Following their recent trek with Meshuggah which included a mesmerising Jubilee performance in London’s Royal Albert Hall, Zeal & Ardor are pleased to confirm details of their headlining UK and European tour this Fall & Winter.
The extensive run kicks off with seven UK shows in early November and calls into 14 countries, wrapping up in Switzerland mid-December.
Tickets go on sale at 10am local time this Friday from all good box offices and via the band’s official here.
UK & European Tour Dates 2022:
Sun 6th Nov – UK – COLCHESTER Colchester Arts Center
Mon 7th Nov – UK – BRIGHTON Concorde 2
Tue 8th Nov – UK – BRISTOL Trinity Center
Wed 9th Nov – UK – MANCHESTER Academy 2
Fri 11th Nov – UK – GLASGOW Òran Mór
Sat 12th Nov – UK – WOLVERHAMPTON KK’s Steel Mill
Sun 13th Nov – UK – LONDON Electric Brixton
Tue 15th Nov – NL – AMSTERDAM Melkweg Oz
Wed 16th Nov – FR – PARIS Élysée Montmartre
Fri 18th Nov – DE – STUTTGART Im Wizemann
Sun 20th Nov – DE – BERLIN Columbia Theater
Mon 21st Nov – DE – COLOGNE Die Kantine
Tue 22nd Nov – DE – FRANKFURT Zoom
Thu 24th Nov – DE – MUNICH Backstage Werk
Fri 25th Nov – DE – LEIPZIG Ut Connewitz
Mon 28th Nov – SE – STOCKHOLM Debaser
Tue 29th Nov – SE – GOTHENBURG Pustervik
Wed 30th Nov – NO – OSLO Rockefeller Music Hall
Thu 1st Dec – DK – COPENHAGEN Pumpehuset
Sat 3rd Dec – DE – HAMBURG Gruenspan
Mon 5th Dec – PL – GDANSK B90 Club
Tue 6th Dec – PL – WARSAW Proxima
Wed 7th Dec – PL – KRAKOW Kwadrat
Thu 8th Dec – CZ – PRAGUE Meetfactory
Sat 10th Dec – AT – VIENNA Wuk
Sun 11th Dec – HU – BUDAPEST A38
Tue 13th Dec – HR – ZAGREB Mocvara
Wed 14th Dec – IT – MILAN Circolo Magnolia
Thu 15th Dec – CH – PRATTELN Z7
Released in February 2022, Zeal & Ardor’s self-titled, latest album hisses and seethes with condensed fury. Recorded by Marc Obrist and Manuel Gagneux at Hutch Sounds, “Zeal & Ardor” was mixed & mastered by Will Putney at Graphic Nature Audio. All songs were written and performed (except drums) by the multi-lingual Gagneux. The 14-track album is available digitally, as a digipack CD, and as a black vinyl, a white vinyl (indie exclusive), or a deluxe, gatefold, double black vinyl.
Zeal & Ardor’s widely praised second album, “Stranger Fruit”, was released by MVKA in 2018, following the global attention-getting, multi-million streamed debut, “Devil is Fine”. Critically acclaimed across the industry, The Guardian newspaper described “Stranger Fruit” as “extraordinary and brilliant” upon release. Upset wrote it was “a compelling listen”, Metal Hammer applauded its “sheer musical brilliance”, with Rock Sound concluding, it was “one of the most uniquely daring and wholly affecting albums of 2018 so far”, plus further plaudits rolling in from Rolling Stone, Kerrang!, Noisey, Alternative Press, and more. By Christmas 2018, the UK’s largest free newspaper Metro declared “Stranger Fruit” their #2 Album of the Year in a cross-genre list, declaring “in this jaw-dropping meld of black American folk music and black metal, the Swiss artist Manuel Gagneux has hit upon something genuinely original”. In March 2019, following a blistering set in London the previous December, the band went on to release the double live album “Live In London”. Then, in October 2020, amidst a provocative and stimulating 18-month profound period of reflection – that led to the writing of the forthcoming self-titled album – the band quietly shared the striking, standalone 6-track EP, “Wake of a Nation”. Their intense third album, crystallising everything the band are, was released in February 2022.
Weblinks:
www.zealandardor.com
www.facebook.com/zealandardor
