Zeal & Ardor’s New Single “To My Ilk” is Hauntingly Calm, New Album Expected August

If you’ve ever listened to Zeal & Ardor, you know those guys know how to go off. Mixing spiritual music with black metal to create a blissfully hellish avant-garde powerhouse, the brainchild of Manuel Gagneux rarely ever goes without expressing its explosive rage in a track.

Yet just a couple hours ago, Zeal & Ardor dropped a new single “To My Ilk” and not once does it fly off the handle with great vengeance and furious anger. The accompanying video/visualizer is simple, showing what looks like the silhouette of a gryphon above a description of what one of those is.

This track just has to go into some heavy shit. It’s sad, it’s contemplative, and it has to be the veritable calm before the storm, as it were. But it’s not. It’s actually the final track on the band’s upcoming studio effort GREIF.

Though that album isn’t yet listed on Spotify, you can find it on Apple Music. And according to that listing, it’s releasing on August 23 with 14 new tracks. That’s about all we know about this release thus far, so hopefully we’ll hear some more tunes and hear from Gagneux about it when the time’s right. In the meantime, check out the new song, with the album’s apparent track list below.

Zeal & Ardor, GREIF tracklist:

01 – “the Bird, the Lion and the Wildkin”
02 – “Fend You Off”
03 – “Kilonova”
04 – “are you the only one now?”
05 – “Go home my friend”
06 – “Clawing out”
07 – “Disease”
08 – “369”
09 – “Thrill”
10 – “une ville vide”
11 – “Sugarcoat”
12 – “Solace”
13 – “Hide In Shade”
14 – “to my ilk”