http://https://open.spotify.com/album/5s02KPkBjMkrz9zUJBWXDA?si=wm699T9KRDqFyL_7JogP3Q

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//To say that this album is a reinvention if Black Metal, is to state the obvious at it’s most basic level//
Coming off the front pages of Bandcamp, yet the dark recesses of Spotify, this album reinvents not only Black Metal, but each genre it touches. Blending together a potent mix of Soul, R&B, Sludge Metal, Black Metal, and even more potently raw samples of protests that occurred in the wake of the George Floyd massacre, Zeal And Ardor’s “The Wake Of A Nation” paints a stunning picture of a long-oppressed peoples, shot because of the color of their skin, now rising up in retaliation.
  The opening track, aptly titled “vigil”, seems to set scene perfectly for what you’re about to experience. It starts with a piano reprise and statement of loss that could almost bring you to your knees, followed by the last words of five innocent victims of police brutality, and the promise of rising up that rings like the most haunting sonnet.
  From here, the album is ripped to the wildly-abrasive and reckless, black-metal banger Tuskegee- about a 40 year experiment which left 600 innocent African Americans to suffer from Syphilis, just to watch the effects of it.
From here, the album seems to stick to the more Sludge and Soul inspired elements of this album, often overlaid with black metal vocals for extra beautiful abrasion.
  It ends with the catchy, Tribalistic, title track, that uses German wording to convey the album’s central theme: now is the time for revolution.

Overall: 9.5/10. I wish it was longer than 17 minutes.

Pairs well with: literally any Black Metal album; Wrong Generation by Fever 333