Pronounced Fold Zan-joor-ah.
Fold Zandura is an alternative rock band from California. They released four albums between 1995 and 1999, plus one white 7 vinyl. Each album was released under a different label.
Jerome Fontamillas and
Jyro Xhan also founded the industrial band
Mortal. Their songs are love songs and praise songs according to Jyro.
Founded in 1988 as Christian industrial metal dance band
Mortal and also
Fold Zandura. Originally known as
Mortal Wish, the duo added
Ray Tongpo and
Wilson Peralta, signed with [l342692], and released their debut album.
Legal issues with the
Mortal band name prompted
Jerome Fontamillas and
Jyro Xhan to form an alt-rock band,
Fold Zandura, which released one album and three EPs. The
Mortal name was revived in order to release a self-titled album on [l21206] in 1996, featuring three Fold Zandura songs. A 1998 best-of album, Godspeed, featured two non-album tracks.
Mortal was extant from 1988 to 1996, with a reunion album released by [l12328] in 2002, Nu-En-Jin, featuring Fontamillas and Xhan performing an electronic space-rock concept suite.
Fontamillas joined
Switchfoot in 2000, originally as a session musician and then a full-time member.
In 2022, Jyro and Jerome joined together again as
MorZan.