“Django sacrifices a goat on stage while intimidating slave chants roar and screeching guitar riffs burn in the background. Then the rhythmic chain rattling evoking a satanic summoning makes way for the eerily familiar melodies of Norwegian black metal,” band Zeal and Ardor describe themselves on Bandcamp. Although this is a succinct summary of their work, there is so much more to Zeal and Ardor…
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