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1) Ceremony is a hardcore punk band from Rohnert Park, California, formed in 2005. The band features Ross Farrar (vocals), Anthony Anzaldo (guitar), Justin Davis (bass), Andy Nelson (guitar), and Jake Casarotti (drums). In 2005, the band released the EP, Ruined on Malfunction Records. This release was followed by their critically acclaimed first full-length album, Violence Violence, which included a re-recorded version of the Ruined EP. 2008 saw the release of Still Nothing Moves You, the band's first release on Bridge 9 Records, described by Keith Carman in Exclaim! magazine as "hardcore's equivalent of Hiroshima", which placed on Billboard's Top Internet and Top Heatseekers charts in August 2008. After touring all around the world[citation needed] with bands including Blacklisted, Converge, and AFI, they have released new music, including their third full-length album Rohnert Park in 2010. In 2011, the band confirmed they had signed with Matador Records, and their final Bridge 9 release would be a covers-only EP, featuring the band's take on songs by Urban Waste, Pixies, Crisis, Eddie and the Subtitles, Vile and Wire.
In March 2012, the band released the album Zoo on Matador Records which was a departure from the harder style even more so than the Rohnert Park album was, with the new record focusing on a more pre-hardcore punk sound in the style of Wire's Pink Flag (1977) album.[10][11]
On May 19, 2015, they released their second album on Matador, titled The L-Shaped Man.[12] This record saw them move even further into the post-punk realm with many comparing the album's sound to that of Joy Division.
Their sixth album, In the Spirit World Now, was released through Relapse Records on August 23, 2019
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2) Ceremony were a Post-Punk/Shoegaze band from Fredericksburg, Virginia, featuring John Fedowitz, (member of the shoegaze legend Skywave) and Sandra Fedowitz. The two-piece band was originally formed in 2005 incl. other band members, and has been touring Europe, Asia and the USA. They've changed their name to Ceremony East Coast. In 2021, both members joined fellow Skywave member Oliver Ackermann's A Place To Bury Strangers.
3) Ceremony is a rock band based in Australia with a worldwide release of their debut album available early 2008.
4) Ceremony was a short lived dutch death metal band that hybridized thunderous New York death metal with Scandinavian death metal.
5) Ceremony was a short-lived rock band, created by Chastity Bono, Cher's daughter, in 1993. Ceremony released one album, Hang Out Your Poetry, in 1993. The band featured Bono on vocals, acoustic guitar, and percussion. Other members were Heidi Shink a/k/a Chance, Pete McRae, Steve Bauman, Louis Ruiz, and Bryn Mathieu. All the songs except one were written or co-written by Bono, Heidi Shink, and Mark Hudson. There are no synthesizers or digital effects anywhere on the album.
6) Ceremony was a Dutch new wave band in the mid-eighties. Young and moody they played some short but impressive gigs.
7) Ceremony was a Death/Thrash Metal band from the USA now split-up (previous band of Morbid Angel lead singer Steve Tucker). They only released one demo ("Ceremony"), which was recorded again on a MCD ("The Days Before The Death") in 2000.
Don't Touch Me
Ceremony Lyrics
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gone into and around the back
I don't have any feelings, only some of servitude
cringing, crying, awake
don't look at me or anything
Volatile, simple minded, only sinking and deprived
all of you feeling nothing but to take
braking fingers, needing splints
all of you, i don't like you, i don't need
don't touch me you're sickening
The lyrics to Ceremony's song Don't Touch Me are quite dark and depict feelings of detachment and isolation. The opening lines, "Wretched feeling and feeling split, gone into and around the back" suggest that the singer is struggling with intense emotional turmoil and is experiencing a fragmentation of their sense of self. The following line, "I don't have any feelings, only some of servitude" further emphasizes the singer's sense of detachment and suggests that they feel more like a slave to their emotions than a conscious participant in them.
The rest of the lyrics continue in a similar vein, with the singer expressing disgust and disdain towards other people, whom they see as "sickening" and "only sinking and deprived." The line, "You know you're a mistake, all of you feeling nothing but to take" is particularly striking, as it suggests that the singer believes that other people only exist to take from them, rather than to give.
Overall, the lyrics to Don't Touch Me portray a sense of deep isolation and disillusionment, with the singer seemingly unable to connect with others or find any meaning or purpose in their life.
Line by Line Meaning
Wretched feeling and feeling split
Feeling miserable and torn apart inside
gone into and around the back
Overwhelmed by emotions that are difficult to face
I don't have any feelings, only some of servitude
Feeling numb and disconnected, with a sense of obligation
cringing, crying, awake
Feeling uncomfortable, emotional and unable to sleep
don't look at me or anything
Avoiding any kind of social interaction
Volatile, simple minded, only sinking and deprived
Feeling unstable, unable to focus, and lacking in basic needs
You know you're a mistake
Addressing someone who is causing pain and regret
all of you feeling nothing but to take
Believing that others are only interested in exploiting the situation for their own gain
braking fingers, needing splints
Feeling broken and injured
all of you, i don't like you, i don't need
Expressing disgust and rejection towards those who contribute to the painful situation
don't touch me you're sickening
Refusing physical contact due to intense discomfort and disgust
Contributed by Alexis B. Suggest a correction in the comments below.