yes götterdämmerung is ragnarök and the 4th and final part of wagners nibelungen operas (while the whole wagner thing is politicly at least difficult his music is pretty cool and the nibelungen story is pretty cool). Literally means dawn/twilight of the gods.
ZEAL & ARDOR is amazing! Every new single from this album has been great so far! The album comes out on February 11th.
My friend described them as "Satanic Slave Gospel Black Metal" and I was sold before hearing them lol.
That's pretty spot on! They blend it perfectly.
Supporting Meshuggah on their tour. Cannot fucking wait
His clean singing instantly reminded me of the style of Dax Riggs from Acid Bath. Some of the same inflections. The melody almost sounded Acid Bath like in that part as well
20:41 love your reaction. I also like this part bestand the german lyrics ans theoretisch precise pronounciation fit so well! Translation: Carve signs into the ground till the earth/ground around you Tremolos, show the gods whose will hovers in the hellfire. Now that I have translated it I notice how much more badass this sounds in german 😅
I just recently got into them because they were referenced on the Hail Satan podcast. The podcasters did a live react to the EP that Zeal & Ardor wrote after George Floyd's murder. I've been hooked by their hard-hitting, emotional onslaught ever since, which resonates on intersecting levels for me as both a black man in the US and a satanist.
The idea of chattel slaves rejecting the religion of their oppressors and embracing Christianity's adversary instead is such a heavy, moving concept, and I'm grateful to have found it in Zeal & Ardors' work.
If by chance you still see this comment, do you have a link for that?
@G czcams.com/video/EXKEL5US7wk/video.html
There ya go.
@@ScreamingInSongit's been a year so mostly commenting in case anyone else is curious
The EP is named Wake of A Nation.
Otherwise, their entire discog.
The new album - my black heart is happy 🤘🏽🤘🏽
Fucking love Z&A, go watch them live if ever you are able to 👌🏽
Loved Zeal and Ardor since the deleted self-titled album in like 2014.
their self-titled song never left my brain, his cleans are really something.
It's not entirely metal, but I'd be interested in your take on Endon - "Your Ghost Is Dead". Etsuo Nagura has some incredibly strange raw howling that doesn't seem distorted at all.
Super late but that song is incredible.
Oh fuck, the '14 album is real? I had half-convinced myself either I was crazy or I'd had it mixed up with something else. Gotta find that shit, the percussion on that was on-fucking-point.
Z&A are great. Future headliners of all rock fests.
Quel pied cet album ❤🤘🏽 kiss from France 🇫🇷
I think the best song from the album :) and the album is BANGEEER!
I need to check out the whole album!
We should revisit Hunter Madison in his new band SORROWEater - The Accuser, The Adversary. New style and definitely killing it.
Fragments of unbecoming “perdition portal”
Song title - twilight of the gods
Album art - as above so below
Lyrics - god is dead, and a heart warming hail satan
his way of throwing the vocals around reminds me a lot of finsterforst's Vocalist. check them out if you haven't already, Mach dich Frei is a banger.
I think the literal translation for Götterdämmerung is something akin to twilight of the gods. The opera Götterdämmerung is however translated to ragnarök often, witch means pretty much the same.
You’re the lead singer of Kardashev?? 😮😮 Wow. Liminal right was amazing!
German here. Yes, Götterdämmerung can be translated to Ragnarok but if you listen to the vocals it's not specifically about the northern gods but gods alltogether. It's about taking back the power of the immaginary concepts of the gods and destroying the lies.
Thanks for the clarification.
My impression is that it's more satanic (in the theistic sense) than atheistic. It's portraying a perspective in which the gods are real, and are being opposed in favor of the Devil. That's my impression anyway.
I like describing Zeal & Ardor as Blues Rock meets Black Metal
You should check out the new Cane Hill track Drag Me Down, he does an interesting low style I can't put my finger on and has some incredible cleans
New kublai khan dropped and me needs ur reaction.
