This is Ceremony’s first video for their song 'World Blue' off their upcoming album ‘Zoo’, and despite the fact that it only lasts 1:39 minute, it is damn efficient with its black and white retro look matching the sound.
The video makes you feel the violent energy of a chaotic mosh pit, while reinventing all the stage diving madness, re-imagining all the rib-elbows contacts, and almost recreating the sweat all over the place.
The sound of the song is not really hardcore anymore, the raw hostility of the screaming is gone, it is a new direction toward a sort of melodic garage rock, with aggressive guitars and diverse influences, and more on the catchy side than their previous work. It should be an interesting album, out on March 6th via Matador Records.
Didn’t Iman see them recently? And he found them quite good, so catch them during their tour:
03/06 – San Francisco, CA @ Amoeba (Free In-Store)
03/08 – Los Angeles, CA @ Eagle Rock Center for the Arts *
03/09 – Anaheim, CA @ Chain Reaction
03/10 – Berkley, CA @ 924 Gilman Street
03/16-17 – Austin, TX @ South by Southwest
03/19 – Kingston, UK @ Fighting Cocks
03/20 – London, UK @ Koko
03/21 – Bristol, UK @ Fleece
03/22 – Nottingham, UK @ Rock City Basement
03/23 – Manchester, UK @ Moho
03/24 – Leeds, UK @ The Well
04/06 – Portland, OR @ Branx
04/07 – Seattle, WA @ The Vera Project
04/13 – Chicago, IL @ Subterranean
04/20 – Cambridge, MA @ The Democracy Center
04/21 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Barbary
04/22 – Washington, DC @ RAS Hall
06/03 – Austin, TX @ Chaos in Tejas
* = w/ Chelsea Wolfe