Ceremony - 2012 Zoo

Band : Ceremony

Album : Zoo

Release Year : 2012

Genre : Hardcore | Punk

Tracklist :

1. Hysteria
2. Citizen
3. Repeating The Circle
4. World Blue
5. Quarantine
6. Brace Yourself
7. Adult
8. Hotel
9. Ordinary People
10. Nosebleed
11. Community Service
12. Video

Ceremony are a punk band from Rohnert Park, California, just outside of San Francisco. Their three albums on the Deathwish and Bridge 9 labels are widely seen as the most compelling, unusual and progressive hardcore of the last five years.For their Matador debut Zoo, produced by John Goodmanson (Blood Brothers, Sleater-Kinney, Girls, Weezer), the band have refined their jagged sound while continuing to pursue themes of exurban alienation and confinement.
Zoo explores punk and post-punk traditions: the rhythm section remains as tense and propulsive as ever, while guitarist Anthony Anzaldo moves with ease from ringing power chords to stealthy leads reminiscent of Gang of Four and The Cramps. Ross Farrar’s future primitive vocals sometimes recall Pink Flagor Metal Box, ranging from a melodic howl to a muttered incantation. The result is gripping and indelible.

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Ceremony - 2011 6 Cover Songs

Band : Ceremony

Album : 6 Cover Songs
Release Year : 2011

Genre : Thrash | Hardcore | Punk

Tracklist :

01. Public Opinion (Urban Waste Cover)
02. Nimrods Son (The Pixies Cover)
03. Holocaust (Crisis Cover)
04. American Society (Eddie and the Subtitles Cover)
05. 5 to 10 (Vile Cover)
06. Pink Flag (Wire Cover)

The calendar year still says 2011, but one of modern hardcore's best acts, Ceremony, should be on your radar by now as the band to play very close attention to in 2012. Just last year, they released Rohnert Park, an innovative, genre-transcending album that earned them the high honor of placing second on AwkwardSound's Best Albums of 2010 list. Since then, the DIY punks who have seen most of their outputsreleased on venerable Boston hardcore label, Bridge Nine, has signed on to join the outstanding roster at Matador Records, who will release their fourth LP sometime next year. While Matador is currently home to much tamer independent artists such as Sonic Youth, Cold Cave and Interpol, Ceremony will be beefing up the label's hardcore contingent by joining their contemporaries, Fucked Up, who has seen their star rise by leaps and bounds since teaming up with the indie powerhouse. Before that happens, however, Ceremony is delivering one last swan song for the label who put them on the map -- and doing so in a fashion that let's the music world know they remember where they're rooted.

The 6 Cover Songs EP is exactly as it sounds: A covers album where Ceremony unleashes their growling multi-dimensional hardcore style on "classics" by bands who've influenced their sound. It should come as no surprise that the EP starts off in typical riot-like fashion with the all-too-fitting cover of "Public Opinion," originally done by short-lived '80s New York hardcore act, Urban Waste. In conjunction with takes of Crisis' "Holocaust" and Vile's "5 to 10," it's a no brainer that Ceremony has been brought up on a steady diet of powerviolence that continues to inspire their ferocious sound today. There's also the more left-of-the-dial picks, too, that remind us that even though the Bay Area band is in most instances consumed by a sound of fury, they have an appreciation for music outside the hardcore scene.

They do just that when they flex their underlying indie rock muscle with a gruff and clanky version of The Pixies' classic, "Nimrod's Son" as well as melodically heavy spins on OC punks, Eddie and the Subtitle's "American Society" and "Pink Flag" by UK post-punk mainstays, Wire. Ceremony's 6 Cover Songs EP doesn't necessarily reinvent the wheel on these songs nor do any of these tracks surpass the quality of the band's own music, but despite it's varied spread of influences, the EP as a whole is consistent in that it's equal parts Ceremony as well as the musicians they're paying homage to here. That's as much as you could ask for in a covers album by the impending next big thing. -awkwardsound 

 

 

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Ceremony - 2006 Violence Violence

Band : Ceremony

Album : Violence Violence
Release Year : 2006

Genre : Thrash / Hardcore / Punk

Tracklist :

1. Violence 

2. Ghosts 

3. Living Hell 

4. My Hands Are Made Of Spite 

5. Along 

6. Nail 

7. Bite Down 

8. Cross Them Out 

9. Violence 

10. Clouds Of Fire 

11. Pressure's On 

12. Walking Home 

13. Asleep 

14. Kersed 

15. It's Going To Be A Cold Winter 

16. This Is My War 

17. You're All The Same 

18. Troubled Waters 

19. Throwing Bricks 

20. I Want To Put This To An End

Violence, Violence indeed. Furious as hell Hardcore from California that will rip your head off. Ceremony put the pedal to the metal and show no mercy. This is music to get pissed off to.

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