Venezuelan producer, DJ, multi-instrumentalist, and composer Federico Ágreda began using the alias Zardonic for his drum'n'bass productions as a teenager in 2004. Accompanied by a distinctive white mask with eye slots and a dark, vertical dividing line, the moniker not only distinguished the project from his black metal aliases (Gorepriest, Sol Nocturno) but from related dark ambient and industrial noise projects such as Triangular Ascension and Intimus Universum, though his music blurs the distinctions between metal and heavy electronic dance music. After releasing a handful ...