Cool song! I haven't heard a lot of german screaming yet.
In regards of rich voice: he has a different project, Birdmask, which is more soul-pop. His versatility is amazing and I love all the genre-fusion he does. Zeal and Ardor is my personal best band I discovered this year.
That sounds dope, I'll have to check it out!
Gotterdammerung means "Twilight Of The Gods"
I'm not into screaming, but like the dark/hard metal so the Erdling Gotterdammerung from 2021 is on my playlists not this one lol. I enjoy the instrument playing side of things though so will always check stuff out, theres always something new out there you wouldn't normally find, much like my journey into German metal and electronic/symphonic metal
Anyone interested in lyrics they won't understand then the current stuff is Eisbrecher - OOMPH - Erdling - Maerzfeid - Heldmaschine - Mono inc - and Tanswurt for being probably the only band to be able to use bagpipes with light metal and raspy vocals lol
From what Ik with with the band is that they flipped the script were when Africans were enslaved in America and went to god they instead said what if we we went with the devil instead. The hand signs mean “as above so below”. One pointing to heaven and one to hell.
Not so much went to god as forced to believe in the christian god, but yes! It's a very cool concept.
Zeal & Ardor, Sylvaine and Foreign Hands are already the albums of 2022 (until new Kardashev comes
i need to request DNR by Left to Suffer ft Will Ramos and Ricky Hoover
Some trivia: German power/prog-ish metal band Blind Guardian wrote a song named “Twilight of the Gods” for their relatively recent album Beyond the Red Mirror. The track name is the most common translation of “Götterdämmerung.” Blind Guardian’s “Twilight of the Gods” is also a banger, but in a very different genre. Not necessarily reaction-material, but very much worth checking out if you’re into various sub-genres of metal.
Helloween and Grave Digger also have songs named "Twilight of the Gods" from 1987 and 2003 respectively. So Blind Guardian is at least the third German Power Metal band to use that title.
@@Blumenkind97 Thanks! I’ll add that to my playlist as well as my trivia.
The first band I thought of when seeing the translation Götterdämmerung - Twilight of the Gods was Bathory, which is often named as the first black metal band or at least at the front of te first wave. Their album Twilight of the Gods came out in 1991, the year the second wave started. I don't know if this is intentionally done, but if so, nice shout out :)
Twilight of the Gods
So funny when english speakers pronounce German 😅🤘🏻
Haha I give it my best but im soooo bad at german. French and Spanish I'm alright but german....too much for me apparantly :P
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Take a Listen to DeadVectors.. kenny is a bomb!
I'd say they're black/death metal plus African spiritual music
Z+A isn’t straightforward black metal imo but he wrote it/started it to be absolutely influenced by black metal.
pearl jam & ardor
Ketzerei
Zeal & Ardor= black spirituals and black metal
If your going with vocal style you should check out I caught you
I'll check it out!
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you're a BEAST
Slave black metal
It's some sort of "what would black ppl do" if they wouldn't find to the religion of there suppressor
Götterdämmerung is the final fight of the north goddess against there opponents, so quite a end of the world we know thing
React to Sleep Token's- is it really you originally by Loathe
"Blues Metal" (just my opinion)
I can see that!
Zeal and ardor is great but one of the biggest issues I had with them is that all their songs sounds the same. It isnt bad per say but not great.
You're trying to say Erase sounds like Don't You Dare? Don't you Dare sounds like We can't be found? We can't be found sounds like Children's Summon? Yes, there are some recurring riffs and melody themes here and there, but their songs and albums so far branch out at least a little from their previous stuff, and they're actually getting heavier.
@@ptr_does_music7042 oh yea I noticed they are getting heavier and I love that, their newer stuff sounds really good and what I mean is I don't mean all their stuff but most of their stuff is structured in the same way pratically to sounding very closely the same but not exactly. I am picky as hell btw lol.